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Person specification
Experience
Skills/Aptitudes/Competences • A high standard of written, oral, influencing and communication skills including negotiating, contracting and commercial awareness. (Essential) • Excellent communication skills across a range of audiences both within the University and externally. (Essential) • Excellent networking and liaison skills. (Essential) • Ability to forward plan over significant timescales. (Essential) • Excellent teamwork skills, actively involves colleagues across the business, builds the benefits of collaborative working. (Essential) • Excellent analytic and data analysis skills. (Essential) • Excellent IT skills, including the use of MS Office. (Essential) • Good presentation skills. (Essential) • Use of Parabilis (electronic purchase ordering) or similar. (Desirable) • Use of In-Tend (electronic tendering) or similar. (Desirable)
Qualifications/Education/Training
• Experience of working in the Higher Education Sector. (Desirable) • Experience of sourcing and contract management of corporate categories such as IT, HR, Legal Services. (Desirable) • Experience of sustainable procurement across a range of products. (Desirable) • Good working knowledge of procurement processes in the Private Sector. (Desirable) • Detailed knowledge of UK Public Procurement Regulations (Desirable)
• Significant experience and use of procurement systems. (Essential) • Strong working knowledge of procurement processes in the Public Sector. (Essential) • Experience of implementing/working under category management- based approaches. (Essential) • Experience of tendering and managing high value contracts under UK Public Procurement Regulations , including contracts which exceed £1m. (Essential) • Experience of implementing best practice contract and supplier management. (Essential) • Proven track record of working in an environment with complex customer needs. (Essential) • Evidence of the ability to influence and win the trust of senior management in a complex and functionally devolved organisation. (Essential) • Experience of leading and developing staff within a procurement environment. (Essential) • Significant recent experience of procurement at a senior professional/ strategic level. (Essential)
• Qualified procurement professional (MCIPS). (Essential)
• IT qualification, for example ECDL, CLAIT.(Desirable)
• Projects IN Controlled Environments (PRINCE2) (Desirable)
Other
• Willingness to learn and develop.
• Ability to always demonstrate confidentiality and diplomacy.
• Demonstrable commitment to CPD
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