Corporate Services and Transformation - Working for Essex
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Welcome to Corporate Services

“The Corporate Services function is responsible for providing professional, efficient, and effective support services across the organisation to ensure we support Essex citizens. We have a passion for professional excellence and a reputation for support, promoting new talent through apprenticeships, interns and graduates. Compromising of centralised core professional support services such as Procurement, Essex Digital Service, Legal and Assurance, Transformation, and Finance teams.

Our Essex Digital Service work across all services ensuring that we are able to provide great solutions to both the workforce and 1.4 million residents of Essex in a digital age. Our Finance team includes financial strategy, management and accounting, but also oversees transactional services ranging from debtors, to financial assessment, to debt management. Our Legal services incudes overseeing the democratic services, insurance and risk. At Essex we have a centralised Procurement team that is CIPs accredited – overseeing contract management, sourcing and market shaping for over £1billion spend. We provide arrangements for Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) members through the Essex Pension Fund. Our Transformation team play a pivotal role at the forefront of the council’s transformation agenda for being one of the most forward looking, effective and financially sustainable Councils in the country.

We look for individuals who can match our passion, bring expertise and ideas and join us in delivering outstanding professional services. We want people who are creative thinkers who want to find better value ways to deliver outcomes to Essex residents. Please take a look at our vacancies and explore what opportunities there are for you to join us.”

Nicole Wood, Chief Executive (CEO)

Nothing less than vital

Join us, and you’ll be part of a 750-strong team, providing critical services that make a huge difference to our residents’ lives.

Essex County Council has a turnover of over £2 billion, a £900 million supply chain and over a million transactions a year. As well as overseeing the financial administration of these substantial numbers, our Legal and Assurance service provides legal advice, support to Councillors and a range of assurance services which help the Council have the right plans in place to manage the risks it faces.

Corporate Services bring a customer, supplier and market focus to everything we do, find out about our core support services here.

Katie
Graduate Procurement Trainee
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