Contract Support Officer

Organisation:ESPO

Work Location:ESPO Barnsdale Way Grove Park Enderby Leicester LE19 1ES

Salary:26832- 28146 per annum (Pro rata for part time)

Working Hours:37

Contract Type:Permanent

Closing Date: 4th March

Interview Date(s): TBC

If you are looking for an exciting and challenging opportunity to work within the public sector for an organisation with a commercial edge then ESPO is the place for you. We are looking for highly a motivated individual seeking a career in procurement.

ESPO are a public sector professional buying organisation and we return the surplus we make to our local authority owners to invest in the public services we all rely on. We have ambitious plans for the future and we are looking for a contract support officer (CSO) to join the Catalogue Procurement team.

About the Role

As a contract support officer at ESPO the successful candidate will be working in a busy and progressive category team liaising with suppliers in gathering financial information regarding turnover and developing and using other management information to confirm rebate / income streams relevant to the teams budget. You will manage and collate management information for meetings with suppliers and for ESPOs senior leadership team.

Other duties include analysing and manipulating management information to produce graphs and charts; supporting the team with highlevel market research; maintaining framework and supplier databases; assisting with ESPOs annual pricing exercise; providing administrative support such as preparing correspondence and presenting information; conducting and recording compliance checks on existing framework suppliers; handling pricerelated queries and updating data within ESPOs ERP system; and carrying out any other relevant duties as required.

About You

To apply for this post you must have:

• GCSEs A-C in English and Maths or equivalent
• Experience of working as part of a team and experience in a customerfacing / supplier facing role
• Experience of customer/client relations and engagement with stakeholders
• Market analysis/data analysis/interpretation or manipulation of financial data/data presentation
• Ability to organiseand prioritise a variable workload and the ability to establish and maintain good working relationships with customers colleagues suppliers and other contacts.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills including confident telephone manner. Excellent IT skills specifically MS Office word Excel PowerPoint (including but not limited to use of formulae generation of graphs / charts etc)
• Awareness of structures and relationships within local government

Wed also expect you to shareour commitment to our valuesand will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the interview process.

Interested in Flexible Working

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Thereforewherever possible we will consider working arrangements that suit an individuals personal circumstanceswhilst still meeting the needs of ESPO. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role please contact the person named below. This mayinclude requests for term-time working part-time hours compressed hours flexible start and finish times home/remote working etc.

For more information or an informal discussion please contact:

Kapil Rajput Procurement Service Manager (Catalogue Procurement)

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How to Apply

ESPO is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality diversity and inclusion at every warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ Plus communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the customers we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the About You section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.

To apply for this job please click Apply Now. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the About You section more information see the How to Applysection on our career site.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore if you are interested please submit your application as early as possible.

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