Procurement Business Partner

Procurement Business Partner; London OR West Yorkshire; 5 months; £280/day

My client, a government organisation is looking to recruit a Procurement Business Partner in either London or West Yorkshire. The role of the Procurement Business Partner is to identify and develop commercial opportunities and manage the directorate/procurement relationship. Need to have experience in sourcing and the ability to build excellent relations across departments within the business.

Responsibilities:
*Providing procurement insight and input into the development of business strategy, including responsibility for the delivery of procurement strategy, in line with operational business needs
*Supporting managers in enhancing business performance through improving the performance, capability and motivation of its people
*Provide the procurement expertise to projects
*Identifying and own procurement best practice on behalf of the business.

Key Accountabilities and Outcomes
*To understand directorate commercial business requirements, embed commercial and procurement concepts within business planning activities and develop/plan a procurement pipeline of immediate and longer term opportunities
*To promote the profession, provide a wide range of commercial/procurement advice, both strategic and operational in nature, and manage relevant Business Case approval processes to minimise/remove the volume of non-compliance to departmental policies and processes
*To work with internal and external stakeholders including other corporate Business Partners to maximise efficiencies and provide a seamless value adding service to directorates
*To develop and indirectly manage Buying Co-ordinators, or staff with similar responsibilities, and up skill directorate resource in understanding the impact of their activities in areas such as responses to PQs/FOIs through Management Information
*Comply with Civil Service policies and procedures, including ensuring any requests for input into Freedom of Information Requests and Parliamentary Questions are handled robustly and accurately
*Occasional travel mainly between London and West Yorkshire

Qualifications:
*Ideally, post holders should have full graduate membership of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply (MCIPS).

Security Clearance
*BPSS (DS) - Baseline Personnel Security Standard (with a Disclosure Scotland)