Senior Procurement & Contract Management Advisor - Basildon Borough Council

Senior Procurement & Contract Management Advisor – Basildon Borough Council

Basildon, Essex

£30.00 PAYE / £38.48 Umbrella

6 Months Contract

Full-Time, Temporary – 36.25 hours per week.

Closing Date: Monday 1st December 2025

Essex County Council (ECC) are delighted to be supporting Basildon Council to recruit Senior Procurement & Contract Management Advisor on a full-time, temporary basis.

Due to the nature of this role, the successful candidate will be required to be on-site a minimum of 1 day per week.

Main Purpose:

Responsible for supporting the organisation in developing and delivering a range of service projects through robust business cases and detailed commercial programmes and plans.

The Commercial programme is directly linked to the Council’s Medium Term Financial Strategy and the post holder provides strong financial governance; as well as tracking progress and key dependencies, maintaining issue logs, projects plans and ensuring robust risk management.

Programmes and projects may be cross cutting within the organisation and with external parties.

Job duties:

• To provide the Senior Leadership Team and elected members with updates on the Commercial Agenda.

• To provide commercial view on procurement opportunities, ongoing contract management and contract reviews across the Council.

• To lead the development of robust contract management framework throughout the authority..

• To lead in activities during the procurement of relevant goods, works and services in accordance with contract procedure rules and management of contracts.

• To undertake all aspects of programme/project management including project plans, highlight reports, risk registers and other governance processes. 

• To monitor and update the Benefit Realisation plans, liaising with Service Managers. 

• To ensure resource planning and outcomes are aligned with the Councils Corporate Plan, Corporate Programme and MTFS. 

• Provide assurance for projects and tasks within Commercial Services. 

• To lead the development of robust commercial business cases.

• To build strong working partnerships with public, private and third sector organisations in order to maximise collaboration and stimulate financial savings.

• To embed a commercial culture within the Council, supporting our staff to embrace entrepreneurialism, produce new ideas and consider value for money.

• To optimise the Councils use of technology in order to enable new ways of working, generate savings and improve service quality for our staff and residents.

• To advise and support services in commercially marketing and selling services and products.

• Ensure compliance with all appropriate legislation, professional standards and Council policies.

Key skills and experience required: Local Government Procurement Experience required

Why choose Basildon Council?

Basildon Borough Council is one of the largest local authorities in the East of England region and serves a population of approximately 172,000 people. The town of Basildon is regarded as a key economic hub with the main areas of employment being engineering, research and development, distribution and financial services. Basildon is also the second biggest economy in the Thames Gateway, outside of Canary Wharf.

Working for Basildon Borough Council means making a practical and positive difference to the lives of people living and working in the Borough and provides a fulfilling career.

Each of our employees - whatever job role they are undertaking - can feel motivated by having a unique opportunity to use their skills to make Basildon a better place to live. Whether it is conserving our countryside, by regenerating our Borough, by housing our residents or by collecting the refuse on time.

Note: ECC are advertising this role on behalf of Basildon Council.

Basildon Borough Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults, and expects all employees, contractors and volunteers to share its commitment to prevent abuse, harm or exploitation.

The Council applies a robust recruitment vetting process. If you are successful you will need to undergo a Pre-employment Vetting Procedure.

What you should do next

If you are interested in finding out more about this role, we would love to hear from you. Please apply via Working for Essex website.

If you have queries on this role or require anything further, please email Ashleigh.Drake@essex.gov.uk