Procurement Manager

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

As the Procurement Manager you’ll work in the Council’s Procurement and Commercial Team, having responsibility for a range of procurements valued over £100,000. You 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 in the team.

The annual pay award for 2025/26 has not yet been agreed for this position.

Interviews will be held at New Shire Hall, Alconbury Weald, week commencing 6th October 2025.

For more information or to chat about this opportunity please contact Mark Parker via email mark.parker@cambridgeshire.gov.uk.

What will you be doing?

Main accountabilities for this role are:

To plan and deliver effective end to end procurement projects that are compliant with the Council’s Contract Procedure Rules, the Public Contract Regulations 2015 / Procurement Act 2023 / Provider Selection Regime 2023 and any other relevant legislation. This will involve interpretation of law and guidance to recommend relevant courses of action to service areas.

Acting as the subject matter expert, work proactively with service areas to ensure that procurement documentation and processes are fit for purpose. Work with Procurement and Commercial Team colleagues to develop documentation as required.

Prepare appropriate and quality procurement documentation using the templates available to ensure that procurement processes are transparent and proportionate.

Work with colleagues to develop and provide training to service areas on procurement requirements including evaluation processes.

Develop processes within the e-tendering system and use that system (and any other relevant systems) efficiently and effectively in delivering the role.

Develop and maintain an understanding of relevant supply markets to ensure that procurements are designed in a way which is most likely to achieve high quality outcomes.

Collaborate effectively as part of the wider Procurement and Commercial Team, taking on other relevant roles as needed to raise the profile of the Procurement and Commercial function at the Council.

Demonstrate an awareness and understanding of equality, diversity and inclusion.

Ability to contribute to our commitment of becoming a Net Zero organisation by 2030.

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 HR, Finance, Insurance, IT hardware / software 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.

If you feel you have relevant transferable skills, please do apply as we will always take this into account when shortlisting.