Procurement Officer

at  Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

THE SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE:

We are looking for a proactive individual who can provide a quality service whilst ensuring value for money for LSTM and its subsidiaries. Previous experience of procurement within a complex environment is essential, along with knowledge of procurement policies and procedures, experience in managing tender processes, working with procurement frameworks and contract negotiation.
Experience of working within higher education or a pharmaceutical environment would be highly advantageous as this position will support the expenditure for our laboratories.
A Level 5 Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) qualification (or equivalent) would also be beneficial however, this is not essential as we would be keen to support the successful candidate through this qualification.
This role has leadership responsibilities so we are looking for someone who can either bring managerial experience, or who has the desire to take the next step in their career and develop as a leader.

THE ROLE:

Underpinning the amazing work our researchers carry out, is a talented professional services team that are passionate about the part they play in improving global health. The Finance, Procurement and Research Services team at LSTM is looking to appoint a skilled Procurement Officer, who will provide a high level of professional procurement support to our Head of Procurement, which will ensure all objectives in the group finance strategy can be met or exceeded.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Communications
• Provide advice and support to requisitioners, colleagues and suppliers in complying with procurement policy
• Design and deliver a procurement training programme for LSTM colleagues and suppliers to develop procurement understanding
• Collate and analyse data to produce reports for KPI’s and compliance monitoring
• Tenders and contract management
• Manage and own category strategies for specific areas of expenditure, including identifying opportunities for savings, threats and risks
• Identify, manage and see through to fruition tender projects and quotation exercises
• Assess and review sourcing options including UK and overseas
• Systems and eProcurement
• Manage and develop the etendering system to ensure compliance with UK regulations
• Support and train colleagues to use the eprocurement system
• Sustainability
• Ensure that sustainable and responsible principals are embedded within all procurement activity and throughout the LSTM supply chain
• Management
• Line management duties with responsibility for annual staff performance reviews, training and development and workload management