About the job

Job summary

Procurement Officer

Birmingham, West Midlands (with hybrid working)

We have an exciting new opportunity for a Procurement Officer to join our team in Birmingham where you will provide support, advice and challenge to the business on all areas of procurement.

The Benefits:

- Salary of c£42,000 per annum
- Civil service pension, with an employer contribution rate of 27%
- Flexible working
- Hybrid working, specific guidelines are to be agreed with line manager
- 26 days holiday and option to buy up to five days extra annual leave

Joining us means joining an organisation that is certified as a Great Place to work, respects work-life balance, inclusive, and is completely dedicated to helping you achieve your full potential. Whether that’s through flexible working, really understanding how you work best or exposing you to real opportunities to challenge yourself, if you’re passionate about making your mark on the industry and on society, then we will help you do that.

Job description

Your Role

As a Procurement Officer, you will be required to manage and deliver procurement events on behalf of the Commission reporting to the Procurement Manager.
As such your role will also involve:

- The administration of our e-procurement platform
- Placing notices on contracts finder/find a tender
- monitoring the tender message board
- maintaining and potentially developing the contracts module
- Discovering information on Crown Commercial Service Framework.
- Assisting with formatting and drafting of procurement documents.
- Acting as the contract lead for finance contracts.
- Processing procurement requests such as new suppliers and Single Tender Action Requests
- Tracking and reporting non-staff spend on the finance system.
- Administration of spend control requests and the production of procurement metrics.
- Administration and maintenance of procurement files
- Supporting the production of various procurement management reports and responding to freedom of information requests.

Person specification

About You:

- MCIPS Qualified or working towards MCIPS Qualification
- Previous experience of working in procurement
- Ability to plan, manage and deliver work to agreed deadlines with great attention to detail.
- Good stakeholder management, including the ability to work with, challenge and support staff at all levels.
- Strong communication skills, including being able to explain financial information to non-financial staff
- Good IT skills (particularly Excel).
Experience of public sector procurement would be desirable.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £42,000, Gambling Commission contributes £11,340 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

About Us

Set up under the Gambling Act 2005, the Gambling Commission is committed to safeguarding the public against any detrimental impact brought about by gambling. We do this by keeping crime out, protecting children and vulnerable people and ensuring the commercial gambling industry is run fairly and openly. We work with the legal system, the public health system, community groups and the industry itself to understand how we can protect the interests of as many people as possible, as effectively as possible.

The closing date for this role is Friday 5th April 2024.

PLEASE NOTE: incomplete applications will be discounted from short-listing. Please ensure your application is fully completed and submitted before logging out of your account.

We reserve the right to change the closing date depending on the number of responses received. Please submit your application as soon as possible to ensure it is considered in the selection process.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission. The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.