Procurement Specialist - FTC

Location

Harlow, Essex | United Kingdom

Job description

Salary: £55,000 pro rata

Location: The role is based In Harlow, Essex at the Motability Foundation’s offices, easily commutable from London, 30 minutes from Liverpool Street station or 18 minutes from Tottenham Hale station.

The Motability Foundation provides grant toward the cost of driving lessons for people who qualify through the Motability Scheme, including specialist instruction on the use of heavily adapted vehicles as part of a persons everyday mobility. Driving lessons are currently provided through a service contract with the AA Driving School. This contract is due for renewal in January 2025.

This role is a Fixed Term Contract for six months to oversee the procurement and contracting of an appropriate service provider through an open tender exercise following the Motability Foundation Procurement Policy and recognised best practice.

What you’ll be doing:

• Oversee an effective procurement process through to contract of a service provider, to run our Driving Lesson provision in line with the requirements of our Driving Lesson Grant Programme.
• Advise and guide the team on procurement best practice and ensure compliance with our internal procurement policy.
• Maintain a full procurement audit trail, including all relevant correspondence, bidders responses, evaluations, interactions with bidders and accurate records of internal and external discussions.
• Establishing the parameters for and leading on the tender evaluation of all responses received.
• Taking a proactive approach to risk management, identifying and capturing risks, identifying and discussing mitigations, reporting and, escalating when necessary.
• Performing any other reasonable duties as directed.

What will make you great in this role?

You will have a strong track record of successfully delivering procurement projects. You will be a team player, with previous experience of leading successful procurement projects.

You will understand and demonstrate the need for accurate record keeping, following a clear procurement workplan and providing relevant reports to the Motability Foundation team.

You will be expected to work to our values, being collaborative, respectful and evolving and as such, fully contribute to team initiatives and team meetings, helping others and treating everyone fairly and with respect.

Your experience

Must haves:

• Strong and proven knowledge of procurement and contract management.
• Previous demonstrable experience of running procurement of service contracts up to £10M.
• Communication and stakeholder engagement skills

Nice to haves:

• Previous experience of undertaking procurement within or on behalf of charities/foundations.
• Member of or working towards Membership of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) would be advantageous.

Reporting lines and relationships

Reports to: Head of Grant Programmes

Key relationships: Driving Lessons Programme Manager, Finance Department, Legal, Project support Officer.

Direct reports: none

Extra Information

• Motability Foundation operate blended working arrangement, which can be agreed with your line manager, you must be able and willing to work from our Harlow office at least three days per week.

Motability Foundation

At Motability Foundation we fund, support, research and innovate so that all disabled people can make the journeys they choose. We oversee the Motability Foundation Scheme and provide grants to help people use it, providing access to transport to hundreds of thousands of people a year.

We award grants to other charities and organisations who provide different types of transport, or work towards making transport accessible. We also carry out ongoing research, in partnership with disabled people and key stakeholders in the industry, to inspire innovations that continue to champion accessible transport for all.

Benefits

⭐️ WHAT MOTABILITY CAN OFFER YOU ⭐️

A career with Motability can offer you so much more than earning potential. We pride ourselves in offering some fantastic benefits and a culture to match, some of which includes;

🌞 Holiday – 26 Days + 8 Bank Holidays, increasing to 28 days after 5 years’ service

❤️ Health and Wellbeing – We offer private health care with BUPA alongside an Employee Assistance Programme, eye tests, flu vaccinations, enhanced sick pay and discounted corporate gym membership. We take your physical AND Mental Health seriously, with our dedicated mental health first aiders you will have support and understanding from your colleagues.

🏡 Family Friendly – We offer enhanced Parental Leave inclusive of Adoption Pay and we understand that families require flexibility, we provide time off for dependants, flexible working hours and the option to work from home. Life Assurance is 4 x your salary.

🌈 Diversity and Inclusion - We value everyone’s unique qualities and celebrate having a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone feels safe to be their authentic selves, no matter their age, ethnicity, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, neurodiversity or otherwise. This is embedded in to our values and we celebrate our differences and create awareness throughout the year.

🎉 Celebrating Success – We love to recognise people that go above and beyond with our Spotlight Award as well as having team celebrations and social events throughout the year.

☕️ Our culture - In the Motability office we “dress for our day”, it’s an incredibly welcoming and inclusive environment where we look to support your career, we offer a mini bus service from Harlow Town centre and station for those using public transport to reach us and there are plenty of free hot beverages for when you arrive.

💰 Pension – Up to 15%, inclusive of a 10% non-contributory addition and Motability matching your contributions up to 5%

We are a disability confident employer, feel free to make us aware of any reasonable adjustments you might need.

How to find out more?

To find out more regarding the vacancy and for the full job description, please contact our Talent Team at: [email protected]

Here at Motability Foundation, we embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity which means bringing your full self to work. We encourage and welcome all applications, regardless of age, gender identity, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation or disability.

We are a disability confident employer, so please do make us aware of any reasonable adjustments you might need throughout both the recruitment process and to work with us.

We are committed to offering to interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you have applied please send us an email stating that you have a disclosed disability and we will offer you an interview.

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£55k per annum