Waste Procurement Delivery Manager - Waste Services
| Posting date: | 04 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £538.46 per day |
| Additional salary information: | per day PAYE depending on experience |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 May 2024 |
| Location: | NORTHAMPTON, NN1 1ED |
| Company: | Triumph Consultants Ltd |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | WNC (HQ) WNC17470 |
Summary
What's involved with this role:
Interim Waste Procurement Delivery Manager - Waste Services
Reference no: WNC (HQ) WNC17470
Pay Rate: up to £538.46 per day PAYE depending on experience
37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for up to 13 months
City: NORTHAMPTON
The post will normally work remotely, and they will only be required to travel to OAS for specific meetings as required by the procurement programme. On some occasions, this may be every day in a working week, but approx. 80 - 90% of their time will be remote.
Develop and lead the waste procurement programme to achieve seamless, compliant and value for money waste services from strategic inception and project planning through to negotiation and delivery. The role is responsible for leading and managing a multidisciplinary team, including officers from across the council and external advisors as required, to ensure the robust delivery of outcomes.
Key Responsibilities:
Develop and deliver a programme for the successful procurement of key waste contracts, with the objective of ensuring seamless service delivery, compliance with statutory duties and value for money.
Lead and manage the delivery of the programme, working with staff across West Northamptonshire Council, and external consultants (as appropriate) to ensure that projects are delivered successfully on time and on budget through good project management discipline, strong governance and proactive management of risks and issues.
Work in partnership with senior managers, leaders and members to inform, challenge & influence enabling the delivery of the waste procurement programme.
Procure as necessary and manage any commissions with consultants required to deliver the waste procurement programme and award of contract. Ensure that any commissions achieve value for money.
Ensure the programme is delivered through the effective use of resources, including (as appropriate) the project budget by forecasting and controlling the expenditure incurred related to the delivery of the programme.
Ensure that the programme is well communicated through management information and governance to internal team members, partners and other internal and external stakeholders to encourage positive engagement.
To lead and manage the mobilisation of the contracts to deliver services effective from 1 April 2025.
Maximise personal productivity, minimise duplication and errors and manage information efficiently and securely to reduce risk and provide auditable records though effective use of Office 365 and internal IT systems and applications.
Actively challenge and seek to eliminate any directly or indirectly discriminatory practice or behaviours.
Demonstrate awareness and understanding of other people’s behavioural, physical, social and welfare needs and ensure that reasonable care is taken at all times for the health, safety and welfare of yourself and other persons.
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Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
Qualifications:
PMO3, MSP, PRINCE2 or equivalent programme/project management qualification or equivalent by significant experience
Educated to degree-level or equivalent in a relevant subject, or equivalent by experience
Knowledge:
Knowledge and understanding of the dynamics and complexities of public sector and the Local Government environment and its impact on service provision, staff and relationships with key stakeholders.
Excellent understanding and application of financial management, business case development, benefits realisation planning and supplier management.
Excellent understanding and experience of the application of the project development lifecycle
Understanding of transformation and change strategies and how to implement them
Experience:
Demonstrable experience of negotiating, influencing and delivering successful outcomes in partnership and collaborative projects
Demonstrable experience of having worked in a political environment, skills in understanding and responding t different perspectives and taking a cross-organisational perspective with the ability to develop and sustain cooperative working relationships at all levels of the organisation and with external partners
Experience of presenting and a high level of skill in using other communication tools in a project environment to a wide range of stakeholders of different levels, including expressing complex technical, system concepts and ideas clearly and concisely to a non-specialist audience
Evidence of success working at a senior level managing complex and high risk procurements and programmes.
Demonstrable achievement in successfully producing successful outcomes from managing projects to time and budget in a multi-disciplinary and partnership environment.
Skills & Abilities:
Strong interpersonal skills and excellent communication
Demonstrate effective use of Office 365 (incl. Teams, OneDrive, etc.) or willingness to undertake training during the probation period.
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Job Ref: WNC (HQ) WNC17470
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