Print and E Procurement Coordinator

Location: Boston Spa
Hours: Permanent – Full time
Grade: B
Salary: £30,450 per annum

Do you have excellent communication, organisational and written skills, able to work well with a range of stakeholders and use good judgement to make decisions? If so, this could be the opportunity for you.

We are seeking a Print and E Procurement Coordinator within our Content Development and Implementation Team at Boston Spa, near Wetherby, West Yorkshire. This is an exciting opportunity to join a small friendly team who are passionate about supporting the delivery of the British Library’s content strategy through the procurement of contemporary books, serials and e resources for the Library’s collections.

Main responsibilities
- Coordinate the contract management of existing contracts with both internal and external stakeholders; exploit efficiencies and ensure robust performance monitoring.
- Coordinate new tenders including gathering requirements, drafting specifications, evaluating tender responses and working with Supply Chain Management colleagues to publish and award tenders
- Coordinate the review of license agreements for the purchase of e content, consulting with legal colleagues as necessary

You should have:
- The ability to plan, organise, schedule, and prioritise your own workload, with a commitment to providing high quality outputs to meet agreed deadlines
- Proven communication skills demonstrating you can work with a range of stakeholders and develop successful working relationships
- Excellent writing and review skills with strong attention to detail

As one of the world’s great libraries, our duty is to preserve the nation’s intellectual memory for the future and make it available to all for research, inspiration and enjoyment. At present, we have well over 170 million items, in most known languages, with three million new items added every year. We have manuscripts, maps, newspapers, magazines, prints and drawings, music scores, and patents. We make our collections and programmes available to all. We operate the world’s largest document delivery service providing millions of items a year to customers all over the world. What matters to us is that we preserve the national memory and enable knowledge to be created both now and in the future by anyone, anywhere.

In return, we offer a competitive salary and a number of excellent benefits.  Our pension scheme is one of the most valuable benefits we offer, as our staff can become members of the Alpha Pension Scheme where the Library contributes a minimum of 28.97% (this may be higher dependant on grade. Another significant benefit the Library provides is the provision of a flexible working hours scheme which could allow you to work your hours flexibly over the week and to take up to 5 days flexi leave in a 3 month period. This is on top of 25 days holiday from entry and public and privilege holidays.

Closing date: 21 July 2024
Interview date: 31 July 2024

We are unable to provide sponsorship under the UK Skilled Worker visa for this role, as it does not meet the eligibility criteria required for this immigration route

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