IT Procurement Officer

Job particulars

Division

Digital Options and Companies

Accountable to

IT Buying and Operations Supervisor

Location

Kedleston Street, Derby Campus

Wage

£26,363 to £28,827 (for distinctive performers, there may be scope for additional development as much as £32,838 every year)

Deadline

Tuesday 2 April 2024

Contract sort

Fastened time period contract 24 Months

Put up sort

Full-time

Adaptive working sort

Hybrid
This function will probably be based mostly on website, primarily within the named location with the chance to work remotely obtainable in step with our Adaptive Working Framework .

Reference

0009-24-R

In regards to the function

Do you get pleasure from offering a wonderful service, and supporting digital options? Are you a conscientious particular person who may also help workforce members when wanted? If that’s the case, we wish to hear from you!

We’re in search of a proactive and expert IT Procurement Officer to affix our IT Buying and Operations workforce, taking part in a pivotal function in guaranteeing the seamless operation of Digital Options & Companies (DS&S) on the College. 

The profitable candidate will reveal a profound understanding of enterprise operations, monetary administration, and procurement methods inside a big and complicated atmosphere.

As an IT Procurement Officer, you’ll collaborate intently with the IT Buying and Operations Supervisor and the College’s Procurement perform to implement and improve the general IT procurement technique. 

Your tasks will embody planning, managing, and delivering multimillion-pound IT upkeep spend classes whereas guaranteeing compliance with public procurement laws, inside laws, and moral requirements. 

Moreover, you’ll actively contribute to the monetary administration of the division, fostering a tradition of monetary greatest practices and wonderful service supply.

In case you are in search of a significant, impactful, and stimulating profession, we welcome you to use.

For additional data and casual enquiries concerning the function, please contact IT Buying and Operations Supervisor – Jo Kearley by way of [email protected]

For enquiries concerning your software and for sponsorship eligibility, please contact the recruitment workforce by way of [email protected]

Principal accountabilities

Work with the IT Buying and Operations Supervisor and the College’s Procurement perform to ship the general IT procurement technique.

Help within the planning, administration and supply of the multimillion-pound IT upkeep spend class to make sure compliance with public procurement laws and our personal inside laws, supply of greatest worth and financial savings and to make sure contractual obligations are met in a sustainable and moral style.

Help the IT Buying and Operations Supervisor in day-to-day actions concerned in managing the IT Upkeep price range and Software program purchases.

Act because the senior level of contact inside the division concerning monetary issues, promote monetary greatest practices, present steering and assist in the usage of the finance system.

Take duty for co-ordinating, monitoring and growing the day-to-day buying actions, processes, and techniques.

Guarantee all work is recorded and processed in accordance with College monetary procedures and laws.

Undertake venture work as required to develop service ranges and enhance techniques and effectivity inside the Staff.

Make use of a spread of IT expertise (together with spreadsheets, E-mail, web, databases and the College finance techniques) to be able to handle and progress personal and others workloads effectively.

Signify the workforce at each inside and exterior committees and teams as required.

Be an lively workforce member together with organising, attending and taking part in workforce conferences, finance boards and workers growth/coaching occasions as acceptable.

Undertake central administration data techniques wherever attainable to keep up and develop native data to offer environment friendly and efficient assist.  Make sure that all workers are totally educated and skilled in the usage of related techniques.

Liaise with College Undertaking Managers on the availability of venture allocation, value budgets, want by schedules and so on. for required components and providers/works and price range reporting.

Implement and ship a excessive customary of buyer care in all duties undertaken.

Help with analysis and routes to markets for procurement, handle relationships with suppliers, monitor contractual efficiency and guarantee alternatives for continuous enchancment are explored and carried out.

Guarantee all purchases are accomplished effectively and in accordance with the College’s monetary laws.

Help within the day by day and long-term strategic administration of software program and technology-related {hardware} inside the College. This consists of recording software program licenses and {hardware} belongings to make sure compliance with provider contracts and regulatory necessities.

Co-ordinate gathering data required for inside and exterior audits, compliance critiques, metrics gathering and different comparable workouts.

Individual specification
Important Standards
{Qualifications}

• GCSE Maths (Grade A-C) and English (Grade A-C) or equal
• A Ranges or equal e.g. BTEC, HND
• Superior IT Qualification, e.g. ECDL, CLAIT, GCSE IT or equal expertise

Expertise

• A confirmed file of success in an administrative/monetary supervisory place.
• Confirmed expertise of managing a assorted and demanding workload, together with planning successfully, prioritising work and assembly deadlines for self and a workforce.
• Confirmed expertise of managing tasks to fulfill specified deadlines.
• Expertise of working within the HE sector.

Expertise, information & talents

• Proof of downside fixing and co-ordinating administrative duties.
• Data of IT, AV techniques and Software program.
• Proof of making and utilizing spreadsheets and databases, e mail, and the web in an administrative context.
• Proof of working to procedures and of techniques growth.
• Proof of working with budgets.
• The flexibility to ascertain and keep an expert working relationship with workers in any respect ranges throughout the College.
• A excessive customary of literacy, numeracy and IT expertise.
• The flexibility to develop, implement and handle monetary and administrative techniques that meet the wants of the workforce and a altering atmosphere.
• Skill to speak clearly with inside and exterior clients and colleagues to be able to obtain frequent outcomes.
• The flexibility to provide administration data statistics in report or different types.
• Staff participant.
• Skill to make use of initiative and be proactive when coping with a spread of points and issues.
• The flexibility to reply creatively and positively to alter.
• Self-motivated and in a position to encourage others.
• Ahead pondering with a willingness to boost and develop expertise of self and others.

Enterprise necessities

• Skill to be versatile inside the working sample to fulfill the enterprise wants.
• Willingness and in a position to journey and work at different websites or places if essential.

Advantages

In addition to aggressive pay scales, we provide beneficiant vacation entitlement. We additionally supply alternatives for additional wage development based mostly on efficiency, and the chance to affix a contributory pension scheme.

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How one can apply

You’ll be able to apply by submitting a web based software. After you have signed in or registered with us it is possible for you to to start your software. In case you are creating an account for the primary time, please make sure you present an e mail tackle that you simply entry frequently as this will probably be our predominant technique of contacting you concerning your software.

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For those who require any help, together with the availability of any documentation in another format, please contact the Recruitment workforce at [email protected] .

Please observe all purposes have to be submitted on-line by Midnight GMT on the deadline of the emptiness.

Vital data

Please observe that sadly, this function won’t appeal to adequate factors to acquire a sponsored Expert Employee visa beneath the UK Visas & Immigration factors based mostly immigration system; nevertheless, purposes are welcome from candidates who don’t at present have the precise to work within the UK, however who could be eligible to acquire a legitimate visa by way of one other route..

Please seek the advice of the House workplace web site for additional data.

What’s Adaptive Working?

Adaptive working is about enabling a high-performing, versatile, and responsive work tradition the place the place, time, and method of working are tailor-made to the particular work exercise. This strategy ensures that the working atmosphere, together with each bodily and social environment, helps workers to carry out at their greatest and meet the college’s evolving wants.

As well as, adaptive working includes deliberately designing workspaces to assist a spread of actions and disciplines, offering the precise atmosphere for significant in-person connections and efficient collaboration. This consists of guaranteeing that workers have entry to the mandatory gear and sources from their first day on the college.

Adaptive working encompasses totally different modes of working similar to site-based, distant or hybrid working. It’s a broad framework inside which all workers can function successfully in accordance with their function.

Fairness, variety and inclusion

The College of Derby is dedicated to selling fairness, variety and inclusion. Nonetheless you establish, we actively rejoice the information, expertise and abilities every particular person brings. Our college students come from a variety of backgrounds; due to this fact we’re notably to listen to from candidates who will assist our leaders and groups be extra reflective of our scholar inhabitants.

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Why be a part of Derby?

Difficult, attention-grabbing and continuously altering, the College of Derby is a unprecedented place to be taught and an extremely rewarding place to work.

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We’re dedicated to safeguarding and selling the welfare of youngsters and susceptible adults and anticipate everybody who works for us to additionally share this dedication and to deal with folks politely and respect.