The role
Crown Estate Scotland has an exciting opportunity for a Procurement Manager to join our team on a permanent fulltime basis.
By joining the Crown Estate Scotland team, you'll be surrounded by dedicated and talented individuals who are passionate about what they do, giving you the opportunity to learn and develop. You'll be working alongside like-minded individuals who are working towards achieving the shared goal of making Scotland a better place.
About the role
The successful candidate/s for this new role within the organisation will be responsible for:
· Managing/administer of procurement activities/ processes (in collaboration with end users
· Input to regular reports on procurement activities for Executive Team and Audit & Risk Committee (provide source data, draft reports)
· Working with outsourced service providers to ensure procurements undertaken on behalf of CES are done so in accordance with CES procurement policy and relevant Scottish public sector regulations and requirements.
· Suggesting periodic updates/ improvements to CES procurement strategy/ policy
· Representing CES in external procurement networks and activities where required or appropriate.
· Administration of all procurement related activities
· To support, ensuring all procurement activities (including those delivered by outsourced partners (e.g. Managing Agents) satisfy regulatory and legal requirements
· Maintain the CES Contracts Register, ensuring business-wide compliance and engagement and that our register is complete and current at all times.
· Support production of Annual Procurement Report
The contractual working location of this role is our Edinburgh office. However, we believe work is something you do, not a place you go to, and we are committed to supporting employees to work flexibly and in a way that suits their role and preferences.
The starting salary will be £37,994 with potential for future progression as well as eligibility of annual cost of living rises. The maximum salary for this role is currently £43,773. The role also benefits from 25 days' annual leave, increasing to 30 days after four years' service, plus 11.5 of public/ privilege days. Crown Estate Scotland encourage flexible working and operate a discretionary flexi-time scheme. This role offers participation in the Civil Service pension scheme.
At Crown Estate Scotland we believe that continuous learning and development helps us to do our best in work and build professional skills and expertise. We offer a range of training opportunities delivered by external training providers and in-house experts and provide all employees with access to LinkedIn Learning. We also support individuals to pay professional membership fees relevant to their roles and aim to support additional study and learning requests wherever possible.
As well as helping you to develop professionally, we also support your personal development through our 'Wellbeing Matters' programme with its focus on four important pillars of wellbeing – physical, emotional, social, and financial.
About You
You should have experience in:
· Regular management of administrative task
· Public sector procurement
· Use of the Scottish Government Procurement Journey
· Use of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015
· Use of the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014
· Contract scoping, tendering, negotiation
· Managing contract delivery
· Formal reporting
· Experience of wide range of contract types (goods, services, works)
· Experience of using PCS, Scotland Excel, Crown Commercial Service systems and frameworks
· Practitioner level, UK Government Commercial Skills & Competency Framework
· 3 years + experience of managing procurement systems within the public sector.
· Educated to degree level, (BSc/BA) or equivalent
· Experience throughout contract life cycle – scoping, procurement/ negotiation, contract delivery
You will have the following qualities, which are key to success in this role:
· Negotiation/ influencing and good communication skills
· Attention to detail
· Strong team worker
· Ability and confidence to hit the ground running
· Confidence in dealing with senior leadership (Internal or external)
About us
We manage property – including buildings, land, coastline and seabed – on behalf of people of Scotland. Our purpose is to invest in property, natural resources and people to generate lasting value for Scotland. Our profits go to Scottish public spending.
We work in a way that:
· Generates prosperity and value for all of Scotland;
· Supports the growth of sustainable business and industry in Scottish seas and on the coast;
· Makes places better for those who live, work and visit there;
· Promotes sustainable ways of producing energy, food, and other products; and
· Creates opportunities for people to use and benefit from the Scottish Crown Estate.
Our values of Integrity, Excellence, Collaboration and Commercialism help us to put our purpose into practice. They shape how we work, underpin our actions, and help to make Crown Estate Scotland a great place to work.
By joining the Crown Estate Scotland team, you'll be surrounded by dedicated and talented individuals who are passionate about what they do, giving you the opportunity to learn and develop. You'll be working alongside like-minded individuals who are working towards achieving the shared goal of making Scotland a better place.
Crown Estate Scotland is committed to diversity and inclusion, and we encourage applications from people from all backgrounds. We want to ensure every candidate has a positive experience and can most effectively demonstrate their suitability for the role they are applying for. Please tell us if there are any reasonable adjustments we can make to help you in your application or with our recruitment and selection process.
We welcome requests to work on a job share basis.
To apply visit our website.
Closing date: 5 October 2025.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £37,994.00 per year
Work Location: In person