Overview
Procurement Manager – PE28 4YE
Our Benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…
- A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
- Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
- Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
- Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
- Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
- Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
- Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
- Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
- An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes
Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.
About the role
The Procurement Manager works in the Council’s Procurement and Commercial Team, having responsibility for a range of procurements valued over £100,000. The post holder will be responsible for delivering compliant procurements which achieve value for money and high quality outcomes.
The Procurement Team work on a hybrid basis, from home or at our purpose-built, state of the art offices in Alconbury Weald. We get together at least a couple of times a month for collaborative working and when required (if you’d prefer to work in the office more regularly, you’re able to do so). Additional face-to-face time in the office will be provided to support with your induction, training and development. There may also be the occasional requirement to travel around the County and beyond to meet the requirements of our clients.
Although mainly working remotely, the team are in frequent contact with each other and always available to talk to; we have a very friendly, encouraging working environment and new starters have always commented on how welcome and settled they have been made to feel.
Interviews will be held at New Shire Hall, Alconbury Weald, early August 2025.
For more information or to chat about this opportunity please contact Mark Parker on 07824 811999, email mark.parker@cambridgeshire.gov.uk.
About you
This is a busy role dealing with multiple stakeholders, so you should be able to effectively manage your time and workload to prioritise and deliver to deadlines as agreed with your line manager.
The ability to communicate effectively and influence stakeholders at various levels is key, as you’ll need to build collaborative working relationships, to understand and support the needs of the services this element of the team supports. This role will be supporting colleagues predominantly within the Corporate and IT categories covering areas such as IT hardware / software, HR, Finance, Insurance, amongst others.
You’ll be confident with MS Office and able to learn new IT systems (we provide support and guidance documents), specifically our e-tendering system ProContract.
If you feel you have relevant transferable skills, please do apply as we will always take this into account when shortlisting.
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers
