Contracts Manager

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Are you an experienced Procurement professional with public sector experience?

Do you want to make a difference to the education sector?

Then we have an exciting role for you to work within a growing charity organisation.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Contracts Manager to join our growing organisation that is a certified "Great Place to Work". Great Place To Work is also proud to recognise Crescent Purchasing Consortium on the following Best Workplaces Lists.

The role is based within the Contracting Team at Crescent Purchasing Consortium (CPC). CPC is a purchasing consortium, owned and overseen by the Further Education sector. CPC provides purchasing frameworks, dynamic purchasing systems and procurement consultancy services for schools, academies, colleges, universities and other educational organisations.

You will join the Contracting Team, which recently restructured into three broad categories, People, Place and Product. You will be responsible for, amongst other duties and assigned agreements, managing the complexity and demands of CPC's highly successful Building Cleaning and other associated "Place" related frameworks. The Building Cleaning framework is one of our strategically important services and will require you to manage any risk, relationships and service levels, so our members receive value for money.

CPC agreements cover a wide variety of supplies, works and services, and we aim to continue to develop this portfolio in line with our members' needs. CPC currently offers 88 unique agreements to its membership, which recently exceeded 10,000 institutions from across the UK education sector.

Reporting to Procurement Manager, you will be responsible for the delivery of the whole procurement cycle from business planning, pre-market engagement, end-to-end tendering, contract management, stakeholder engagement and managing the overall performance of the catering framework.

You will also provide mentoring support to the Senior Procurement Officers & Procurement Officers as well as providing a full and professional procurement service to all members, covering the acquisition of any goods or services under Framework Agreements and Dynamic Purchasing Systems (DPS).

Person Specification

We seek a candidate who has extensive procurement experience within the public sector. Ideally, you will have a detailed working knowledge of public sector procurement legislation and experience of working in the education sector. You can develop and tender high value framework and contracts and support members and clients to define requirements and set specifications. The ideal candidate will be able to support members and clients to determine contractual requirements and embed them into the tender and award process. Full membership of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (MCIPS) is highly desirable but candidates working towards CIPS or demonstrating suitable alternative qualifications and/or experience will be considered.

If you are a skilled and experienced procurement professional with the ability to deliver all aspects of this role, then we would love to hear from you.

Salary and Benefits

In return for your dedication to the role you will receive a salary between £38,000 - £45,000 FTE, dependant on experience. Additionally, you will be joining a charity which:

• Is owned and overseen by the Further Education sector, with a great charity ethos and a developed programme of 'giving back' to the communities in which it is based and which it supports.
• Offers a discretionary annual bonus of up to £3,000.
• Offers 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays and an additional three days' Christmas period closure).
• Offers the opportunity to join a Local Government Pension Scheme.
• Offers flexible and agile working patterns with homeworking opportunities. The successful candidate must be willing to work 2 days at the Head Office in Salford, with opportunities to reduce this to 1 day a week once they have settled in to the role.
• Free car parking is available within the grounds of the office and the office is a short walk from local transport links
• Provides a comprehensive induction through the initial probationary period, together with support for ongoing training & development, designed to help you be the best you can be
• Provides funding to achieve full MCIPS qualification and ongoing CIPS membership fees payment.
• Offers a comprehensive wellbeing support package, including a fully-funded EAP, mental health first-aid, and annual volunteering opportunities.

Next Steps

If the above sounds interesting, please click through to our careers site for further information about this role at www.thecpc.ac.uk/careers.

For more information on the role, please view the job description:

Contracts Manager JD.pdf

CPC is an Equal Opportunities Employer and committed to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at every level. We welcome and encourage all applications and we believe that having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values.

The closing date for written applications is 20th September 2024.