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Join the prestigious V&A as a Procurement Professional and contribute to the museum's mission and sustainability goals.
Overview
Salary
£40000 - £50000
Location
Cromwell Road, London
Expires
Expires at anytime
The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), the world's leading museum of art and design, invites an adept procurement professional to join its team. The V&A boasts an extensive collection that spans 5,000 years of human creativity and is committed to being the foremost museum for art, design, and performance, aiming to inspire and educate through its collections.
- Procure a wide array of services, works, and goods, supporting exciting capital projects and essential services.
- Embed new Procurement Regulations and aid the V&A in its Net Zero 2035 goal.
- Collaborate across departments to deliver value-driven procurement solutions.
- Proven experience in procurement within a similar environment.
- Capability to handle a diverse range of procurement activities.
- Commitment to the museum's sustainability goals and regulations.
- Flexibility to work on a part-time basis if desired, stating your preferred working days.
As an employer, the V&A offers a range of benefits including a generous pension scheme, flexible working, discounted tickets, staff canteen, and shop discounts, participation in the 'Give as you earn' scheme, bicycle and season ticket loans, and a variety of training and development opportunities. Staff diversity is celebrated with dedicated networks and support programs.
The Role The V&A is seeking a talented and creative procurement professional to join the Procurement Department as a key member of the team. We spend around £70 million per year on services, works and goods from third parties; from exciting capital projects to essential services and everything else in between. Working as part of a small team, you will be an important part of a procurement service that works with people across the V&A to help it meet its mission.
Based at V&A South Kensington, you will work on a wide range of projects, help embed the new Procurement Regulations, and work with departments to play a key part in helping the V&A to meet its goal of Net Zero 2035. With such a varied remit sat within an exciting cultural environment, you will play a pivotal role at the V&A by working with key people across the organisation to deliver innovative procurement solutions that maximise value.
This post is based at V&A South Kensington but will involve working on procurement activity across all V&A sites. Part time applications are welcome. Please specify in your application if you are applying on a part-time basis and include your desired number of working days based on a 7hr12m net working day. V&A policy currently requires staff to spend a minimum of 60% of working time on site in any calendar month.
The V&A The V&A is the world’s leading museum of art and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects, books and archives that span over 5,000 years of human creativity. The museum holds many of the UK's national collections and houses some of the greatest resources for the study of architecture, furniture, fashion, textiles, photography, sculpture, painting, jewellery, glass, ceramics, book arts, Asian art and design, theatre and performance.
Our mission is to be recognised as the world's leading museum of art, design and performance, and to enrich people's lives by promoting research, knowledge and enjoyment of the designed world to the widest possible audience.
Benefits Generous pension scheme 29 days plus bank holidays Flexible working Tickets to V&A exhibitions Subsidised staff canteen 25% discount in V&A shops Give as you earn scheme Bicycle loan Interest-free season ticket Interest-free rental deposit loan Free safety checks and small repairs to your bike with Doctor Bike Wide range of training and professional development opportunities Employee Assistance Programme Staff diversity networks
