Procurement Category Manager – Property

Manchester, Lancashire
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Based: Renaissance Court, 2 Christie Way, Didsbury, Manchester M21 7QY

Hours per week: 35

What you can expect from us

• Competitive salary of £ 42,300 per annum rising to £44,850 from 1st April)
• 32 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Opportunity to further increase annual leave with service or through the holiday purchase scheme.
• Immediate entry to our Pension scheme (matched contributions up to 10%).
• A great flexible working environment, with a range of family friendly policies.
• Simply Health cash plan with financial benefits and the option to extend to your family.Cover includes dental, optical, physiotherapy, 24HR private GP access and much more.
• Paid leave for absence including sickness, maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
• Access to a wide range of discounts and cash back offers, ranging from retail and automotive to holidays and cycle to work scheme.
• Develop your career with support and access to training and qualifications allowing you to develop your professional development to MRICS.

About the role

Our client is recruiting a Procurement Category Manager to manage the delivery of a consistently high quality, value for money services through a modern, resilient, customer focused procurement service.

This is a home-based role, but the successful candidate will be expected to attend office meetings, client meetings as required throughout the Northwest of England.

The role will focus on the end-to-end procurement life cycle, working with technical business stakeholders to develop the proposal, through to contract negotiation, bid evaluation, performance evaluation and contract management.

Our client has started a journey of developing best practice for contract and supplier management and there will be a great opportunity for the successful candidates to support and embed this work whilst learning and developing their skills with support from their peers and senior management. You will have access to performance and risk management software and reporting and will have the opportunity to lead some of this development across their platform and help deliver more for their customers.

They have also introduced a Social Value networking platform that has enabled them to connect businesses with their local community groups to deliver more outcomes through procurement. This comes at a great time ahead of the introduction of the new Procurement Act 2023.

They are ideally seeking a Procurement Category Manager who has a strong track record of category management across property or social housing sector focusing on investment and asset management including areas such as repairs and maintenance, retrofit and compliance management. Contracts could include a range of repairs and development frameworks from, fleet, waste, minor domestic works, and voids contracts.

Key responsibilities will include:

Procurement

Support, develop and manage the procurement of allocated categories, up to £25m, in line with internal and external regulation to enable the delivery of value for money. Working with stakeholders, project managing procurement pipeline and plans and execute sourcing, managing stakeholder expectations and category strategies.

Category Management

Provide specialist knowledge of the allocated categories ensuring value for money is delivered through new and existing commercial and contractual arrangements resulting in reduced risk and improved overall business outcomes.

Vendor Management

Implement a vendor management process to ensure a strong working relationship is in place with key vendors to ensure the business-to-business relationship is robust and managed effectively.

Negotiation

Negotiate and lead discussions, in conjunction with others if appropriate, relating to Operational Services.

Key skills and experience required for the role

• Demonstrable experience in Category Management activities for large and complex organisations preferably within social housing or public sector.
• An excellent understanding of the legislative and regulatory framework which applies to procurement within the Public Sector in producing tenders and contracts in particular JCT contract frameworks.
• Aware of the current agendas prevalent in local government and local government procurement and their practical implications on the role.
• Aware of the current issues and agendas specific to the category such as damp and mould, fire safety, cladding, and property repairs
• Experience of procuring complex and business critical contracts and services within this category in a public and/or private sector environment.
• Experience of working proactively to develop procurement services and improve systems.
• Experience of leading on Operational Services category management in a multi-site operation

Qualifications

CIPS qualified or working towards

About our client:

They are one of the largest registered providers of social housing in the Northwest, with 35,000 properties across in 52 neighbourhoods across the region.

They believe that everyone deserves a place to call their own, which is why our client is committed to building 500 new homes each year. They do more than just provide a roof over their customers’ heads, they are here to make a real difference.

In addition to creating positive spaces for their customers they continuously strive to create a positive and progressive workspace to enable their colleagues to achieve their full potential.

They embrace diversity and strive for diverse teams to create an inclusive culture which enables our client to thrive and be representative of the communities that they serve. They want to ensure that everybody has an opportunity to be part of their recruitment processes and will therefore make reasonable adjustments to accommodate their candidates.

If candidates have any questions in relation to the role at any stage of the recruitment and selection process they can contact the HR team via email and a member of the HR Team will be in touch.

Please note that we reserve the right to close the vacancy early prior to the closing date.