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About the Role
Manage a varied portfolio of tenders across categories, working alongside Strategic Procurement Managers. Serve as the go-to person for best-practice tender advice, creating strong documentation, running a clean process, and ensuring compliance with the Procurement Act 2023. This role is for someone who enjoys variety and wants their work to make a difference.
Responsibilities
- Manage a portfolio of procurement projects that are fair, transparent, proportionate and compliant
- Help shape sourcing strategies, including routes to market and lotting, with creative, value-for-money ideas
- Ensure consideration is given to lowering barriers for SMEs
- Develop and review tender documentation, and run the tender query process with a full audit trail
- Advise and support project managers who run smaller "self-service" tenders
- Keep the procurement pipeline accurate and up to date with stakeholders
- Support larger, strategic procurements, including moderations, presentations and bidder dialogue sessions
- Take oversight of selected key contracts and help colleagues apply the terms correctly
- Build sustainability and social value into procurements, and improve tender processes
- Apply procurement governance so decisions are auditable and audit-ready
Requirements
- Experience managing end-to-end procurement across a range of categories, ideally using e-tendering software
- Strong grasp of public sector procurement and Public Procurement Regulations
- Excellent organisational skills, attention to detail and numeracy
- Clear written and verbal communication, including the ability to deliver training
- Solution-focused approach and a willingness to innovate and improve processes
Skills
- Procurement
- Tender management
- Sourcing strategies
- Documentation development
- Audit trails
- Stakeholder management
- Contract management
- Sustainability
- Social value
- Procurement governance
- E-tendering software
- Public sector procurement
- Public Procurement Regulations
- Organisational skills
- Attention to detail
- Numeracy
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
- Training delivery
- Problem-solving
- Innovation
Location
- Remote
- Hybrid
- Onsite
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Mid-level
Education Level
- CIPS qualified or working towards it is desirable
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary
Benefits
- Pension
- Performance related bonus
- Flexible working
- Market leading family policies
- Shopping discounts in the West End
- Private healthcare
- Life cover
- Critical illness cover
- 28 days holiday
- Option to buy more holiday
About the Company
- Every great project at The Crown Estate, from a Mayfair building to an offshore energy programme, starts with a fair, transparent and well-run procurement.
Equal Opportunity
- We are a proud disability confident employer and operate the offer of interview scheme Disability Confident employer scheme - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
- We are happy to offer alternative application methods or formats and can be flexible on our process to enable you to have the best opportunity.
- If you have any questions about our recruitment process or would like to talk about adjustments, please contact us directly, or at careers@thecrownestate.co.uk