Grade 14
37 hours per week
Wigan Council is looking for someone to head up its Procurement and Contracts Compliance Team.
The successful candidate will play a major part in redesigning how the Council commissions services and procures major work. You will also be responsible for continuing a fundamental review of the Council’s existing contracts and governance processes to ensure the Council is achieving maximum value for money as well as delivering social value through the Council’s Deal with its residents.
You will head up a team of five procurement and contract compliance staff and be the officer responsible corporately for ensuring that procurement, commissioning and contract management is carried out lawfully and efficiently across the Council. You will be expected to have significant experience of procurement and commissioning in a public sector organisation and to have been involved in delivering tangible improvements to value for money and governance.
This is a politically restricted position.
For further details please contact Penny McGinty on 01942 489103 or email P.McGinty@wigan.gov.uk
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