Procurement Lead

Procurement Lead

Household / Department - Privy Purse and Treasurer’s Office

Location - Buckingham Palace

Contract/recruitment type - Fixed Term Contract

Start date - December 2024 

Starting salary - £50,000 - £55,000 per annum dependent on experience

Hours of work - 37.5 hours a week over 5 days (Monday to Friday)

About the role  

It’s knowing your expertise is paving the way forward 

It's working as one to deliver impressive results. And it's providing the insight that will help shape our future. This is what makes working for the Royal Household exceptional. 

Be it maintaining our historic buildings, delivering events, ceremonies and engagements that celebrate individuals and the many facets of our society, or encouraging the public to enjoy the Royal Collection, the diverse activities of the Royal Household will present you with some truly fascinating, and often unique, challenges. Joining our team, you'll organise and plan a varied portfolio of procurements for goods, services and projects across the organisation.

• You’ll provide procurement expertise and guidance as well as contract management support for a wide range of specialist function areas, including Property specialist term contracts and Digital Services.
• You'll support end-to-end governance for procurements, including producing tender documents, evaluation criteria and contract agreements.
• Working collaboratively with our Finance team, you’ll help departments plan and prioritise their procurement activity and projects, and align with organisational objectives.
• You’ll also maintain our Contract Management System, ensuring due diligence, reviews and renewals are programmed into the procurement pipeline.
• As a key point of contact between internal clients, procurement colleagues and the suppliers, you'll help ensure stakeholders are engaged and up to date on progress of procurement activity.
• Financial control, compliance and risk management will be critical, and you'll ensure every procurement is managed to improve efficiency, quality and value.
• You’ll also support and promote our procurement policy and best practice more generally across the organisation, with a focus on continuous improvement.

Across your portfolio, you seek to ensure we’re responsible and sustainable in our procurement activities. The sheer range of procurements will stretch you, but you'll rise to the challenge of delivering effective support across the organisation.  

About you  

About you 

• You will be working towards (or already have) full membership of the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (MCIPS).
• You’ll also have ideally started, and preferably completed, the Government Commercial Function's Transforming Public Procurement training via the Government's Commercial College Qualification(s) in respect of the Procurement Act 2023.
• You'll also have substantial experience in a procurement role, potentially in either a property or digital environment, where customer focus and high-quality output is second nature.
• Keen to apply your knowledge, you'll be able to advise and manage on different aspects of a procurement's timeline, from supplier shortlisting, tender evaluations through to compliance and contract management.
• You may have experience of reviewing contracts and e-tendering software. More important however is your eye for detail, and ability to interpret data to advise colleagues and produce informative reports.
• Highly organised, resourceful and adaptable, you'll be confident managing a varied portfolio of procurements and maintain records and databases effectively.
• Your outstanding communication skills are vital, as you'll be working alongside a wide variety of people, both internally and externally.

With a team focus and naturally collaborative attitude to work, you'll adapt to meet any challenge that comes your way, delivering to the highest standards every time.

Benefits  

We know that to deliver our best work; we need to feel at our best. That’s why at the Royal Household we offer a generous benefits package designed to support your wellbeing and life priorities. 

Enjoy 25 days annual leave, rising to 30 days (plus bank holidays) dependent on the length of time you have worked for us.

Our excellent non-contributory pension plan (we’ll contribute 15% and you can contribute more if you wish) is highly valued by our employees, as is complimentary lunch on-site to keep you fuelled throughout the day.

We also offer a range of leave options to support your life priorities, such as parental pay and leave and volunteering days, as well as benefits to support your physical and mental wellbeing.

Other perks include 20% off at our Royal Collection Trust Shops and complimentary admission tickets across all our locations, along with many more exclusive employee discounts.

Find out more about the full range of benefits available to our employees here.

Vacancy Closing Date: 06/10/2024, 23:55