Procurement Officer

Salary: Career Graded 4-8 £26,106 – £39,372

Location: Agile, Forth Banks Police Station and homeworking

Hours/Contract: 37 hours per week, permanent

The role

Here at Northumbria Police, we think our region is amazing! It takes a great deal of people from different backgrounds, with diverse skills and experience to serve our force area effectively, think you have what it takes to help us make a difference? This could be the perfect time for you to join us in our Procurement Department as a Procurement Officer.

As a Procurement Officer you will be responsible for procurement activities, specifically acquiring licences, software, goods and services on behalf of the Digital Policing (IT) Department within the Force, ensuring an effective and efficient procurement service that supports the Force’s operational and strategic priorities is delivered.

The role is agile working and will require you to work from our office located at Forth Banks, Newcastle City Centre one day a week as a minimum. You may be required to attend other on-site meetings, at various locations, as and when required to meet business needs.

What you’ll do

• Develop business cases, risk assessments, project plans, specifications, and evaluation criteria; prepare tender and contract documents in consultation with stakeholders to ensure compliance with current regulations, legislation, and procurement best practices.
• Research markets and available suppliers to identify best value opportunities for the Force and ensure adequate competition.
• Provide professional procurement advice and guidance to the Force, suppliers, and other stakeholders in accordance with Force procurement policies.
• Represent the Force in contract negotiations for acquiring goods and services; administer the issuing and return of tenders and quotations to enable the selection of the most suitable providers.
• Liaise closely with all stakeholders within your specific category/portfolio to ensure smooth operation of procurement and subsequent contract management.
• Manage a portfolio of contracts, ensuring they are let in accordance with agreed timescales, reviewed to monitor quality and performance, delivery of KPIs, compliance with DE&I legislation, and promotion of social value.

What you’ll bring

• Currently working towards CIPS certification, or demonstrable experience of working within procurement at a comparable level.
• Excellent personal planning skills along with the ability to manage multiple work streams, at different stages of development simultaneously.
• Be able to demonstrate good examples of effective problem solving through working examples.
• The ability to either work as team or as an individual to complete multiple work streams.
• Be able to communicate clearly and confidently, both written and verbally, with peers and senior management.

We know it’s important for you to feel that you’re not only part of a great team, but part of a community. We welcome applications from suitably qualified people from all sections of the community, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.

Harnessing these differences creates a productive environment in which everyone feels valued, and their talents are fully utilised. Appointments are based on merit alone.

Interested to learn more? For further information about the role please contact Hayley Bradford, Head of Procurement by email at [email protected]

Just so you know

Our application form will help us understand how your work, education and life experience has prepared you for the role of a Procurement Officer with #TeamNP. To help support your application research what makes us tick here at Northumbria, the role you’re applying for and the values and behaviours that contribute.

The recruitment process will consist of the initial application form followed by a face-to-face interview. Just so you know, you can save your application and come back to it any time prior to the closing date on the advert.

We are proud members of the Business Disability Forum, with whom we collaborate with to improve the lives of disabled employees. We are also a Disability Confident Employer, therefore if you demonstrate that you meet the minimum criteria for this role as stated in the advert, we will progress your application and offer you an interview.

If you tell us that you have a disability, we can make adjustments to support you through the recruitment process (for example we can arrange extra time for tests or provide a sign language interpreter) You can get in touch with us via [email protected] for any support regarding the application process. Please provide us with plenty of notice so we can ensure your visit goes smoothly.

If your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a Management Vetting (MV) form, therefore you must be a resident of the UK for a minimum period of 5 years to ensure vetting checks can be successfully performed. A job offer will be dependent upon vetting clearance, medical information, and references.

Terms of appointment

This is a permanent role subject to a six-month probationary period.

If you are successful in your application, you will have a six-month probation period with us where you will be unable to apply for any other post advertised internally or externally.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

“Internal candidates with priority status will be given precedence for this role over other applicants.”