Procurement Lead - The Royal Household : Job Details

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.

Essential Criteria

• 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.