Description:
The purpose of the role is to support the relevant Senior Procurement Manager to build and maintain positive and effective relationships with business leadership teams in order to provide strategic and professional procurement advice and ensure mutual understanding on current and pipeline procurement needs. The role holder is responsible for competitive tendering and procuring of a spectrum of services which could include information technology, professional services and construction/works of low to medium value/complexity/risk at national / EU levels, supporting the relevant Senior Procurement Manager with respect to high value/risk/complexity procurements, ensuring the Bank achieves its procurement policy objectives in a timely, compliant and cost-effective manner.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for building and maintaining strong collaborative and professional relationships with leadership teams and providing professional procurement advice on sourcing strategy and the application of relevant policies, guidelines and legislation. The role holder is responsible for ensuring that the procurement objectives of the Bank are aligned with the individual goals and objectives of the relevant Business Units and that current and future requirements are delivered in an efficient, timely and cost effective manner.
- Responsible for leading the effective and timely execution of low to medium value/complexity/risk procurements from end to end (market research to contract conclusion) and supporting the relevant Senior Procurement Manager with respect to high value/risk/complexity procurements. Tracking the progress of multiple procurements at varying stages of progress and ensuring that the business is kept up-to-date throughout. The role holder will engage with the Bank’s Legal Division as necessary to ensure that tenders are compliant with all aspects of the Public Procurement regime and with Bank policies.
- Identify and assess risks and implications of procurement related business decisions and influence the business appropriately to ensure alignment with the Bank's Principles and Priority Behaviours and with applicable Procurement Policy, legislation and guidance.
- Provide input into the provision of detailed reporting and analysis to senior leadership teams on the outcome of procurement processes and on forecasted and secured spend. Input into the development of a structured framework for demand management and use structured processes to run quality and peer reviews of procurement strategies, outgoing tenders and evaluation criteria to ensure adequacy and fitness for purpose to meet the Bank’s objectives.
- Support the Sourcing side risk processes. Raise and track sourcing risks in conjunction with the business and Operational Risk. Maintain detailed tender stage gate and metrics information to ensure quality management information.