Assistant Procurement Manager

Assistant Procurement Manager

Overview of Responsibilities

Who are we looking for?

If you are an experienced procurement professional with an interest in sustainable and clean energy generation, we have an excellent opportunity for you. There has never been a more exciting time to join UKAEA due to the rapid growth we are experiencing as an organisation and consequently the Procurement Department!

As an Assistant Procurement Manager, you will deliver procurement support across the organisation, providing advice, guidance and completion of projects and complex tenders for the growing R&D portfolio within UKAEA ensuring UKAEA is compliant with European Commission and UK directives for procurement in the public sector.

Also, you will provide support and guidance for members of the procurement team, ensuring the delivery of a first-class procurement service to the organisation and support the organisation in the achievement of its own milestones and impacting the achievement of BEIS targets and milestones. You will have a chance to have a variety of challenges within the departments in terms of procurement and technical needs and to be an advisor to senior managers on contractual strategies (ranging from traditional contracts to alliances, partnerships, and alternative funding strategies).

If you have excellent interpersonal skills and you are a good team player with the ability to work effectively as part of the Group Procurement Team and well as you have strong stakeholder management skills and understanding of the OJEU process Excellent commercial acumen, then we would like to hear from you.

What will you be responsible for?

• Negotiate with the relevant parties including external companies to arrive at appropriate commercial agreements.
• Contribute to problem solving and decision making to develop specification requirements.
• Manage contracts from tender through to closure (evaluating bids, ensuring that value for money is always obtained, the negotiation of appropriate commercial agreements, and resolving claims and disputes).
• Provide general support, advise and coaching/delivery of training on commercial matters across the organisation and line management responsibilities.
• Contribute to the evolution of Authority's commercial terms and conditions, policies and working practices.
• Identifies opportunities for improvements and proposes solutions to contribute to continuous improvement within UKAEA.
• Required to deputise for the Procurement manager and the Procurement Business Partner at a variety of meetings, making decisions in line with commercial delegation.

Qualifications

Essential skills, experience and competence required

• Working towards MCIPS qualification
• Interpersonal skills to work alone and as a group with the wider procurement team as well as strong negotiation skills
• Experience of Public Sector Procurement and understanding of OJEU
• A good technical appreciation of the range of procurement categories
• Good procurement strategic knowledge and experience
• Commercially astute and customer focused
• Good negotiation skills with some understanding of NEC form of Contracts, Public Contract Regulations 2015
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Desirable skills, experience and competence

• Line management experience

Additional Information

What we offer

- A competitive salary 
- A culture committed to being fully inclusive, supported by a Being Inclusive Strategy and Inclusion Ambassadors
- An Employee Assistance Programme and trained Mental Health First Aiders, with a full calendar of health and wellbeing initiatives
- Flexible working options including family friendly policies 
- Emergency leave (paid)
- 30.5 days’ annual leave increased with length of service (including privilege days and 3 days between Christmas and New Year) plus bank holidays
- Wide range of career development opportunities (e.g. professional registration, internal promotions, coaching and mentoring programme) 
- Outstanding defined benefit pension scheme 
- Annual corporate bonus scheme 
- Relocation allowance (if eligible)

We welcome applications from under-represented groups, particularly from individuals from black and other ethnic minority backgrounds, including nationality and citizenship, people with disabilities, (visible and hidden) and women. The Executive team with support from our EDI ‘Equality, Diversity and Inclusion’ (EDI) partner and Inclusion Ambassadors, is actively promoting EDI and taking steps to increase the diversity of our people through reinforcing best practice in recruitment and selection, and revaluating approaches where it is clear we can remove barriers to success. We are easily accessible by car and are a 10-minute walk from Culham Railway Station in Oxfordshire.

Please be advised that this vacancy is due to close on 23/07/2022. We may close earlier than this date if large or sufficient numbers of applications are received.

Please note all employees working at the UK Atomic Energy Authority will be required to complete an online Disclosure Certificate application as part of their clearance – The Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks will show the details of all current criminal convictions (convictions considered unspent under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974) or will confirm that there are no such convictions.

Note for applicants who are applying for employment with UKAEA either from outside the United Kingdom or who have spent time outside the United Kingdom in the last five years. Please visit the UK Government website. If the country you are resident in or have resided in is not listed on this website or that the UK Government is not aware of how to obtain a criminal records check from that state then we are unable to process your application.