Senior Procurement Officer

Job description

Full Time / 37 Hours Per Week / Permanent

Join our procurement team to become a key member of our fast-paced highly dynamic service, procuring a whole host of important and interesting contracts for goods works and services across a range of sectors.

If you an experienced procurement specialist looking to develop your career within a supportive environment and where continuous improvement is key, then we would love to hear from you.

About the role

This is the perfect role to use your expertise of procurement, tendering and contract management processes, as well as knowledge of contract law, to drive value for money and ensure procurement supports the delivery of our corporate priorities. You'll be involved in and influence a range of critical procurement projects, providing expert advice and responding to complex queries. You'll lead on procurement activity more independently including those of higher value and higher complexity, managing communications with suppliers and working with legal specialists.

As the Senior Procurement Officer, you'll coach, support and supervise junior members of the team, playing an active role in their growth and progression. This includes providing guidance on best practices, sharing technical knowledge, offering constructive feedback and helping them build the skills and confidence needed to succeed within the procurement function.

About you

You'll be highly organised, with the ability to prioritise time and objectives. With strong analytical skills you'll be able to review information presented within tender responses and evaluations to identify the best value. In addition, you'll have excellent communication skills, ability to present statistical or technical reports and liaise with both internal and external stakeholders. Using proficient IT skills you'll be able to use and manage our IT tendering systems for advertising contracts.

You'll have knowledge and experience relevant to a specific category specialism, e.g., Goods, Works and Services, including Procurement Act 2023 training (TPP) or commitment to complete this within 4 weeks of starting. The roles are subject to a DBS check and Right to Work check. We are unable to offer sponsorship with this role.

About us

We recognise the importance of balancing work and home life and offer a range of flexibility in hybrid working being both office-based or working remotely from home to suit your needs and those of your clients. The team currently attends City Hall for a minimum of two days a week, where you will join them.

You'll enjoy generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexible working. In addition, you can choose from several flexible benefits, including discounts on city buses. For an illustrative value of your benefits package, take a look at our benefits calculator.

Join us

We're committed to recruiting a diverse and highly talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. That's why we've designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. We'll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible. To help you with your application, take a look at the 'our approach to recruitment' page.

For a chat about this post please contact [email protected] or [email protected]

Interview/Assessments will take place on the 12th, 13th and/or 14th October 2026