Category Officer Remote
Job description
Category Officer.
Salary: c£30,300 per annum.
Location: Homebased.
Contract: Permanent.
Benefits: 29 days annual leave pro rata PLUS bank holidays, excellent training and development opportunities, flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages, up to 7% employer contribution pension, discount portal with your favourite brands.
Closing Date: Tuesday 20th June 2023.
Interviews will be conducted week commencing 26th June 2023.
Why Action for Children?
Wherever you work in the Action for Children family, you'll be helping to change the lives of the most vulnerable children in the UK.
Working here is more than a job. Everyone in the Action for Children family is passionate about protecting and supporting children. It's the sense of purpose that drives us every single day.
A bit about the role
The successful candidate will provide strategic procurement activities to maximise efficiencies to enable resources to be redirected to the children, young people, and families who we support.
How you'll help to create brighter futures
- Contribute to all stages of the tender procurement process, achieved through compiling and maintaining documentation for procurement processes, advertisement preparation, contract award and ongoing management of the contracts.
- Apply professional procurement practices, informed through the latest developments and efficiencies in the field of procurement.
- Capture key performance data to monitor and inform supplier performance.
- Produce scheduled and ad-hoc compliance management.
- Retain the central register of main contracts as well as other appropriate databases for key suppliers and main contractors.
- Ensure adequate arrangements are in place for an effective meeting i.e., online/ venue organisation, minuting, follow up action and agenda creation etc.
- Contribute and influence effective and efficient procurement practice across the organisation.
Let's talk about you
- Willingness to work to achieve Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply qualification (CIPS).
- Experience across procurement and/or supply chain management within a complex organisation.
- Experience managing effective relationships with suppliers across a range of goods and services, including demonstrable negotiation skills.
- Experience in supporting procurement with tender process.
- Working cross functionally, demonstrating collaborative and engagement skills and experience.
- Effective team player and capable of working without regular supervision.
Good to know
Application Process
There are five sections to complete: Personal Details, CV, Supporting Statement & Information, Equality & Diversity, Submission & Declaration.
Talent Pool
We know talent when we see it. But sometimes we find the right person but not for the right job. We'd love to keep your details for when the right job comes up. Let us know if you'd rather we didn't.
Contact: David Simpson on 01923 361 732 or email [email protected] for further information.
Diversity, equality, and inclusion
At Action for Children, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic, and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children.
Don't meet every single requirement?
If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with the job description, we'd love you to apply anyway. You might just be the perfect person for this role, or another role within the Action for Children family.
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