ITU Procurement Officer, Permanent in Gloucester

This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.

We are seeking an additional fulltime procurement officer to join our busy team based in Shire Hall. We procure and contractually manage all the Council's contracted passenger transport.

If you have a proven track record of being very well organised, plus experience of working in a busy team environment and also work well independently, we would like to hear from you.

The successful candidate will need to be proficient and accurate in using Microsoft Outlook, Excel, Word and PowerPoint. We prepare and manage all contractual documentation for the transport provision we procure. All the contracted transport is managed by the team during its operational lifetime. We coordinate investigations and prepare reports for senior management and stakeholders as and when required.

In addition to procuring contracted transport, we as a team deliver training to service areas within the Council on the various types of transport we can procure on their behalf, so the post holder will need to be confident at public speaking and be able to deliver training to large groups of people, in person or via TEAMS. We are seeking someone who can find solutions, work to tight deadlines and targets, and above all have a flexible approach. The role does require the postholder to accompany Transport Engineers to site inspections as and when required.

For all your hard work, you will receive the following:

• Flexible and agile working opportunities
• 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service
• Plus, an option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year (pro-rata for part-time staff)
• Family friendly employer offering benefits to help support you and your family
• Career development and qualification opportunities
• Supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
• Excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone.
• An in-house Occupational Health service
• Employee discount scheme
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) network and the Young Employees Network.
• Gloucestershire Salary Sacrifice Green Car Scheme (T&C's apply)

If you feel you have the skills, desire and experience required to make a positive difference then please submit your application. For an informal discussion about the role please contact Jo Savell via email.

The council is not currently able to offer sponsorship in this role. Candidates will need to have right to work that enables them to commit to at least 6 months' employment. Right to work is not transferable from a sponsored role held with another employer.

If you are an Internal applicant and consider yourself to have a disability as per the Equality Act (2010), please declare this in an email, as this is NOT currently covered in the application due to a technical error. By providing this information, you can choose to be considered for a guaranteed interview under our Disability Confident pledge if you meet all essential criteria. It also enables the recruiting manager to arrange any reasonable adjustments you may need during the process.

We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire’s diverse communities. Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.

It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a ‘customer facing role’ must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.

Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.