Interim Procurement Officer

Reference no: Barnet RQ792904

Pay Rate: £161.11 per day PAYE

A Procurement Officer is required to work within a defined procurement and financial control framework to ensure controls are in place and adhered to, in support of all procurement related processes.

Where required, with support, to take a lead on delivering the end-to-end procurement process for routine procurements and/or lead specific policy/system/training initiatives.

Key responsibilities:

• Work with the external procurement providers to ensure queries are dealt with efficiently and effectively.
• Work with internal and external customers to ensure queries are dealt with efficiently and effectively.
• Be the welcoming response to clients / contractors and signposting them to the correct area of the Procurement Service.
• Processing of supplier set up requests.
• Support the commissioning of goods and services and the management of tendering processes and negotiations, including both revenue and capital procurement.
• Provide excellent support for financial system modules, including Supplier Master record maintenance.
• Support contract management processes, including catalogue maintenance, contract register and contract management system.
• Provide information for contract spend and other management reports, as and when required.
• Help the Head of Procurement in achieving objectives and ongoing improvement.
• Identification of problem areas, providing analysis and suggestions on issue resolution.
• Provide procurement advice and support to officers and other members of the team.
• Provide advice to departments on processes to achieve increased efficiency and compliance to the organisation.
• Understand procurement and finance processes and financial system in connections with procurement functions and systems.

“Role Requirements” – to give yourself the maximum chance of success please try and ensure your CV addresses the following essential criteria:

Experience:

• Successful track record in delivering high quality customer focused procurement and supplies services.
• Demonstrable experience of managing Purchasing & Supplies departments including building staff capacity and capability.

Knowledge:

• Knowledge of how an Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Income Management System and Accounting to Reporting processes work.
• Understanding of public procurement processes and financial transactions.
• Knowledge of accounting principles, policies, and practices.

Skills/Technical skills:

• Within a pre-determined framework, able to process work to ensure that it is delivered on time and to the agreed quality standards.
• Ability to use specialist information systems and contract management systems by producing reports using multiple criteria and extract and reuse data in Microsoft Office products, data maintenance and manipulation.

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If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.