Job Description

The Royal Borough of Greenwich is transforming its approach to procurement. Like all local authorities the Council is under increasing financial pressure. Everything it does and delivers must ensure best value for money including the external services which it procures. The Council also recognises the impact which these services can have on residents’ lives and so has implemented a new strategy to establish social value as a core procurement principle to ensure that every one of its service achieves the best possible outcome for residents across the borough. The Council’s procurement team will play the central role in guiding and advising other departments to achieve those twin objectives of achieving social value and value for money from all its procurement exercises. Operational work for the Procurement Team is split into three categories, People, Place and Resources. Each category has a Category Lead, one or two Category Managers and one or two Procurement Officers. The Procurement Officer will report to the Category Lead for the team in which they are based, and will support the team as well as provide procurement advice and guidance to individual directorates within the Council to ensure that they deliver effective procurement exercises which seek social value outcomes and value for money within a procurement regulatory environment. The Procurement Officers will initially be responsible for delivering individual workstreams within a procurement exercise with the breadth of their responsibility and if not already qualified, be seeking qualified status and membership in Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS)