Project Manager (Procurement Strategy and Operations)
Job Description
About Us
UCL is London’s leading multidisciplinary university, with more than 13,000 staff and 42,000 students from 150 different countries. As well as being a global leader in teaching, UCL is also recognised as one of the most successful research institutions in the world.
UCL spends over £600 million per year with third parties. Our Commercial and Procurement Services (C&PS) function aims to deliver a first-class commercial and procurement services which supports UCL’s Sustainable Procurement Strategy and the aims of UCL.
Strategy and Operations plays a key role in Commercial and Procurement Services, ensuring that the function achieves its objectives and providing a range of support and analyses for procurement categories.
About The Role
In this job you’ll work within the Strategy and Operations team within Commercial and Procurement Services, managing discrete projects within the Strategy and Operations team in C&PS. You will deliver effective management of individual projects, co-ordinating between procurement projects and manage dependencies with wider UCL activities. You will be working with colleagues in other professional services functions, too, including HR and ISD. You will also manage the IT-enabled platforms that support C&PS’ work, including our E-Marketplace and contracts management system. You will play a key role in developing integrated reporting for use by management from these and other tools.
We will consider applications to work on a part-time, flexible and job share basis wherever possible.
About You
To do this job you’ll need to be commercially astute and collaborative in your approach, and comfortable in working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. Ideally, you will be educated to degree level (or equivalent) and have a recognised project/programme management qualification or be able to evidence this through your experience. You will have a commercial or procurement background and have a strong track record of delivery and demonstrating impact through delivering projects on time and on budget. You will be used to providing regular, focused, data-driven progress reports to a wide range of stakeholders, including senior leaders. You will be IT-literate, and ideally you will have experience of delivering technology-enabled projects using Agile approaches.
What we offer
As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:
- 41 Days holiday (including 27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days
- Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
- Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
- On-Site nursery
- On-site gym
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
- Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
- Discounted medical insurance
Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.
We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce. These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.
You can read more about our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion here : https://www.ucl.ac.uk/equality-diversity-inclusion/
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