Procurement Specialist - STR07419

Job Description

Stirling Council seeks a Procurement Specialist to support the Corporate Procurement function through strategic and operational procurement activity, which delivers best value and benefit across city, towns and all communities in the council area. 

This role will require excellent creative thinking skills, problem solving skills, collaborative working skills and communication skills.  The post sits within the Corporate Procurement function and the post holder will report directly to one of the council’s Category Managers.  

Within this function, you will be part of a team of commercial and technical professionals delivering strategic sourcing activities for specific categories of spend, achieving best value and delivering on savings targets while maintaining/improving quality and service levels.

As a subject matter expert you will have the skills and relevant experience to support and monitor the council’s strategic commissioning and procurement activity efficiently and effectively. You will collaborate with a variety of internal and external stakeholders, ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, working within robust and transparent systems while maintaining strong relationships. Recognising the challenges that local authorities face you will support the team to meet increasing customer requirements and delivering business needs.

Joining this motivated, public value-focussed, specialist team, this career opportunity will allow you to contribute to the best delivery of vital services to Stirling’s residents.

Please note, if you are a Stirling Council employee you will be taken to Single Sign On. If you are an external application you may need to register and complete your details on our new Recruitment System - Oracle.

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The Benefits

• 30 days annual leave plus 7 public holidays (rising to 35 after 5 years continuous service
• Flexible working including hybrid office/work from home arrangements. Our colleagues are encouraged to work flexibly as we know that busy lives don’t always fit around a traditional working pattern, if you need flexibility to complete your role just let us know and we will do our upmost to help you to invest in your career with us while balancing other aspects of your life.
• Biennial incremental progression until top of your payscale is reached
• Membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme. For further details visit https://www.scotlgpsmember.org/about-the-lgps/
• Up to 6 months full sick pay and 6 months half pay dependent on length of service
• Carers Leave
• Up to 4 weeks paid Paternity Leave
• Access to Health & Wellbeing support
• Ongoing opportunities for Learning & Development
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Lift share Scheme
• Car Lease Scheme
• Technology Benefit Scheme

Requirements

The successful candidate will be required to complete a Basic Disclosure Scotland form. If your application is progressed after the interview, you will be invited to complete the form and have your details verified. It is Stirling Council policy to ask you pay for this.

If you’ve got the right skills for the job we want to hear from you. We encourage applications from the right candidates regardless of age (restrictions apply to Modern Apprenticeships), disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, belief or race.