Contracts Manager

Are you an experienced Procurement professional with public sector experience looking for an exciting new role?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Contracts Manager to join our expanding team and organisation. We are committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and we are interested in you as an individual. We are looking for a highly organised professional with a positive attitude, dedicated to achieving excellence in public sector procurement.

Who are we?

Crescent Purchasing Consortium (CPC) is a not-for-profit charity that gives back to the education sector and a one-stop procurement shop, with a vision of being the first-choice procurement services charity that gives back to the education sector. Combining professional support, expert guidance, and resources with FREE training and development opportunities via Crescent Learning.

CPC provides a range of services which include, 80+ compliant frameworks, with several approved by the Department for Education (DfE), consultancy services which can aid with every aspect of an institutions procurement journey from facilitating flexible procurement outsourcing, five days a week, to designing a strategic procurement package to maximise your savings.

Each year CPC's Board of Trustees review the level of reserves our charity has and any surpluses are reinvested back into the education sector via the 'Giving Back' initiative. To date over £2 million has been designated for re-investment in the form of various projects with the largest amount being used specifically for awarding non-refundable grants to CPC members supporting SEND learners, wellbeing and absenteeism in colleges, schools, academies, and universities nationwide.

What makes us different?

We're an award-winning organisation recognised and certified as a “Great place to work”. We offer a collaborative, exciting environment where your ideas are heard and valued. We provide competitive salaries, benefits, and opportunities for career development. We're making a real

difference and you can be a part of it! This is just the beginning, we're constantly growing and evolving and we're always looking for passionate individuals who share our vision!

This is just the beginning, we're constantly growing and evolving and we're always looking for passionate individuals who share our Vision, Mission and Values:

CPC’s Vision is to be the first-choice procurement services charity that gives back to the education sector.

• CPC’s Mission, we want our members to receive outstanding procurement services.   

• CPC’s Values

  • People First - We provide a caring, inclusive, and supporting environment that focuses on individual needs to enable our people to be the best they can be.

  • Customer Always - Everything we do is for the benefit of our customers, to help them provide the best service possible to their learners.

  • Excellence -We are 100% committed to delivering the highest-quality services that exceed expectations, with continuous improvement at the heart of what we do. 

You will join the Contracting Team, which is set up into three broad categories, People, Place and Product. You will be responsible for, amongst other duties and assigned agreements, managing the complexity and demands of CPC’s highly successful Building Cleaning and other associated “Place” related frameworks. The Building Cleaning framework is one of our strategically important services and will require you to manage any risk, relationships and service levels, so our members receive value for money.

CPC agreements cover a wide variety of supplies, works and services, and we aim to continue to develop this portfolio in line with our members' needs. CPC currently offers 88 unique agreements to its membership, which recently exceeded 10,000 institutions from across the UK education sector.

Reporting to Procurement Manager, you will be responsible for the delivery of the whole procurement cycle from business planning, pre-market engagement, end-to-end tendering, contract management, stakeholder engagement and managing the overall performance of your allocated framework.

You will also provide mentoring support to the Senior Procurement Officers & Procurement Officers as well as providing a full and professional procurement service to all members, covering the acquisition of any goods or services under Framework Agreements and Dynamic Purchasing Systems (DPS).