Procurement Manager (Development) - Glasgow Clyde College

Key Role Information:

• Hybrid working
• Glasgow Clyde College - Cardonald campus
• 9 day fortnight working pattern

About the Role

APUC have provided a shared service at Glasgow Clyde College since 2013. Glasgow Clyde College is part of APUC’s Glasgow Regional Procurement Team and works collaboratively with the other member colleges namely: Glasgow Kelvin College, West College Scotland and City of Glasgow College. This provides an opportunity to increase knowledge of the sector, network with peers, share best practice and enhance experience in multiple areas of procurement.

Reporting to the Procurement Manager within the College, the role holder will cover a variety of spend areas as well as ensuring that the relevant supporting activities including systems management and reporting are completed in line with institutional and statutory needs.

Glasgow Clyde College is a multi-campus college with three sites across the City in Anniesland, Cardonald and Langside and is home to over 7,000 full-time students and 20,000 part-time students. Glasgow Clyde College describe themselves as People-centred, Pioneering, Principled and Passionate. The College has total non-pay expenditure of approx. £10m per annum with over 800 active suppliers.

Over the next 2 years, the College anticipates completing at least 30 regulated procurement exercises with a value of approx. £8m. These projects include Corporate Payment Services, Estates projects, ICT goods and services, Library systems, supports and publications and Professional Services – General, HR etc.

Knowledge and Skills

• Have effective and highly responsive customer management skills;
• Attention to detail and a methodical approach to systems management and organisation.
• Be of high intellectual calibre, with the highest ethical standards;
• Studying towards (or prepared to study towards) achieving Membership of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply;
• Have the essential competencies of clarity of purpose, self confidence, integrity and strong influencing power; and
• Be conversant with generic (contract law etc) legal aspects of supply chain management

Experience

• Experience of meeting demanding targets and deadlines on a day to day basis
• Data analysis experience and production of management reports
• Advanced spreadsheet skills and the ability to use financial models to present efficiency performance

Contacts and Relationships

• The post holder must build strong working relationships with all stakeholders and develop the reputation of APUC as a source of expert guidance and support both to institutional customers and suppliers

About APUC

Advanced Procurement for Universities and Colleges (APUC)is the Centre of Procurement Expertise for, and owned jointly by, all of Scotland's Universities and Colleges. With collaboration, responsibility, and integrity at the heart of what we do, we're all about helping our member institutions achieve their objectives, whether you are putting together Framework Agreements, reducing the sector’s carbon emissions or working directly in one of our client institutions. Joining APUC means joining a community of peers, and getting the chance to get together often and having network opportunities throughout the year. Peer support and collaboration is integral to who we are at APUC. We currently employ around 90 people, most of whom are based within Colleges and Universities but with some based in our regional offices in Stirling (HQ), Glasgow and Edinburgh.