LCP/DM Portfolio Manager

Job description

Contract Terms

Contract Type: Full -Time, Permanent
Salary: PO4 £47,532 – £50,574 per annum
Interview: w/c 17th February 2025
Closing Date: Sunday 2nd February 2025

About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.

Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the role

This role forms part of the Dynamic Market’s team, which is income generating and sits’ within the wider Strategic Procurement function. The role is required to establish collaborative procurement vehicles, such as Frameworks, Dynamic Purchasing Systems (DPS’s), and Dynamic Market Places (DMP’s) primarily for use by Haringey Council but can also be accessed by public sector organisations across London and the Home Counties.

This role will also be required to support a number of internal and external clients with their procurement requirements, which will include pre market engagement activities, running mini competitions or Direct Awards from existing DPS’s and Frameworks through to the award of contracts.

The team has recently gone through a period of change and growth. We are a still a relatively small team with 9 staff from a diverse background. The team all work hard to pull together and support each other to achieve our aims and objectives.

About you

• Prince 2 Practitioner or equivalent and CIPS Level 4 are both desirable.
• Experience of managing DPS Implementation projects with a range of stakeholders to achieve optimal outcomes. 
• Project management within a complex environment including liaison with a range of stakeholders.
• Ability to analyse complex problems in a logical and systematic way and identify Best Value solutions based on a thorough understanding of the underlying issues and requirements.

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community. 

Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement up to 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.

Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role please ensure that you do so as soon as possible.

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