Procurement and Contracts Manager

Department: Business Development E-business

E-business is an area that is crucial to the development of the agency and you are going to be driving forward the procurement strategy. Joining the Business Development senior management team, you will provide strategic direction on e-business internally and across the wider police service, monitor and oversee our approach to e-business commercial risk management and embed e-business strategies, systems and processes to support the improvement of procurement practices. We will also look to you to put in place a commercial and procurement framework for the adoption of e-business to ensure that there is a clear understanding of the issues surrounding e-business.

Degree educated, you will have experience of applying best practice governance, developing e-business new business strategies and a proven track record of leading high value business development and procurement projects in the public sector. This will be matched with a strong understanding of procurement transactional processes and techniques and a detailed knowledge of e-business applications, including e-sourcing and P2P. An awareness of government priorities and how new technology can help meet these will also be essential.

The NPIA, National Policing Improvement Agency, works for the Police Service and directly supports forces to deliver improvements today, and into the future. We’re a single national support agency led by the police, for the police, created through the work of the ACPO, APA and the Home Office. The NPIA provides leadership and expertise to the police service in areas as diverse as information and intelligence sharing, core police processes, managing change and recruiting, developing and deploying people.

Closing date: 6th April 2010.
Interview dates: Between 20th – 30th April 2010.