Head of Procurement

Role: Head of Procurement

Salary: Starting £70,000

Sector: Public

Location: Uxbridge (3 days office, 2 days home)

Job Type: Full-time

Qualification: MCIPS or FCIPS

The role involves streamlining procurement processes, coordinating with technical, marketing, finance, and IT teams, and managing a team to achieve strategic procurement goals.

• Develop and implement a rolling ten-year procurement strategy, ensuring market leadership in public sector construction procurement.
• Manage day-to-day delivery of procurement programmes, ensuring regulatory compliance and maintaining a clear audit trail.
• Coordinate procurement activities from development to tender evaluation, award, and mobilisation.
• Provide expert advice and support to regional business units (RBUs) and ensure procurement needs are fully understood and catered for.
• Develop and maintain relationships with key personnel in RBUs, appointed companies, and potential suppliers.
• Recruit, train, and performance manage procurement personnel.
• Represent the organisation at procurement workshops and network events.

Requirements

• Experience in preparing, publishing, and reviewing public documentation (e.g., OJEU).
• Proven experience as a Procurement Professional within the public sector
• Detailed knowledge of contractual frameworks, legislative and statutory requirements relating to property, construction, and procurement.
• Experience in developing multi-user, multi-supplier frameworks.
• Knowledge of implementing a dynamic purchasing system (desirable).
• Degree level education (desirable).
• Highly disciplined, process-driven, and able to work to tight deadlines.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Numerate, IT literate, and commercially astute.

If this sounds like the ideal role for you, apply directly or drop your CV to lmccreight@venngroup.com