Are you a confident people leader with extensive public procurement knowledge?
We are seeking a talented candidate able to provide strong, visible, and collective leadership for analytics and processes!
Growing demographic changes, ongoing efforts to provide our residents and communities more choice and control over services, and the financial constraints we face are all opportunities for us to continually improve how we operate. The Council is always striving to adapt and find better ways to serve all members of the community, making a positive difference to the people of West Sussex.
Working with elected Members, the leadership team has set out a clear vision of how we will continue to deliver for our residents over the next five years. This plan will provide the vision and direction, as well as the framework for our organisation and our collective partnership working across West Sussex. It is now our job, to deliver on these commitments for and on behalf of our residents. Want to be part of our vision? Keep reading to find out more about this fantastic opportunity!
The Opportunity
Salary: £55,057 to £58,829 per annum
Working Pattern: Full time, 37 hours per week
Location: Based at County Hall, Chichester, hybrid working options
As the Operations & Analytics Manager, the purpose of your role is to provide operational and analytical expertise and leadership, championing a commercial mindset and best practice approach to external spend, in order to deliver value for money outcomes and transform the ways services are delivered.
You will develop and implement robust processes, systems and analytics that optimise performance for the business in terms of cost, quality, delivery and responsiveness.
You will lead the operational and analytical support to category teams and be responsible for ensuring all analytics contributions to a category are captured and stored in line with the latest practice in systems, process and practice for our addressable spend – approx. £1billion per annum across c. 4000 plus suppliers.
You will be the primary interface for all aspects of our eProcurement and Contract Management platform (Atamis), reporting and analytics, developing and enhancing procurement processes for the Procurement and Contracts Management team for procurements and leading stakeholders in best practice.
You will also manage the new Buying Desk capability within the team, with three staff supporting the organisation in seeking competitive quotes and new contracts in value range of £25k-100k.
We do reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications. We encourage you to submit your application at your earliest convenience.
What are we looking for?
We are seeking a talented candidate able to provide strong, visible, and collective leadership for analytics and processes. Your key competency areas will include;
- Public Procurement knowledge and experience within complex environments
- Solid understanding of S2C and P2P workflows, controls and procurement systems
- Confident people leader with experience coaching and supporting teams
- Skilled in data, KPIs, reporting and process improvement
- Comfortable delivering at pace and stepping in to a hands‑on role
- Excellent communication and relationship‑building skills
- Change‑management experience with a practical, grounded approach
For more information on the Key Skills as well as the Qualifications and/or experience required, please refer to the Job Description attached.
Working for us
As well as adding real value to our service users and our communities, as an employer we recognise our employees are central in being able to achieve this. To recognise this we want to help support your development and provide a great place to work ensuring you can fulfil your full potential, have access to a range of benefits including:
- an excellent local government pension scheme
- generous holiday entitlement of 30 days (plus opportunity to buy additional leave)
- a range of flexible working options, depending on your job role
- maternity, paternity, dependency and adoption leave
- volunteering opportunities
- training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring
- a range of discounts giving our staff access to hundreds of offers; groceries, travel, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities, high street retailers and the opportunity to save over £1,000 a year through our West Sussex Choices benefits platform (see our Staff discounts page if you are a business looking to offer a discount)
- health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and Voluntary Health Cash Plans
For a full list this can be found at our Rewards and Benefits page.
Further information
The reference number for this role is CRS01044.
For an informal conversation or for further information regarding the role, please contact Matt Wigginton (Head of Procurement) at matthew.wigginton@westsussex.gov.uk. For issues or queries regarding your application please contact hrrecruitment@westsussex.gov.uk.
To apply, please follow the links below to upload your CV and Cover Letter. In your cover letter please outline your motivations for applying and explaining the skills and experience you can bring to the role (please refer to the key skills) ensuring that any gaps in employment are covered in your CV. Please ensure you have saved the job description attached to the main advert on our website as, once the job has closed, you may not have the opportunity to download again.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. This post is subject to 3 years referencing and a health check.
Equity, inclusion and accessibility is very important to West Sussex County Council. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, as this helps us build a diverse and talented workforce, that reflects the communities we serve. We ensure our approach to recruitment is flexible and supportive to enable all applicants to be at their best and to ensure they have the best possible chance of success.
We operate a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants that have a disability, are a veteran or are a care leaver. More information can be found on our application help page.
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