Procurement Advisor

Red Kite Community Housing; High Wycombe; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Red Kite Community Housing in United Kingdom is seeking a procurement professional to strengthen governance and compliance in sourcing and data management. The role focuses on keeping contracts and data up to date and guiding stakeholders through below-threshold tender processes.

You will collaborate with internal teams and external partners to deliver clear, compliant procurement outputs and maintain executive-level documentation as needed.

Qualifications

• Recent experience in a similar role within a regulated environment.
• Excellent collaboration skills with a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders.
• High level of attention to detail due to the compliance nature of outputs.
• Very good use of presentation styles within reports and spreadsheets; able to draft Executive level papers with minimal oversight.
• Has achieved CIPS Level 2 or can evidence similar supplier sourcing/tender experience.

Responsibilities

• Ensure knowledge of relevant compliance areas is up to date and engage with procurement groups.
• Develop and manage improvement plans to enable access to procurement and financial data sets.
• Maintain up-to-date contract storage (physical and electronic) in collaboration with the team administrator.
• Use standard tender templates for below-threshold tenders and guide stakeholders accordingly.
• Keep priority operational documents current and share with stakeholders as needed.
• Act as the primary point of contact for procurement enquiries and support governance messaging.

Skills

Stakeholder collaboration

Attention to detail

Presentation skills

Executive papers drafting

Education

CIPS Level 2 or equivalent sourcing/tender experience

Job description

• Ensure your knowledge of all relevant internal and external compliance areas is up to date. Join existing collaborative procurement groups to continually grow your expertise and build relationships.
• Develop and manage an improvement plan to facilitate the team in accessing and using required procurement and financial data sets. Create and manage up to date records of spend data required to submit all relevant PA23 Notices.
• Ensure our contract storage arrangements, both physical and electronic, are up to date - collaborating with the team administrator accordingly.
• Use our standard tender document templates when assisting with running below threshold tenders, and give appropriate guidance when stakeholders are running their own sourcing exercises, aligned with internal Governance Regulations.
• Ensure priority operational documents are continually up to date and communicate / share them with stakeholders when relevant (e.g. Contracts Register, Procurement Delivery Plan, Supplier Spend Report).
• Act as the primary point of contact for procurement enquiries, improving colleagues' access to information to reduce unnecessary contact. Proactively share key information and guidance, recommend appropriate process improvements, and work alongside the team administrator to ensure consistent corporate communications messaging.

Qualifications, skills and experience

• Proven, recent experience in a similar role within a regulated environment.
• Excellent collaboration skills working with a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders.
• High level of attention to detail is required for this role due to the compliance nature of the outputs.
• Very good use of presentation styles within reports and spreadsheets. Ability to draft Executive level papers with minimal need for oversight.
• Has achieved CIPS Level 2 or can evidence similar supplier sourcing / tending experience.Recent