Assistant Procurement Manager

Do you want to join a nationally award-winning Procurement Team? At the West Midlands Combined Authority, our team has been recognised as Procurement Team of the Year at the GO Awards 2024/25 and, most recently, won the 2026 CIPS Excellence in Procurement & Supply Award for Best Initiative to Build a Diverse Supply Base. These achievements reflect our commitment to delivering innovative, responsible procurement that creates opportunities for businesses, supports our communities and ensures public money delivers real value for the West Midlands.

As Assistant Procurement Manager, you will play an important role in helping us build on this success. Our Growth Plan sets out an ambitious vision for a stronger, more prosperous region, and effective procurement is essential to making that ambition a reality. Working across infrastructure and corporate services, you will support and manage procurement activity that helps WMCA secure the goods, services and partnerships needed to deliver its priorities.

From managing tender processes to working with stakeholders and suppliers, your work will help ensure procurement decisions are compliant, commercially sound and deliver meaningful value for the organisation and the region.

• Lead and support procurement activity across infrastructure and corporate services, managing allocated procurements from initial planning through to contract award.
• Develop and implement procurement processes that support business priorities, deliver value for money, encourage innovation and establish robust contractual arrangements.
• Manage tendering activity, including supplier engagement, preparing tender documentation, evaluating submissions, bid clarifications, award recommendations and supplier debriefs.
• Work closely with internal stakeholders, suppliers, Legal, Finance and framework providers to coordinate procurement activity, provide advice and ensure requirements are delivered within agreed timescales.
• Maintain accurate procurement records, trackers and governance documentation, ensuring compliance with relevant procurement legislation, WMCA policies, financial regulations and approval processes.
• Monitor and report on procurement progress, identify risks and opportunities for collaboration or savings, and support continuous improvement across procurement processes and systems.

• Purchasing/Procurement processes is essential; demonstrates experience of leading purchasing processes and supporting on tender processes; formuluating Invitation to Tender documentation, evaluating tender responses, undertaking bid conditioning and bid clarification, debrief of suppliers, awarding contracts, managing supplier relationships.
• Experience of advising and influencing senior management to accept procedures, systems, governance and methods of working.
• Experience of working effectively with stakeholders to achieve and communicate shared goals.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities under pressure, trouble-shoot, and to meet short and long-term deadlines.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Able to effectively present information with a strong attention to detail.
• Effective time management skills and ability to work independently as well as a member of a cross‑functional team is essential.

For a full list of duties and essential criteria, please refer to the job description attached.

The location for this role is 16 Summer Lane, Birmingham, B19 3SD
with at least 2 days a week spent in the office.

There may be a requirement to work outside normal office hours on occasion to meet work deadlines, attend meetings or work within stakeholder and partner offices across the WMCA constituent area.

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