Senior Procurement Specialist

Police Scotland


Date: 4 weeks ago
City: Glasgow
Salary: £53,673 per year
Contract type: Full time

Due to a planned substantial increase in capital investment, particularly in relation to Police Scotland’s Estate Masterplan, Police Scotland has taken the decision to strengthen its procurement team in a number of areas. 10 additional roles have been created to add to current resources and facilitate the formation of an additional category team. This will enable the separation of the current combined corporate and estates category team into two dedicated category teams, one for each of the corporate and estates areas.


Each team will consist of a Category Manager and a range of Senior Procurement Specialists, Procurement Specialists, Procurement Officers and Procurement Assistants (circa team of 9-11 members for each category). This will ensure that the procurement team can meet the demand for increased capital expenditure in the most efficient, and effective way possible to ensure that Police Scotland achieves its long term 2030 vision for policing.


Whilst the final allocation of roles/ existing staff to teams has not been carried out, there are currently 2 Senior Procurement Specialist posts available and it is anticipated that there will be 1 x role available in the Estates category and 1 x role available in the Corporate category, therefore previous experience in construction contracts, use of terms such as NEC and SBCC, professional services/ consultancy contracts, and developing national contracts would be desirable.


This is an exciting opportunity for experienced procurement professionals to join a thriving and expanding procurement team who recently won the GO Awards Scotland Procurement Team of the Year award following a period of improvement and reorganisation. The reorganised Police Scotland procurement team provides excellent opportunities for personal development and career progression within the team. Policing is a fast paced, dynamic environment and the Authority is looking to attract candidates for this role who will relish the unique challenges that policing brings, working with a variety of partners across the organisation to deliver sustainable, strategic and best value procurement projects and activities.


Reporting to the Category Manager, they will manage and drive a range of complex spends in order to provide SPA/Police Scotland with efficient and effective provision of procurement services in line with overall organisational goals and relevant legislation and directives. They will manage, and be supported by a team of Procurement Officers and Procurement Assistants in order to fulfil their duties.


Full details regarding this vacancy can be found in the attached Role Profile.


Applicants must be a British citizen, a member of the EU or other states in the EEA, a Commonwealth citizen or a foreign national free of restrictions.

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