Procurement Co-ordinator

When we started Kensington we were the first specialist lender to offer mortgages to people the high street turned down. Nearly 25 years later, we’re the UK’s leading residential specialist mortgage lender still blazing a trail offering people the chance to get a mortgage.

Where high street lenders see black and white, we’ve always used our expertise and manual underwriting capability to see the shades in between. In a market where changing lifestyles mean more people are falling outside the traditional mortgage criteria, it’s an approach that can make a real difference to people who want to own a property.

It’s what we call the Kensington Difference.

Your Role

We are looking for a dynamic and well organised individual to join the Procurement team based in Maidenhead as a Co-ordinator. The main focus of the role is to provide administrative support to the Procurement team during the transition to the new purchase order and invoice processing system.

Your Tasks

• Maintaining departmental work in progress calendar, supporting on-going activities to ensure that objectives / initiatives are met
• Maintaining and update the contracts database ensuring its accuracy
• Assisting in planning and analyzing the best suppliers in the market that meet the business’s needs
• Assisting with the preparation of stakeholder supplier packs at each stage of the supplier / contract process
• Supporting the Procurement Manager with rolling out new operational processes, driving stakeholder engagement
• Supporting with ad-hoc projects both procurement / supplier related and across the business
• Acting as point of contact from internal and external stakeholders
• Managing on-boarding of Suppliers. Working with the BRM’s ensuring the correct level of due diligence in carried out

Your Skills & Experience

We are looking for employees who share our passion to make a difference and scratch under the surface to find the not obvious solutions. We are keen to see applications from candidates who can demonstrate:

• Experience within a similar role with a desire to expand such experience within a developing team
• End to end Procurement process understanding
• Excellent people and communications skills
• Ability to work and adapt to a constantly changing and fast paced environment
• Highly organized with a good eye for attention to detail
• Possess a 'can-do’ and problem solving attitude, and have confidence to use own initiative
• Exposure to or knowledge of commercial contracts would be advantageous
• High level of competence in Excel is essential

Your Opportunity

Our employees are critical to our success. We work hard to ensure that Kensington Mortgages is a great place to work. We recognise the difference it makes to our business when people challenge themselves and take advantage of the development opportunities available so we try and support everyone however we can.

We also recognise the fact that people seek work - life balance and continuously develop our benefits offering to create an inclusive and supportive culture where differences that exist between us all are recognised, understood and valued.

If you want to make a Difference, apply now.