Senior Category Manager Ict

Salary: £57,748 – £69,964 per year

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PURPOSE OF THE SENIOR CATEGORY MANAGER ROLE

Manage and co-ordinate ICT procurement activity for the team. Manage allocated high risk, high value contract procurement, undertaking ICT related procurement activities including market development, tendering, implementation, and monitoring of procurement contracts across the Seven Forces as directed by the Head of ICT.

Monitor the over-arching supplier market, and key market suppliers in terms of performance and stability, highlighting and tracking risks where appropriate.

Lead (and assist where required) on complex, strategic, contractual and commercial negotiations on the ICT category, across the Seven Forces maximising value for money for the police forces.

Provide expert procurement, commercial and legal advice to the OPCC’s and Chief Officer teams across the Seven Forces to enable them to deliver their Policing Plans within the ICT category stream.

Maintain visibility with the Chief Officer and OPCC teams across the Seven Forces and gain their trust and support.

ABOUT SEVEN FORCE PROCUREMENT

Seven Force Procurement is a single collaborated function providing effective procurement services across seven police forces in the eastern region; Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent, Norfolk and Suffolk. This collaboration is responsible for third party spend of approximately £230m per annum, making the Seven Force Collaboration the second largest police procurement collective after the Metropolitan Police

Seven Force Procurement covers the full life cycle from identification of business need through to supplier selection, contracts management, contract expiry/termination and starting to plan for the next contract lifecycle.