Procurement & Contracts Advisor

1 month ago


London, United Kingdom Historic Royal Palaces Full time

Historic Royal Palaces is the independent charity that looks after the Tower of London, Hampton Court Palace, Kensington Palace, the Banqueting House, Kew Palace and Hillsborough Castle & Gardens.
**Location**: Hampton Court Palace, HM Tower of London
**Status**: Established/Permanent
**Salary**: £35,432 Per Annum
**Days/Hours of work**: 36 hours per week - full-time, Monday to Friday. Flexible/hybrid working arrangements available
**About the role **
Historic Royal Palaces (HRP) is a team of people who love and look after six of the most wonderful palaces in the world. We create space for spirits to stir and be stirred.
Our focus is to fulfil the core aim of our charitable purpose whilst protecting our income and expenditure across the organisation by ensuring best value for money is achieved.
We are looking for someone to join a small team with a remit covering Procurement, Property Management and Commercial contracts across HRP, led by the Head of Procurement and Contracts.
Your key responsibility will be focusing on supporting the Senior Procurement Manager on procurement and contracting activity covering an eclectic mix of categories across all of our sites, namely HM Tower of London, Hampton Court Palace, Kensington Palace,Kew Palace, Banqueting House and Hillsborough Castle and Gardens.
This includes public engagement and interpretation, marketing, security, professional services, functions and events, exhibitions, operations and conservation to name but a few areas the team support, however IT, Digital, Maintenance & Facilities and Constructionrelated procurement activity is managed by other colleagues.
This will mean providing a professional, flexible and efficient service ranging from the provision of advice and guidance for small and low risk activity to leading the management of procurement processes and contract negotiations for more complex contracts,end to end.
**Benefits include**:

- Competitive Pay
- Annual bonus and pay reviews
- Generous employer contributed pension scheme
- Enhanced holiday entitlement
- Family friendly policies and benefits
- Financial support services
- Staff discounts and access to all palaces
- Staff membership to all palaces
- Complimentary tickets
- Cycle to work scheme
**About you **
Strong planning, flexibility and multi-tasking skills, stakeholder management, commercial awareness and contract drafting abilities are needed to ensure success in this role, as is an awareness of framework contract offerings from providers such as Crown CommercialServices and the London Universities Purchasing Consortium.
You will have the opportunity to work flexibly across different sites (including a measure of home / hybrid working) with a choice of Hampton Court Palace or HM Tower of London as an office base.
Ideally, you will be on the way or with an aspiration to gain MCIPS qualifications.
**Closing date**: 23.55pm on 26th January 2023
**Interviews**: w/c 6th February 2023
**You may have experience of the following**: Procurement Business Advisor, Procurement Specialist, Procurement Advisor, Procurement Coordinator, Procurement Assistant, Procurement Manager, Purchasing, Purchasing Assistant, Buyer, Buying etc
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