Team Leader Accounts Payable & Procurement
£39,513 to £43,693
Rugby Borough Council is dedicated to both Community and Colleague growth. With a focus on wellbeing and personal development, we offer a range of career opportunities where you can take pride in the positive changes you help create. Join an organisation committed to the success of one of the Country’s fastest-growing boroughs and the people who make it thrive.
About the role
As our Team Leader Accounts Payable & Procurement you’ll be instrumental in ensuring that the Council delivers value for money in its procurement of goods, services and works and creates financial savings wherever possible. You’ll manage the accounts payable function including the line management of 2 members of staff, ensuring that processes in the function continue to develop in line with the ‘Financial Services’ service plan, as well as providing strategic and operational procurement guidance and consultancy advice to all Service Units.
About you
You will need to have experience of procurement in the Public Sector, with extensive experience of developing contracts and associated procedures in consultation with stakeholders. You’ll need experience of manipulating financial and statistical data to report on procurement trends, reviewing, developing and monitoring procurement policy and strategy, developing and delivering training programmes and be able to demonstrate knowledge on best practice in procurement and promote guidance and understanding in others.
Please see the linked Job Profile on our website for a more detailed overview.
Benefits- 35 days annual leave (including 8 Bank Holidays and 3 extra days normally applied at Christmas)
- Generous Local Government Pension Scheme
- Hybrid working up to 60%
- Flexi time scheme
- Annual leave purchase scheme
- Subsidised parking
- Structured Induction Program