Procurement Specialst
About The Role
The Procurement Team manages a spend of around £1.5Bn per annum with external suppliers, procuring everything from software to social services, cleaning products to highway maintenance services.
This role involves working on a range of procurement projects, across different category areas, providing expertise on tendering activity to clients across different services and delivering high performance contracts by either tendering or the use of frameworks.
In Procurement we are supporting a lot of the contract transitions for local government restructure (LGR) as well as the business as usual work across Surrey County Council.
This role contributes to the organisation's strategic goals by delivering tangible benefits which can include social value and other benefits which brings value both to the council and to residents.
Shortlisting Criteria
In order to be considered for shortlisting, your application will clearly evidence the following skills and align with our behaviours:
- Innovative thinking, to come up with ideas for improvements
- Great organisational skills to plan and organise work effectively
- Great communication skills to enable delivery of great customer service to our stakeholders
- Great at working in teams
- Experience in procurement, commercial or buying fields
- Understanding of Public Sector Procurement and objectives
To apply, we request that you submit a CV and you will be asked the following 4 questions:
1. Describe your procurement experience. Please include up to two relevant projects that demonstrate how you have applied your learning and understanding of procurement principles.
2. Please describe a time when you had to work within challenging timescales to deliver a piece of work. Please outline the skills you used and any lessons learned.
3. Please describe how you build, manage, and maintain strong stakeholder relationships with a range of different people. Please give examples
4. We are required to work effectively in teams. Please describe your experience of working in a team, including with people from diverse backgrounds. Explain the skills that make you an effective team player and what an inclusive working environment looks like for you, including examples.
The job advert closes at 23:59 on 23/06/2026 with interviews planned to follow.
Contact Us
Please contact us for any questions relating to the role. This could be to discuss flexible working requests, transferable skills or any barriers to employment. Please contact Sara Montague via email at sara.montague@surreycc.gov.uk.