About Us:

In Kensington and Chelsea, we put local people and local businesses at the heart of decision-making, working in partnership with them to provide quality services that are responsive, effective and efficient. We are committed to embedding lessons from the Grenfell tragedy and are undertaking a major capital programme to significantly enhance fire and building safety standards across council-owned residential and commercial properties.

Our Housing Management team is putting in place an ambitious plan: to deliver excellent contractor procurement, deliver uncompromising levels of safety across the estate and to achieve our zero carbon emissions target by 2030. We’re looking for experienced, highly credible Procurement Managers to deliver lasting and needed change.

The Role:

A key member of a five-strong team, you will:

•    Advise and assist managers in the renewal and renegotiation of contracts across the business, helping drive the Council’s Procurement Strategy
•    Highlight to managers and staff those contracts which are due for renewal or retendering
•    Help create, implement and maintain the Contract register, running reports and disseminating information from the system for managers and partners
•    Produce Briefs and Specifications of Work on work streams identified for tendering from the planned programme.
•    Administer tenders (including OJEU tenders), keeping accurate records and audit trails of all tender correspondence.

For more information on the role, please see the Job Description

About You:

We are looking for an analytical, data-driven professional with a proven track record in procuring replacement and regeneration contracts. A CIPS (or similar) qualification is essential; as is an understanding of OJEU tendering. You’ll have experience work with frameworks and ideally be from a construction or housing background – in another local authority, or in the NHS, universities or schools.

In return, you can look forward to a package that includes a competitive salary, a high-quality pension scheme and generous annual leave plus bank holidays.

We work in partnership with Hampshire County Council (HCC) who deliver many transactional services on our behalf. Although most communications will be from HCC, all selection and appointment decisions will be made by RBKC. Certain services are shared across more than one Council area to nearby neighbouring Authorities. This enhances delivery and reduces costs. Your recruitment information will advise if your remit extends beyond RBKC.

We will primarily contact candidates by e-mail throughout the recruitment process, please monitor your email junk / spam folder as our system generated emails may be allocated to these folders by your email settings.

We engage our staff with a variety of learning types including face-to-face and virtual learning because we want to ensure our staff understand our values and behaviours, grow their skills and develop their careers.

Additional information

RBKC is currently inclusively reviewing its pay, reward and benefits framework.

This post is covered by the Fluency Duty, as outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers.

We are committed to promoting equality and respecting diversity and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

We are a Disability Confident Employer – committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.