Procurement & Contracts Manager, Historic Royal Palaces

This is an exciting time to join HRP where we are pursuing a new strategy to become a charity for everyone. Our focus is on extending reach, widening access, and inclusive history. We can't do this without the fundamental key support of functions such as our procurement and contracts team in providing the necessary professional advice to teams in their work, protecting our income and expenditure across the organisation and ensuring best value for money is achieved.

We are looking for someone to join our team which as well as Procurement has a remit covering Property Management and Commercial contracts across HRP, led by the Head of Procurement and Contracts.

Your key responsibility will be focusing on procurement and contracting activity which covers an eclectic mix of categories such as marketing, uniforms, visitor catering, live interpretation and public event production, consultancy, professional services and training to name but a few.
This is a generalist role, with a rough estimate encompassing £30m income / expenditure related contracts per year.

This involves working across all our sites, namely Hampton Court Palace, HM Tower of London, Kensington Palace, Kew Palace, Banqueting House and Hillsborough Castle and Gardens.

The role will focus on higher value and more complex work and involve providing a professional, flexible and efficient service including leading the management of procurement processes and contract negotiations, end to end, ensuring compliance with Public Procurement Regulations where relevant.

Strong planning, flexibility and multi-tasking skills, stakeholder management and commercial awareness are needed to ensure success in this role, as is an awareness of framework contract offerings from providers such as Crown Commercial Services and the London Universities Purchasing Consortium.

Having experience of public sector procurement would be an advantage as would being MCIPS (or equivalent) qualified or along the pathway.