About Us

Procurement Strategy & Services is part of the Finance, Procurement, Strategy & Analytics Directorate and was established to help the university deliver best value from its spending, ensure effective management and payment of suppliers, and to promote sustainable contracting practices.

About the Role

This is a newly created role, established in order to assist the Chief Procurement & Contracts Officer in the implementation of the Procurement Strategy.  In particular, the post holder will analyse the University’s expenditure on goods, services and construction works and provide advice on opportunities to reduce unnecessary expenditure, leverage expenditure and increase efficiency.  The post holder will also be required to produce sophisticated reports for stakeholders across the University which clearly explains the contractual expenditure in their area and report on savings and efficiencies achieved. The post officer will be required to engage with business areas to ensure compliant and effective purchasing and identify process and other changes that are required to meet this objective.

The post holder will report directly to the Chief Procurement & Contracts Officer and work very closely with their procurement colleagues and key stakeholders across the University.  

This is a full time post and you will be offered an indefinite contract working on hybrid basis.

About You

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

1. Able to use one or more business intelligence tools to an advanced standard, and in particular expert level in Power BI, and MS Excel;
2. Extensive finance systems user experience
3. Experience of managing multiple and complex projects simultaneously and delivering on time
4. Able to effectively visualise data to an advanced level and convey the outcome of the analysis in an engaging and sophisticated way
5. Able to apply critical thinking skills to place information into relevant context to derive insights and inform decision making;
6. Experience of working with a range of senior stakeholders to build levels of engagement and utilising data analytics effectively to influence outcomes;

Desirable criteria

Experience of using Unit 4/Business World Systems;

CIPS qualification or similar commercial experience;

An understanding of Purchase to Pay processes and systems;

Working knowledge of Higher Education Sector and current issues facing it.

Downloading a copy of our Job Description

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click “Apply Now”. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

Further Information

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.

We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's.

We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ‘How we Recruit’ pages.

We are able to offer sponsorship for candidates who do not currently possess the right to work in the UK