Warwick University Jobs – Procurement Manager

Job Description:

To support the University’s procurement function in the provision of an efficient and responsive service, in relation to project and commodity based procurement.

Job Responsibilities:

• Review contracts and licence agreements to identify and address risks prior to submission for senior colleague review.
• Contract Negotiation:
• Undertake routine negotiations to ensure commercially optimum contracts, mitigating financial and legal risk (for example total cost analysis, management of payment terms, import, currency, liability and IPR risks).
• Lead ongoing contract management of operational agreements to ensure benefits realisation, effective supplier performance management and exploit innovative opportunities from the supply chain.
• Cross Functional Process Improvements:
• Category/Project Strategies:
• Develop, implement and monitor routine category / capital project procurement strategies to achieve strict savings targets / budgets, timescales.
• Support achievement of Procurement Office KPIs operating within the defined Category Management framework, across spend areas of up to circa £10M p.a.
• Ensure procurement recommendations and continuous improvement initiatives support the University’s strategic goals.
• Produce and present reports and KPIs analysis.
• Competitive Procurement Processes:
• Plan, lead and award routine procurement processes, contracts and framework agreements to achieve optimum savings, value for money and timescales.
• Comply with the University’s financial regulations ensuring good governance across procurement activities in compliance with statutory obligations.
• Ensure funding conditions are met and procurement is conducted with full and compliant audit trails. Where required, comply with the Public Contracts Regulations.
• Support stakeholders in the development of routine specifications for incorporation into market engagements and tender exercises.
• Manage cross functional project teams / Category Improvement Groups / formal process improvement groups (for example the University’s Simplify, Collaborate, Deliver Programme) across a variety of stakeholder groups predominantly at operational level to support implementation of optimum procurement solutions.
• Support the change process.
• Stakeholder Engagement:
• Designated Procurement link to one or more operational departments, undertake procurement activity and provide advice to predominantly operational members of staff. Facilitate greater visibility of the procurement pipeline.
• Build effective collaborative relationships with departments, promote a responsive, agile and professional image of the Procurement Office.
• Work on a collaborative basis with external bodies (e.g. other HEIs, funders, consortia).
• Support the Office’s overall training programme through dissemination of procurement best practice across the wider University.
• Staff Management and Development:
• Support the development of more junior team members.
• Where applicable, manage one or more junior members of staff.

Job Requirements:

• Essential Criteria 6Experience of managing and delivering successful events (a, c)Essential Criteria
• Essential Criteria 1Educated to Degree level or equivalent (a)Essential Criteria 2Significant experience in a marketing role (a, c)
• Essential Criteria 3Knowledge and experience of marketing and communication strategies and plans, and measuring against KPIs (a, c, d
• Essential Criteria 4Knowledge and demonstrated experience of digital marketing to reach and connect with markets e.g., developing social media campaigns, producing videos or other digital assets (a, c)
• Essential Criteria
• Essential Criteria 8Experience of delivering marketing campaigns (a, c, d)
• Essential Criteria 9Experience of working with external agencies (a, c)Essential Criteria 10Effective time management skills and project management experience (a, c)Essential Criteria
• A good working knowledge of PCs and their processes and procedures, including standard software and design packages

Qualification & Experience:

• This is measured by (a) Application Form, (b) Test/Exercise, (c) Interview, (d) Presentation.
• Experience of websites including experience of using content management systems, web editing and some SEO knowledge (a, c)
• Experience of developing and writing content for a variety of channels e.g., web, brochures, campaigns (a, b, c)
• The Person Specification focuses on the knowledge, skills, experience and qualifications required to undertake the role effectively.

Job Details:

Company: University Of Warwick

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: Coventry, England

Application Deadline: N/A