Deputy Head of Procurement Hub

2 weeks ago

Pretoria, South Africa Foreign & Commonwealth Office Full time

Job Description (Roles and Responsibilities)

**Main Purpose of Role**:
Based in Pretoria and reporting to the Head of Hub, the jobholder will provide procurement/commercial expertise to the Africa regional procurement hub based in Pretoria, Kenya and Nigeria. The jobholder will have a line management and coordination role across the different locations, with responsibility for the procurement life cycle across the regional network including Embassies, High Commissions and posts, ensuring compliance to FCDO global policy and UK procurement regulations.

The jobholder will provide guidance and support to stakeholders through management of the Hubs on daily procurement activities and the most complex procurement requirements. Increasing commercial influence of procurement and commercial improvements across the region to deliver Value for Money (VfM) and alignment to transparency initiatives for the FCDO.

The jobholder will work closely with the heads of hub, to establish the hubs service offering and working with the wider team to implement across the region. Building key relationships with stakeholders at Post they will be influential in work planning and risk mitigation leading to continuous improvement to the delivery of an efficient service.

Part of this role will include building relationships with the UK and wider hubs network to collaborate on workstreams to proactively seek opportunities to drive efficiencies globally.

Alignment and input into the UK category strategies ensuring local knowledge is captured and used to influence where required.

Through strong management skills the job holder will have responsibility for the management of the team, effective work planning and efficient resource allocation will be required to ensure the team provide a quality service across the region. They will provide support and coordination of the team’s activities ensuring trust is built through encouragement and empowerment.

The job holder will be self-starter, requiring emotional intelligence with a solution orientated mindset.

**Roles and responsibilities**:

- Line management and coordination responsibilities of the team, ensuring effective leadership to include work and resource planning enabling the team to provide a high-quality service
- Provide support and coordination of the team’s daily activities to ensure all procurement/commercial outputs are compliant
- Development of team though supporting L&D learning opportunities, ensuring trust is built through encouragement and empowerment
- Creativity and innovation will be required when developing and implementing service requirements for complex procurements to ensure value for money is achieved
- Stakeholder
- Provide input to category plans where necessary and ensure engagement in business cases and lead on the drafting on the commercial case for all planned in scope procurements or commercial activity requiring FCDO Commercial engagement in the area under your remit
- Influencing and alignment to category strategies development from the UK, ensuring hubs expertise of local markets is embedded, fit for purpose and included
- Work with the Head of Hub to develop, maintain and leverage effective relationships with key internal and external stakeholders
- Actively work with stakeholders to review the range of commercial opportunities available to them and raise awareness and understanding of Commercial policy and best practice
- Proactively engage with stakeholders across the region to provide commercial advice, direction and assurance on all commercial issues
- Use judgement, interpretation and co-ordination to ensure that the solutions developed and delivered are acceptable to senior stakeholders and, when applicable, partners across government
- Use Judgement, interpretation and coordination to ensure effective solution resolution of risk and issues at both transactional and strategic level, escalating to the Head of Hub as required
- Ensure continuity and consistency of approach across the hub from project to project, using required tools, systems and processes to guide commercial activity and produce high quality commercial management information, sharing best practice with the wider hubs network
- Support the pipeline of projects and contracts using the FCDO eProcurement platform to enable accurate and timely reporting
- Provide input to category plans where necessary and ensure engagement in business cases and lead on the drafting on the commercial case for all planned in scope procurements or commercial activity requiring FCDO Commercial engagement in the area under your remit
- Resolve complex issues, including those that are perceived to be novel and contentious
- Provide management, support and advice to other members of the team to develop business requirements and viable solutions and provide oversight and assurance of tender documentation and procurement compliance
- Manage internal governance controls and support team in progressing th

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