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Senior Procurement Officer

Employer
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC)
Location
London (Greater) - RB Kensington & Chelsea
Salary
£32,600 - £44,200 per annum
Closing date
28 Feb 2021

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Function
Homes and Asset Management, Procurement
Seniority
Officer
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Organisation Type
Local authority

Job Details

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 an ambitious, positive professional with a real appetite for procurement to play a key part in delivering vital change and leaving a proud legacy.

The Role:

This is a great opportunity to take the key next step in your procurement career. You’ll use your rapport-building skills and natural team spirit to:

  • Monitor procurement activity and source suitably qualified service and works providers
  • Undertake core procurement processes to ensure compliant working practices in line with the Council’s Procurement Regulations, Procurement Strategy and the Public Contract Regulations 2015 (PCR)
  • Take responsibility for project managing procurement processes to deliver the works and services to the highest standard
  • Lead the procurement of straightforward works or services including initiating, documentating, drafting and issuing contract notices and tender documents, – managing the evaluation and preparation of the award of contract documentation to deadlines
  • Act as the contact point for all pre-qualification and tender queries, liaising with members of the project team.

To apply, please visit our website via the button below.

About You:

We’re looking for some initial procurement experience – ideally in a large, public sector organisation. But what matters more are your personal skills. You’ll be a natural relationship-builder who’s happy client-facing and working with lots of different teams across our complex organisation. You’ll be able to positively challenge internal and external stakeholders – including those more senior than you.

On the more technical side, you’ll be comfortable gathering data, analysing and interpreting complex financial information, and able to assimilate and apply information relating to service delivery.

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.

Company

About Us

Kensington and Chelsea is one of London’s most vibrant and recognisable boroughs. It has many unique buildings, famous museums and beautiful parks. Although the borough is geographically one of the smallest in London, at just over 4.7 square miles, it is one of the most densely populated and diverse areas in Europe. It is home to the world-famous Notting Hill Carnival. Kensington and Chelsea Council (also known as RBKC) aims to provide high quality services to improve the lives of its residents and to make the borough a better place in which to live, work, and visit.

Housing and Grenfell

This department is responsible for housing, communities and improving the lives of local residents.  This includes landlord services and estate management, planning, refurbishment, and advice and support to help maintain healthy and safe homes.

A significant part of our work is focused on creating stronger communities, by working together with local residents on recovery following the Grenfell tragedy.  

In response to London’s affordable homes crisis, we are committed to building more social housing to help people on lower incomes to live, work, and raise their families in the borough. Housing also covers landlord services and estate management, planning, refurbishment, and advice and support to help maintain healthy and safe homes.

Our housing team also work closely with affordable housing providers and other agencies to manage homelessness and give support to older residents to live independently.  Find out more about our vacancies here.

Company info
Website
Telephone
020 7361 3011
Location
Third Floor, Town Hall
Hornton Street
London
London
London
W8 7NX
United Kingdom

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