Procurement Manager
About Our Client
A brilliant public sector organisation who are driving forward the Welsh Government's vision of a high-quality, safe, integrated, affordable, and accessible transport network that the people of Wales are proud of.
We are here to make sustainable travel a natural choice and to help combat the climate emergency.
We want people to trust and believe in us and commit to changing their behaviour, travelling more sustainably and doing their bit for all our futures. The multimodal, integrated transport network We're building will enable people to do this.
Whether it's public transport, walking, wheeling or cycling, we want to make sustainable travel not only the right thing to do, but also an easier thing to do.
We're dedicated to creating a network of home-grown talent in Wales that promises to keep our communities thriving. We work with our suppliers to maximise investment in the skills, development and well-being of their staff and suppliers
When we buy goods and services, works and utilities, we do so in a way that achieves value for money and exploits the opportunity to achieve wider benefits for people, the economy and the environment. This approach to sustainable and ethical procurement sets out to meet the guidelines set by the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act.
We're working closely with community groups, voluntary organisations and social enterprises to ensure that local communities are consulted and involved in transport developments. This includes procurement activity and making better social and community use of stations.
As part of our Station Social and Commercial Development Plan, we've appointed Community Ambassadors to liaise with an expanded network of community rail partnerships. They're engaging with local communities to identify projects to bring redundant space back in to use.
Job Description
Category Management & Sourcing
Creation and leading of a category management group to drive the category and sourcing strategy through:
- Development of one, three- and five-year category plans, to include plan for individual sourcing projects, identified
- Scheduling and running regular category review meetings with key stakeholders.
- Continually develop functional expertise and category knowledge ensuring it is utilised across the business to
improve business performance.
Sourcing
Leading the development of sourcing strategies to achieve annual savings by working with stakeholders to ensure
strategies meet the business needs by:- Managing the delivery of spend analysis and supply market research.
- Developing a portfolio of market intelligence.
- Developing specifications for commodities, products, and services.
- Drafting Pre-Qualification Questionnaires, Invitation to Tenders and other tender documentation.
- Running tender evaluation and the supplier selection processes.
- Ensuring the invited suppliers understand and comply with restrictions associated with supply; and
- Ensuring the tender process complies with Transport for Wales Policies and Procedures.Supplier Relationship Management
- Accountable for managing relationships with key suppliers within the category, leading supplier relationships and
- Generating opportunities to serve better; and
- Managing risk to supply and costs.
Demand Management
Identify opportunities to reduce cost by agreed objectives through effective management of demand through policy and
buying behaviour by:- Reviewing category spend monthly looking for spend peaks and investigating unusually high spend.
- Identifying and reducing maverick spend to consolidate all category spend to the designate supplier(s); and
- challenging and re-engineering specifications where appropriate.
Contract Management
Leading the contract management responsibility for the category area, including:the development of SLAs and KPIs which will form the basis of contract management and monitoring thus:
- Ensuring the availability of data to support supplier performance reporting and reviews.
- Ensuring suppliers continue to deliver best value by actively benchmarking against identified and approved
- Negotiating any contract changes
- Experience working in a regulated procurement environment with an understanding of public sector regulations
- Experience of delivering on procurement projects with competitive tender processes
- Supplier relationship management experience
- Competent with multiple procurements
- Stakeholder Management experience
- CIPS qualified, qualified though experience or willing to complete CIPS
- Basic Salary between £43,000 - £47,300
- Free Train Travel for all employees (free rail pass for your partner if you live with them also)
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- 11.79% employer pension contribution
- Support with CIPS qualifications
- Hybrid working - 2 days in office, 3 days from home