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Procurement and Contracts Manager - London

Our client is a forward thinking national public sector organisation who are looking to recruit a number of procurement professionals to join their developing commercial procurement unit.

The Procurement and Contracts Managers will not only need to have sound and extensive technical procurement experience and expertise, they will also need to complement this with the behaviourial competence to make a real impact in the role. They will be required to build relationships with a range of stakeholders, to influence and educate them to help ensure best practice procurement becomes standard and to further strengthen the department’s reputation.  Individuals will need the project management capabilities including risk management in order to successfully deliver the size and complexity of procurement for such an organisation. Furthermore, this will require the ability to think strategically and to consider the wider economic and political environment within which the organisation operates.

Candidates will be ideally degree and CIPS educated with proven procurement experience gain within a strategic function