Procurement & Contracts Manager

Historic Royal Palaces; Molesey; Hybrid; GBP 52,000; Full time

Job summary

A heritage organization in Molesey seeks a Procurement and Contracts Manager to oversee diverse categories and ensure compliance with regulations. The role offers flexible working and requires strong planning and stakeholder management skills. Experience in public sector procurement is advantageous. Salary of £51,209.29 per annum.

Qualifications

• Experience in public sector procurement is an advantage.
• Skills in managing procurement processes and contract negotiations.
• Knowledge of Public Procurement Regulations.

Responsibilities

• Manage procurement and contracting activity across diverse categories.
• Ensure compliance with Public Procurement Regulations.
• Lead management of procurement processes and contract negotiations.

Skills

Strong planning

Flexibility

Multi-tasking

Stakeholder management

Commercial awareness

Education

MCIPS (or equivalent)

Job description

Hampton Court Palace with some flexible / hybrid working available

Historic Royal Palaces (HRP) is a team of people who love and care for six remarkable buildings, preserving them for future generations and creating a space for spirits to stir and be stirred.

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.

You will have the opportunity to work flexibly across different sites (including a measure of home / hybrid working) with Hampton Court Palace as an office base with occasional travel to other palaces.

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

Salary: £51,209.29 per annum

Closing date: 23.55pm on 30 November 2025

Interviews: w/c 8 December 2025

Find out more and apply by visiting www.hrp.org.uk/recruitment

Historic Royal Palaces is an equal opportunities employer and truly values a diverse workforce.

Applications are welcome from candidates regardless of their background