What's involved with this role: Temporary Assistant Contracts Officer/Admin – Procurement Services Job Ref: Bradford 52555.....
What's involved with this role:
Temporary Assistant Contracts Officer/Admin – Procurement Services
Job Ref: Bradford 5255505
Pay Rate: Up to £17.59 per hour PAYE depending on experience
Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
Role Length: This opening assignment is for 3 months
City: Bradford, Yorkshire
The purpose of the role is to support all areas of work within the remit of the Strategic Contract Manager by providing support to the delivery of all the strategic contract management services provided across the Council which will include, but is not limited to, the preparation of data, information and reports.
Key Responsibilities:
Effective and efficient administration of contract management activities. Liaising with all stakeholders to ensure communication and governance processes, payment, performance and benefit realisation monitoring, and the initiation of remedial/improvement activity are executed properly, enabling reporting that the corporate contracts are on track to deliver the commissioned/procured goods and services.
Add value through procurement and deliver contract compliance in all contracting activity. The purpose is to improve cost effective supply arrangements, whilst maintaining customer service levels and compliance to Public Contracts Regulations and the Council’s Financial and Contract Standing Orders and Procurement Strategy.
Support the provision, and grow the current use of fit for purpose electronic tendering systems including e-catalogues and e-auctions, and information to support high quality procurement, supplier management and category management.
Participate in ‘future thinking’ and the development of E-Systems and e- processes that will drive forward increased efficiency and greater value for money from the Council’s procurement activities.
Support contract managers across the Council in all aspects of day-to-day contract management ensuring the set up and maintenance of the administrative arrangements for effective and efficient contract management are complied with, including stakeholder communication, governance, performance monitoring arrangements, payments and file/records management.
Conduct contractual monitoring, identifying and initiating remedies for data quality issues to support the provision of assurance of service delivery in line with strategy and contract and report on compliance and delivery performance.
Maintain accurate and up to date logs of issues, risks, change controls, actions and meeting minutes, ensure that actions are followed up in a timely fashion.
Contribute to the development of contract management manuals where appropriate.
Ensure payments are accurate and reflect agreed performance/payment mechanisms.
Qualifications:
CIPS Level 4 Diploma.
Skills & Experience:
Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
2 years’ experience delivering contract management and procurement advice to internal stakeholders.
Able to monitor performance to ensure value for money is being delivered through the contracts / service level agreements, supporting effective management of the Council’s resources.
Able to monitor contractor compliance with relevant legislation, statutory duties and Council policies to manage risk appropriately.
Knowledge of professional purchasing principles, best practice approach to procurement and experience of working in multi-functional business environment.
Proven ability to plan and prioritise workload, prioritise, effectively communicate and manage expectations of the team you are supporting.
Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite, Adobe Pro).
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If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
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Job Ref: Bradford 5255505
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