Senior Procurement & Contract Management Advisor

6 Months Contract

Full-Time, Temporary – 36.25 hours per week.

We are delighted to be supporting Basildon Council to recruit Senior Procurement & Contract Management Advisor on a full-time, temporary basis.

Due to the nature of this role, the successful candidate will be required to be on-site a minimum of 1 day per week.

Responsible for supporting the organisation in developing and delivering a range of service projects through robust business cases and detailed commercial programmes and plans.

The Commercial programme is directly linked to the Council’s Medium Term Financial Strategy and the post holder provides strong financial governance; as well as tracking progress and key dependencies, maintaining issue logs, projects plans and ensuring robust risk management.

Programmes and projects may be cross cutting within the organisation and with external parties.

• To provide the Senior Leadership Team and elected members with updates on the Commercial Agenda.
• To provide commercial view on procurement opportunities, ongoing contract management and contract reviews across the Council.
• To lead the development of robust contract management framework throughout the authority..
• To lead in activities during the procurement of relevant goods, works and services in accordance with contract procedure rules and management of contracts.
• To undertake all aspects of prog...