Supplier School Relationship Officer
Supplier School Relationship Officer
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11-02-2025
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Job Description
9 months contract with a Local Authority
Job Purpose
- To manage relationships with a range of suppliers to ensure the delivery of high quality cost effective services that deliver best value for money and helps achieve commercial objectives and outcomes for traded services.
- To facilitate and support the process of sourcing and procurement of best value and compliant goods and services that are required as part of the provision of catering and other traded services to schools and settings.
Key Duties/Accountabilities
- Act as a key customer account and relationship operative for Traded Services managing a portfolio of key accounts fostering strong ongoing relationships with all stakeholders customers suppliers and business partners
- Responsible for the quality assurance and operational performance monitoring ensuring suppliers adhere to agreed service levels KPIs and pricing thereby ensuring that contractual commitments are met.
- Support with the mobilisation of new contracts in liaison with suppliers relevant stakeholders and customers ensuring successful operational start up and delivery of services.
- Prepare service specifications as required as part of tendering for services applying the principles of coproduction by involving suppliers partners service users throughout the all stages of the production of tender documents.
- Monitor the provision of goods and services to schools ensuring that suppliers adhere to agreed contracted prices quality and product specifications. Liaise with suppliers internal stakeholders and schools as appropriate to ensure that issues and complaints are promptly resolved.
Essential Experience Required
- Substantial experience of managing strategically important contracts delivering improvements in services for users and cost savings is essential.
- Demonstrable experience in managing complex and varied stakeholder relationships effectively is essential.
- Experience of collaborative working to determine viability of procurement options and best fit service provision through market testing and benchmarking is essential.
- Experience of supplier and contract management where the purchaser is a public sector body is essential.
Essential Qualification Required
- (HCC) 5 GCSEs or equivalent including English and Maths (C and above) is essential.
Additional information to note
- Working hours: 36 hours per week 8:30 am 4:30 pm.
- Hybrid working 1 day a week minimum in the office (day to be arranged with manager) and onsite visits to client premises/schools as and when required.
The closing date for this position is 13th February 2025.
Substantial experience of managing strategically important contracts, delivering improvements in services for users and cost savings.
Education
Substantial experience of managing strategically important contracts, delivering improvements in services for users and cost savings.
Employment Type
Full Time
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