An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Procurement Head of Service role to join our Strategic Procurement Team and Commissioning team at Hampshire County Council. The Role: The team supports Hampshire County Council and Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service as well as providing procurement services to a number of other external clients including other Local Authorities, National Park Authorities, educational establishments and other public sector bodies. We are currently seeking a Procurement Head of Service within our Strategic Commissioning and Procurement Team to plan, drive and deliver collaboration and effective stakeholder management to embed and apply a best practice commercial approach to external spend, providing support and challenge across the Procurement lifecycle in order to deliver value for money outcomes. What you''ll do: As part of the service Senior Management Team, you will be leading a Category Team/s who manage and deliver above threshold, high value and complex tenders from procurement strategy through to contract award stage. You will also be providing support to the Assistant Director across their entire portfolio which includes Strategic Procurement, Social Care Commissioning and Contract Management You will be deployed to lead key directorate initiatives by providing strategic oversight and technical procurement advice to high value/complex projects in order to deliver transformational savings through a commercial best practice appro