Senior Sourcing Solutions Specialist

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Job Description

Are you looking for an opportunity to join a forward thinking, flexible and supportive Procurement team, where you can build on your Procurement career? If so, we have some exciting opportunities for you.

Due to its successful track record, Orbis partnership is hiring Senior Sourcing Specialists to join their Sourcing Solutions Team. These roles will focus on providing procurement expertise, strong customer relationships skills and procurement project management knowledge.

The Senior Sourcing Specialist is a versatile role. Managing a range of procurement projects from the Procurement Hub across diverse services and supporting the existing team where required. Successful delivery of the role means supporting effective and efficient procurement solutions for the Hub and developing procurement skills.

Orbis Procurement is a shared services partnership between East Sussex County Council, Surrey County Council and Brighton & Hove City Council, delivering a strategic procurement service to the partners and a range of District and Borough Councils. Orbis Procurement manages a third party spend of more than £1.8bn with external suppliers, procuring everything from software to social care services, cleaning products to sports equipment. Above all, we aim to be a centre for procurement excellence by ensuring that we manage public money in a way people trust and deliver better value from our contracts in a responsible way.

The Sourcing Solutions & Strategic Procurement Teams in East Sussex, Surrey and Brighton & Hove work closely together, sharing knowledge, expertise and resource to best service our customer's needs.

We are looking for candidates who:

• Are committed to delivering great customer service
• Are pro-active, show initiative and offer innovative ideas for improvements
• Are able to plan and organise their work effectively
• Want to contribute to providing high-quality public services across the South-East
• Has communication skills

Previous experience in procurement is ideal but not essential and we welcome applications from people with a range of commercial experience. The successful candidate is expected to be aware of the implications of working within a public sector environment and how this affects purchasing strategies and practices

In Orbis Procurement, our values and behaviours are just as important as our skills and abilities.

To apply for this role, please follow the 'Apply Now' button above and upload your CV and a Supporting Statement. We will be using your Supporting Statement to shortlist so please be sure to address how you meet all the criteria in the person specification, drawing on any relevant work/life experience, education, or personal interests.

Please download the Job Description & Person Specification for more information.

Interviews will be held in person at County Hall, Lewes within two weeks of the closing date.

Customer focus is at the heart of what we do. We aim to be influential in the market, deliver professional procurement and commercial expertise and support our partners - making a real difference to the services we provide to our residents and making a real impact on local communities.

"We are on a journey to become a centre of procurement excellence in Local Government with an ambition to power up procurement to deliver real and sustainable impact for our residents". - Darron Cox, Director of Orbis Procurement.

If you would like to be part of this journey, we look forward to receiving your application.

From flexible working to job sharing (where possible) we are committed to providing a healthy work life balance. A laptop and mobile will be supplied if applicable to your role. You will benefit from 23 days annual leave, rising to 26 days after 5 years' service (with an additional 2 days between Christmas and New Year) and a generous local government salary related pension. More information can be found on our benefits page.

Our administrative bases are in Lewes (County Hall), in Reigate (Woodhatch Place) and in Hove Town Hall. Some travel to the other offices is required from time to time. We support a hybrid working approach, which means you're able to be flexible in location. Typically, you'd be expected to be in the office one or two days a week, with a focus around business needs.

To arrange an informal discussion, please contact Maura Collyer, PMO Specialist by email at maura.collyer@eastsussex.gov.uk

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Additional Information

Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is part-time or term-time only.

If you require sponsorship to work in the UK please let the hiring manager know this in your application so we can check eligibility for sponsorship for the role. For further information please go to Work in the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

If you require any reasonable adjustments, due to disability, to enable you to participate fully in the process please contact the hiring manager on the contact details above.