Procurement Manager

We are One Housing and we create places for people to call home and support them to live well. With a breadth of services and expertise to help people whatever their housing, care, or support needs.

Our Procurement team is friendly and we love what we do. We are passionate about the high-quality support we provide.

We offer our colleagues a flexible, collaborative workplace and the chance to build a rewarding career with a not-for-profit organisation that is proud to make a genuine difference to people’s lives, each and every day.

Join our Procurement team as a Procurement Manager (Digital & Transformation)

Smooth-running, dependable and value for money systems are essential to any modern and flexible organisation. This is particularly so for One Housing. With our various departments, locations and diverse services, One Housing encounter a broad range of changing requirements and fresh challenges.

The role will involve supporting the Director of Procurement in the ongoing development of a      strategic and professional procurement team that acts as a centre of commercial expertise for One Housing. 

A primary objective of the role is to support the delivery of measurable cost savings and efficiencies on third party IT related expenditure including both business as usual and key transformational projects. 

Key to this role will be building strong and effective relationships with the Digital Transformation Director, IT Operations Director and the Chief Information Officer to deliver a pipeline of projects in support of the business wide Change and Transformation Programme. 

We offer the opportunity to put your problem-solving skills and technical knowledge to fantastic use, in support of an organisation with a social purpose and strong values.

We keep our promises; we do a great job; we value diversity; we work together; and we look for ways to improve. These are what make us such a great team, working together as one to achieve our vision.

The Role

We have a fantastic opportunity for someone to join us in the position of Procurement Manager. Your responsibilities are as follows:

• Support the Director of Procurement in meeting value for money and social value targets.
• Procurement of goods and services in an effective and economical way to support continuous business process improvement and to achieve value for money for One Housing.
• Provide advice, guidance and support throughout One Housing to ensure procurement processes are compliant, effective and provide best possible value.
• To instigate and evolve a Digital and Transformation Category Strategy, gaining buy in and input from key stakeholders.
• Ensure procurement occurs in accordance with statutory regulations and best practice guidance.
• Deliver effective procurement to comply with framework and bespoke procurement methods.
• Responsible for managing the procurement and tendering of a range of goods and services through implementation of innovative procurement strategies.
• In collaboration with stakeholders, initiate and maintain relationships with critical suppliers to remain abreast of new products and innovation to give One Housing a competitive advantage.
• Support the business to apply total cost of ownership principles in all procurements and throughout the existing supply chain, which is reflected in the business case life cycle process

• Form strategic partnerships with key suppliers, sharing supplier/One Housing technology roadmaps to maximise contractual performance.

What you will need to Succeed

We are looking for someone who believes in working together as part of a team, who shares our values and who demonstrates a friendly, positive demeanour. The successful candidate will demonstrate the following:

• It is essential that you will be from a public sector/not for profit/charitable IT procurement background and be able to demonstrate a substantial working history in this area
• Degree educated and MCIPS (or working towards) – also essential, an active CIPS membership is required
• Advanced knowledge and demonstrable experience of leading on a range of successful over threshold ‘OJEU’ procurements utilising a range of procedures i.e. open, restricted, competitive dialogue, etc
• A good practical knowledge of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015
• Extensive experience of delivering cost savings and efficiencies through procurement and supply chain activity.
• Proven ability to identify cost saving opportunities through well-developed spend analysis and category management skills.
• Well-developed relationship management and influencing skills with the ability to build effective working relationships with stakeholders at all levels of seniority.
• Strong literacy, numeracy skills and the ability to produce high quality written reports and procurement strategies that are tailored to the recipient.
• Understanding of supply chain logistics.
• Experience of sustainable procurement and aware of the relevant laws surrounding social value and the localism agenda.
• Procurement experience within the housing sector would be desirable

The Offer

Our Life@One benefits offer you an array of perks designed with your wellbeing in mind.

Salary: £60,000

Your holidays are important to us. Take up to 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays.

Lean travel. Spread the cost of your commute with a season ticket loans and our Cycle2Work scheme, open to all colleagues

Looking forward to your big bucket list trip? You can buy or sell up to five days annual leave each year.

Get paid to do good. We offer you two days off on full pay each year to volunteer in our communities.

Look after your loved ones. Our healthcare cash back plan allows you to claim back cash for you and your family’s healthcare.

Well done! With our colleague recognition programme you will know when you’ve done a #greatjob

Learning never stops. One Academy, our innovative, in-house learning and development offering is designed to help you take your career to the next level.

We’re here for you. Our employee assistance programme offers counselling and support for you and your family 24/7.

Stay book-smart. Take up to five paid days off per year to study toward a relevant qualification.

Experience new things. We offer you a career break after 3 years’ continuous service.

About Us

As an organisation with a strong social purpose, One Housing works in some of the most diverse communities in the UK and their workforce reflects that. We understand the strength we gain from having and supporting our diverse teams. The different skills and experiences that our colleagues from different backgrounds bring to us allow us to make better decisions, consider different views and be an altogether more interesting and cohesive place to work.

We welcome applications from everyone.