Category Delivery Lead - Waverley Court in Edinburgh

Category Delivery Lead - Construction Specialism Waverley Court

Salary: £56,392 - £67,457

Hours: 36 per week

Commercial and Procurement Services performs a critical role, working in collaboration with the whole of the Council’s operations, to ensure that we achieve value for money whilst balancing cost, the delivery of citizen or service outcomes and our wider responsibilities, including sustainability, community benefits, fair work practices and the development of a vibrant local economy.

To join our highly professional and award-winning team you will require extensive procurement experience and the project delivery skills necessary to succeed. These roles have direct responsibility for leading the delivery of complex capital procurement projects. This involves project planning, stakeholder engagement, analysis, compliance, terms and risk management as well as supervising/mentoring junior staff, ensuring they are given full opportunity to develop. Projects range from public realm enhancement to new housing developments and schools.

You will need to be well organised, have good attention to detail and possess credible technical, commercial, interpersonal and communication skills as well as relevant experience to ensure positive engagement with stakeholders and successful, timely procurement delivery. This is a challenging and fast-moving environment to work within, so you will also need to be professionally and personally resilient, collaborative, creative, adaptable, responsive to change and, importantly, recognise the key role that procurement plays in enabling the Council to deliver better outcomes for citizens and the City of Edinburgh.

It is essential that candidates have experience leading construction procurement projects and can demonstrate a solid history of delivering complex public sector procurement projects successfully utilising a range of procedures. Candidates should have achieved or be willing to study towards becoming MCIPS qualified.

We are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we are bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

To help achieve this, we interview and assess candidates via a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity, and Flexibility into your ways of working alongside technical skills-based questions.

We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce where everyone feels valued and able to be their best. We particularly encourage applications from women for senior roles, as well as people from minority ethnic backgrounds, people with disabilities or neurodivergent people, care experienced people, carers and LGBT+ people across all levels of the organisation, all of whom are currently underrepresented. All applicants will be considered fairly based on skills and experience. Disabled and care-experienced applicants who meet the minimum job criteria will be guaranteed an interview.

Find out more about our commitment to equalities.

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range. Happy to talk flexible working.