Senior Procurement Officer

In this critical role, you will champion the core purpose of public procurement: transforming public funds into high-quality goods and services, that support social and economic progress. You will ensure maximum value for money while upholding the highest standards of transparency, fairness, and legal compliance. Beyond managing day-to-day commercial operations, you will leverage our purchasing power as a force for goodintegrating sustainable practices, fostering fair competition, and supporting small and local businesses to deliver meaningful, lasting value to the Senedd.

The post-holder will report to the Procurement Manager.

Key tasks:

• Provide a strategic input into the development of contracts and their on-going management through the development of appropriate Procurement Strategies.
• Deliver value for money savings from contracts that have been developed against clearly defined contract strategies.
• Develop strong and effective working relationships with service managers, customers and suppliers alike. And network effectively with other procurement functions such as Welsh Government Commercial Delivery (WGCD).
• Undertake procurement sustainability / equality risk assessments ensuring that our procurement is as sustainable as it can be.
• Provide professional procurement expertise to multi-functional project teams delivering value for money through the application of best practice procurement techniques.
• Use interpersonal and influencing skills to gain commitment to new approaches benefiting the Senedd.
• Review and influence contractor performance to ensure continuous improvement in support of the Senedds objectives.
• Manage tender processes. Ensuring consistency and compliance with appropriate policies and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Develop and maintain commercial and market intelligence to support the identification of opportunities and manage risk in both existing and future contracts.
• A key element of the role is the achievement of enhanced commercial awareness within the Senedd through the promotion of best practice procurement principles.

Job Specific criteria:

1. As a minimum Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS) Level 4 Diploma in Procurement & Supply. 
2. The post-holder will have strong analytical skills and a good appreciation of the full range of modern procurement tools and techniques.  
3. Well-developed interpersonal skills and the ability to influence and persuade. Confident and effective communicator. 

Desirable criteria:

The following qualities are not essential for this particular post but have been deemed as desirable. These will only be taken into account in the event of two (or more) candidates acquiring the same score at either application or interview stage.

1. Working knowledge of Bravo Solutions e-tendering system.

Welsh language criteria:

The language skills for this post have been assessed Courtesy Level Welsh.

Candidates should have the ability to:

• pronounce Welsh names, answer the phone and respond to simple greetings;
• understand very simple phrases and greetings;
• read very short and simple phrases, or able to interpret content using the technology available; and
• write very simple phrases and greetings

If the successful candidate does not possess these skills, they will be expected to commit to learn them during an agreed period. For further information on the Welsh language levels, please visit our website.