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Social Value Procurement Technician

Employer
Value Match Services Ltd
Location
Chelmsford, Essex
Salary
up to £48,001
Closing date
5 Nov 2021

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Specialist Area
Procurement
Job Level
Analyst, Consultant, Specialist
Sector
Consultancy, Public Sector
Contract Type
Interim, contract and temporary
Hours
Full Time
CIPS Membership
CIPS member

Job Details

Value Match are supporting a Local Government customer to appoint a Social Value Procurement Technician on a 6 month fixed term contract with a salary of up to £48,001. This role will be a hybrid role of home working with requirement to be in the Chelmsford office occasionally throughout the contract.

The role of the Social Value team is to work with Procurement staff, stakeholders and suppliers to ensure they understand social value, how to approach it in ECC tenders and how to maximise potential for the benefit of Essex residents. Advocacy and ambassadorship are important aspects of the team’s roles as well as subject matter expertise, procedural advice and effective decision-making support.

The candidate will lead research, options development and options appraisal for workstreams under the social value programme. Effective collaboration within multidisciplinary teams will be needed along with supporting the development of colleagues both within procurement and across the Authority.

Please apply if you have the following skills and experience:

 

  • Educated to degree level with a relevant professional qualification such as MCIPS or equivalent demonstrable work experience with evidence of continuing professional development.
  • Knowledge of category management or its sales equivalents and experience of using this methodology in complex commercial environments to deliver significant cost or service improvements.
     
  • Knowledge of social value and experience of implementing social value in tenders (in a procurement or sales context) in complex commercial environments to deliver significant cost or service improvements
     
  • Evidence of some experience of managing change projects at an organisation-wide level.
     
  • Evidence of some experience of delivering continuous improvements in strategic arrangements with evidence of generating significant cost and service benefits.
     
  • Evidence of some knowledge of contract law and legislation relevant to social value and its impact on market management, finance and contractual arrangements.
     
  • Extensive knowledge of public sector procurement law with an ability to explain the law to non-procurement staff and find pragmatic solutions to potential complex legal scenarios.

Company

Through our people and relationships Value Match applies our procurement expertise to enhance the value created in our communities and environment. We work with customers, candidates, suppliers, and other stakeholders to put understanding of value and the creation of value at the core of the solutions and services we offer. At Value Match we are always conscious of creating value for people, relationships, community, and environment. We are able to do this through the services we offer, the causes we support and through the Value Match Foundation, you can read about these in our community stories.

Value Match provides a complete solution to meet the procurement needs of all organisations and support suppliers to successfully bid into procurement. We have 4 service lines:

Resourcing – Matching talent with opportunity.
Consultancy – Matching expertise with purpose.
Training – Matching capability with knowledge
Bid Management – Matching suppliers with buyers

Value Match Resourcing

  1. We are focused on providing a people centric service that meets candidates and customers needs, ensures cultural, capability and aspirational alignment
  2. We are procurement professionals who are able to provide specialist procurement, programme management or analytical interim or permanent resourcing
  3. A flexible managed service that can be a blend of permanent, interim or consulting resources to meet customers changing needs over time
  4. Procurement resources with experience and knowledge of embedding social, economic and environmental consideration into procurement strategies and operations
Company info
Website
Telephone
0800 917 7884
Location
Dee House, Dee Banks
Chester
Cheshire
CH3 5UU
GB

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