Procurement Support Assistant
| Posting date: | 17 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £25,652 to £27,363 per hour |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 16 July 2025 |
| Location: | Hybrid/Civic Offices, PO12EP |
| Company: | Portsmouth City Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | pcc/TP/724/647 |
Summary
Procurement Support Assistant– Procurement Service
Salary: Band:5, £25,652 - £27,363 p.a. (£15,599 - £16,639 for 22.5 hours)
22.5 hours per week - flexible over three days - days to be discussed at interview.
What is the role?
This is a varied role providing administrative support within the Procurement Service.
The role of Procurement Support Assistant provides vital support to our professional team in helping them deliver value for money contracts and the smooth running of business processes.
You will provide high quality administration support to aid in the management of procurement, contract management and provide comprehensive support to ensure that all procedures are followed. This will involve working efficiently with colleagues, client departments, external agencies and suppliers.
You will provide high quality administrative support to the team and will have responsibility for specific tasks. Good timekeeping and attendance is essential.
For a full description of the tasks please view the job profile.
Who is the person?
With good literacy and numeracy skills and effective written and verbal communication skills, you will have experience of working in an administration and supporting role.You will be computer literate and ideally have experience of using Microsoft packages including Excel, Word, Outlook and Teams.With a good attention to detail and level of accuracy and excellent analytical skills you will have the ability to prioritise your workload with the ability to work flexibly to meet the requirements of the team and wider service.
Please view the full details of what you need in order to do the role.
About Portsmouth City Council
What we can offer you:
Portsmouth City Council is a unique organisation, committed to making a difference, and is guided by core values that set who we are as people, what we stand for, and how we act.
Read more about working at Portsmouth City Council and our benefits on our careers portal homepage: Careers Portal - Find jobs with Portsmouth City Council
Application process:
Please read the full job profilefor further details on the post to ensure your application matches the requirements of the role stated in the who is the person.
Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points described in the 'Who is the Person' points on the Job Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. This is important or you are likely not to be shortlisted.
Closing: 4 July 2025.
The interview process, including work related exercises will be on the16 July 2025.
We are a disability confident employer and Armed Forces Covenant gold standard. More information can be found atEquality, diversity and inclusion - Careers portal.We are committed to offering an interview to all those candidates that qualify under one of our commitments and meet the minimum criteria, however for roles that receive a large number of applications, this is not always possible, and we will select the candidates that best meet the minimum criteria.
You will need to demonstrate that you have the Right to Work in the UK. No post will be offered without it.
We will email applicants from time to time; please ensure you check e-mail folders as sometimes our e-mails may go into spam/junk folders.
Should you require any support in completing the application form please contact recruit@portsmouthcc.gov.uk. or call the recruitment team on 023 92 616800