Procurement Coordinator - Social Care (1 Permanent post /1 maternity cover up to 12 months)

Scotland Excel is an award-winning Centre of Procurement Expertise providing a wide range of procurement, commissioning, consultancy, and learning and development services for our members.

Since 2008, we have helped to establish procurement as an effective driver for local and national economic growth and wellbeing. Our £2bn portfolio of collaborative contracts supports the delivery of savings, social value, community benefits, fair work practices and environmental policy, and covers a wide range of public services including construction, roads, transport, environment, corporate and education.

Scotland Excel also develops and manages arrangements which support the commissioning of care services for children and adults. Our national care contracts are developed in partnership with care professionals, including care providers, to support person-centred outcomes embedded within national policy.

We also provide procurement and consultancy services to help our members get the most from their procurement resources, ranging from ad-hoc tendering support through to transformation programmes and strategic procurement partnerships.

The Scotland Excel Academy offers applied learning programmes leading to accredited qualifications in procurement, leadership and management, coaching and mentoring, project management and business analysis, as well as short courses and workshops.

Scotland Excel is a non-profit organisation working with members from across the public sector including local authorities, health and social care partnerships, housing associations, and other public and third sector organisations.

About the roles

Scotland Excel wishes to recruit two Procurement Coordinators to join our social care teams. We have vacancies for one permanent position and one to provide maternity cover for up to 12 months.

Scotland Excel has three dedicated Social Care teams, covering Adult Social Care and Children Services. The teams provide national framework agreements for a range of care and support services for people. You will be joining the Social Care team at an exciting time for social care commissioning as we consider the recommendations of recent reviews and changing policy direction.

The roles will support the teams to manage the current framework portfolio. The roles will primarily focus on contract management activities and tasks (including detailed data analysis) and will also assist with a range of procurement and commissioning activities of strategic contracts as well as supporting wider policy requirements as required.

Both roles require strong organisational planning, systems processing and data analysis skills. The postholders will support an enthusiastic team to coordinate and deliver project planning activity, related to existing contracts as well as developing and embedding best practice business processes and systems across the team. The successful candidates will also work closely with colleagues to support local authorities in their local procurement and commissioning practices where required.

These roles require strong stakeholder engagements skills. The postholders will support the Category Manager to develop strategic partnerships with providers as well as providing stakeholder relationship management across local authority user intelligence groups and other forums.

The successful candidates will be required to represent Scotland Excel by supporting team members on strategic groups and external forums, and ensuring contracts are reflective of policy and best practice.

What we can offer you

As well as a competitive salary, you will have access to all the benefits of working for a public sector organisation including a defined benefits pension scheme, generous holiday allowance, flexible working, the possibility of remote working and a range of other initiatives which reflect our commitment to creating a positive work-life balance for all our employees.

To find out what makes Scotland Excel an employer of choice in public procurement and what benefits we can offer you visit our website.

The temporary maternity cover post may also be available as a secondment opportunity for existing local government/public sector employees, subject to the agreement of your employer.

How to apply

For full details of the skills, experience and personal qualities required for these positions, please click on ‘apply’ to visit the careers page on our website.

We welcome applications from candidates with disabilities and guarantee an interview to those candidates who meet the essential requirements for the position.