Responsible for the creation, deployment, and ongoing management of national procurement arrangements supporting strategic procurement projects. You will be producing a procurement strategy, developing a set of business requirements, runnning an EU compliant competition process, awarding agreement, providing succesful suppliers with specialist advice anfg contract management of all successful suppliers. This will involve working closly with a broad range of stakeholders to ensure that current and future procurement arrangements are designed to fully address strategic and operational business needs. You will either have experience of internal or external procurment and will understand Public sector EU procurement regulations and processes, knowledge of ICT procurements or products and services, and experise in supplier relations and contract management. You must have strong negotiation skills and be able to make complex decisions in a confident professional manner. With excellent problem solving skills and of a persuasive nature you will be a professional relationship builder.