Finance Department
Paisley Campus
REQ001831
Post – Procurement Officer
Salary per annum – Grade 4 (£24,948- £29,619)
Full time, Permanent
THE POST – Procurement Officer
The Procurement Officer provides procurement support to the Senior Procurement Business Partner, the Senior Procurement Officer and Schools and Departments across the University.
The successful candidates’ key activities will include
- Proactively increasing the use of e-Catalogues.
- Promoting the use of APUC Framework Agreements.
- Contributing to the ongoing delivery of procurement related training across UWS.
- Assisting in managing the use of Corporate Procurement Cards.
- Assisting in the management of UWS wide contracts.
- Assisting in the preparation of Tender Documentation.
- Administering Quick Quotes, Mini Competitions and Tender’s on Public Contract’s Scotland (PCS) and PCS-tender.
- Recording and monitoring the social and economic benefits delivered through UWS contracts.
- Supporting the monitoring of contract compliance across the Campus.
- Supporting the implementation of Supplier Relationship Management.
The Procurement Officer will be part of small procurement team which will provide you with both the opportunity to quickly expand your procurement experience and knowledge and to allow you to use your existing experience and knowledge to positively contribute to UWS Strategy 2025.
The successful candidate should have the following:
- Educated to Degree level or a minimum of 3 years working within a public sector procurement environment
- Level 4 – Diploma (Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply) or committed to achieving with support from UWS
- Experience working within a public sector procurement environment
- Experience utilising e-Procurement solutions
- Experience facilitating tender processes
- Experience including Sustainability in tender evaluation criteria.
- Experience using PCS/PCSt.
- Experience extracting reports from a Finance Management System
ABOUT US
University of the West of Scotland is one of Scotland’s largest and most dynamic modern universities. Our reach across the country, together with our London campus, means that UWS is a significant force in global knowledge creation, innovation, and a leading provider of undergraduate, postgraduate and research degree education. Our degrees provide students with a transformational experience; equipping them with highly sought-after graduate skills that set them up for global success in world-leading sectors, industries and businesses.
With cutting-edge courses, modern pedagogy and practical knowledge, we enable our students and staff to experience the joy of learning, teaching, research and innovation, and apply their knowledge for the benefit of others.
Our professional services teams are the backbone of UWS, providing robust and innovative solutions to support the vast range of work across learning and teaching, and research and innovation. You will join a supportive and dedicated team, playing a key role in a range of work that will help drive forward our ambition to deliver world-leading research, and graduates who will design, shape and build a new future. Find out more about our Professional Services teams.
We offer our staff a caring and supportive environment, across five campuses, and a competitive benefits package which includes:
- 24 days of annual leave, plus a further 12 days for public/university holidays
- 19.3% employer’s pension contribution, including death in service benefits on joining the pension scheme
- A flexible approach to working pattern and work-life balance
- Employee discount scheme across 3,500 retailers
- Fitness facilities across our campuses
- Access to a range of health and wellbeing resources, including occupational health, physiotherapy and access to our Employee Assistance Programme
- Professional, career and research development opportunities.
Further information, including details of how to apply are available at https://jobs.uws.ac.uk/
Closing Date: 21st October 2022
Interview Date: 4th November 2022
UWS is committed to equality and diversity and welcomes applications from underrepresented groups.
UWS is a “Disability Confident” employer.
University of the West of Scotland is a registered Scottish charity, no. SC002520.
