Procurement Assistant

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Being a Procurement Assistant

Are you an organised administrator with a keen eye for detail and a talent for working with data? Do you enjoy providing excellent customer service and supporting colleagues to deliver great outcomes?

As our Procurement Assistant, you’ll provide essential administrative and commercial support to our Procurement Team, helping us deliver efficient, compliant and value-for-money procurement across Kent Fire and Rescue Service.

Working across all procurement categories, you’ll support a wide range of activities including spend analysis, maintaining supplier and contract information, assisting with tendering exercises and helping ensure procurement information is published in line with legislation.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to build a career in procurement while developing valuable commercial, analytical and administrative skills within a supportive public sector organisation.

What you’ll do

• Provide administrative support to the Procurement Team across a range of procurement activities.
• Produce spend reports and maintain supplier, product and contract information.
• Manage the Procurement Helpdesk inbox and telephone enquiries.
• Support tendering and contract management activities.
• Coordinate meetings, maintain team records and update procurement information.
• Help ensure procurement information is published accurately and in line with legislative requirements.

What you’ll bring

• Experience providing administration support in a busy office environment.
• Excellent organisational, communication and customer service skills.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, including advanced Excel.
• A high level of accuracy and attention to detail when working with data.
• The ability to manage competing priorities and work proactively.
• A willingness to learn and contribute to improving processes and delivering excellent service.

Benefits

• Automatic membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme
• Blue Light Card discount scheme supported by a number of high street retailers
• A range of family friendly policies promoting work-life balance
• Access to health and wellbeing services and advice
• Free parking
• Above all you’ll become part of a service that is committed to the safety of our community

How to apply

Please complete an online application and CV by midnight on 31st July 2026.

Interview dates are the 11th, 12th and 14th August 2026 and will be in-person held at KFRS Service HQ.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy upon receiving a sufficient number of applications. If you are interested in this role we recommend that you submit your application at the earliest opportunity. 
 

Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do. We know that great minds don’t think alike, so we rely on diverse thoughts, feelings, beliefs and backgrounds to create the best working environment that we can possibly offer.

Kent Fire and Rescue Service, its employees and volunteers, are committed to safeguarding, protecting and supporting children, young people and adults at risk. As part of our safer recruitment process, we will undertake pre-employment checks to verify your suitability for the role. These checks will include your references and a standard or enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Enhanced DBS check with barred lists are carried out for roles with direct and unsupervised access to children, young people and adults at risk. Risk assessments will be undertaken on any disclosures identified as part of the pre-employment checks.

As a Public Sector organisation with added responsibilities under the Equality Act, 2010 the candidate must demonstrate an understanding of what is meant by Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and how this fits in with their everyday work.