Procurement Advisor

Red Kite Community Housing Limited; High Wycombe; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Red Kite Community Housing Limited is looking for an experienced procurement professional to support compliance and data-driven decisions. You will keep regulatory knowledge current, collaborate with stakeholders, and drive improvements in data access and spend reporting.

The role involves maintaining contract storage and guiding teams through tender processes using standard templates. You will be the main point of contact for procurement queries, helping colleagues access information and

Qualifications

• 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 / tendering experience.

Responsibilities

• Ensure knowledge of internal and external compliance areas is up to date; join collaborative procurement groups to grow expertise and build relationships.
• Develop and manage an improvement plan to facilitate access to required procurement and financial data sets; create and maintain spend data records for PA23 Notices.
• Ensure contract storage arrangements (physical and electronic) are up to date, coordinating with the team administrator.
• Use standard tender document templates for below threshold tenders and guide stakeholders in sourcing exercises in line with Governance Regulations.
• Keep priority operational documents up to date and share with stakeholders (Contracts Register, Procurement Delivery Plan, Supplier Spend Report).
• Act as the primary point of contact for procurement enquiries, improving access to information and ensuring consistent corporate communications messaging with the team administrator.

Skills

Regulated procurement experience

Collaboration

Attention to detail

Presentation skills

Executive papers drafting

CIPS Level 2

Education

CIPS Level 2

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