Procurement Officer

• Undertake research and investigation to inform suggested routes to market for your allocated procurement projects.
• Liaise with requisitioners and take lead in managing the end-to-end procurement process for your allocated projects. This involves explaining the procurement process to stakeholders setting timescales supporting the preparation of specifications preparing tender/quote documents controlling and coordinating clarifications and tender evaluations selecting the supplier providing feedback and preparing contract documents for review.
• Prepare reports contracts and other related procurement documentation for review and approval and you will maintain a full audit trail of all decision making related to your procurement projects.
• Provide advice to internal and external stakeholders on contractual and commercial matters relating to NRS procurement policy and procedures for low/medium value/risk goods and services and you will investigate and resolve any queries at this level.
• Monitor and manage the contracts within the low value procurement team dealing with any issues that arise.
• Establish contract purchasing agreements and purchase orders on NRS purchase to pay system Oracle and you will undertake a number of housekeeping tasks within the system to ensure Contracts and Orders are up to date.
• Use your allocated Electronic Purchasing Card to pay for low value goods and services on behalf of internal customers keeping your card secure and reconciling statements on a monthly basis as per policy and procedure.
• Provide administrative and procurement support where required to other members of the Procurement Team. This will include but not be limited to meetings training activities tender evaluations records management activities relating to NRS contract portfolio preparation of reports to assist annual procurement reporting or ongoing contract management.

Apply online providing a CV and Supporting Statement (of no more than 750 words) which provides evidence of how you meet the skills experience and behaviours listed in the Success Profile above.

Vacancy closes at 23:59pm on Thursday 30 April.

If invited for further assessment this will consist of an interview and a presentation.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools can be used to support your application but all statements and examples provided must be truthful factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others or generated by artificial intelligence and presented as your own) applications will be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action.

Please see ourcandidate guidance for more information on acceptable and unacceptable uses of AI in recruitment.

Assessments are scheduled for mid-June 2026 however this may be subject to change.

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