An excellent opportunity has arisen for a Procurement Lead to join our Procurement team. This role provides a unique opportunity to create change and deliver a professional, compliant, customer focused procurement service. A passion and enthusiasm for procurement and all that we represent is a must!
Responsibilities will include developing and implementing multi-site sourcing strategies for high spend and high risk areas, as well as management of key suppliers to drive performance and ensure that social value and value for money principles are embedded throughout the tendering and contract process. Promoting procurement best practice throughout the organisation will also be a key activity and therefore, strong stakeholder engagement and relationship building is essential.
We are looking for a self-motivated individual who tackles challenges with a pragmatic and enthusiastic approach, with a strong background in strategic and operational procurement ideally including public contracts procurement. The ideal candidate will have experience of managing a diverse portfolio of spend, challenging the status quo and offering suitable and improved alternative opportunities.
If you start with us before Monday 1 April 2024, your salary will be up to £40,586 per annum until the end of March 2024.
Rebecca Baxter is our Procurement & Performance Manager, so if you fancy an informal chat about the role, why not give her a call on 07870 973699.
Closing date for applications is Monday 11 March 2024, applications will be reviewed throughout the duration of the advert and we may close it early should enough applications be received. We are not working with recruitment agencies on this vacancy.
Who is Beyond Housing?
Our story began in 2018 and we’d like you to be part of our future. With over 15,000 homes, 30,000 customers and 750 colleagues, we’re changing lives every day. Our mission is simple; to provide homes customers want, services they value, delivered by people who care. We want to help our customers and communities to succeed and thrive. Considerate, collaborative, ambitious and accountable – that’s just our way of life.
Our offices are more than just the space we work in. We encourage inspiration, creativity and productivity in a relaxed and comfortable environment. We’re looking for people who are travelling in the same direction when it comes to the way we work, live our values and deliver our services. Our reward and recognition offer is pretty impressive too!
We have ambitious plans for further growth and impact, and we need the right people to take this leap with us. It may be challenging at times, but you can be assured that it is going to be rewarding and inspiring. After all, we are changing lives, every day, in all that we do.
Our values and extremely important to us and we want all our colleagues to really live our values every day, we are looking for candidates who show they have the skills to do the role and are aligned with our values.
At Beyond Housing, we are committed to ensuring that all applicants are treated fairly throughout our recruitment and selection processes and are not discriminated against on the grounds of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.
Why choose us?
The team here at Beyond Housing genuinely care about the work we do to transform the lives of our customers. We think this is a pretty big reason to love your career at Beyond Housing, and that’s why our benefits package shows Beyond Housing genuinely cares about its teams too.
Our people are our best asset, so we want to make sure your wellbeing is the best it can be. Our responsibilities as an employer extend beyond the workplace, we want to make sure we can help and support you when you need it most.
So here goes:
- Flexible working patterns to suit your commitments
- Generous holiday entitlement
- Impressive salaries with incremental pay increases for most colleagues
- Commitment to paying the Real Living Wage for our staff
- Competitive pension scheme with generous employer contributions
- Life assurance to look after your loved ones
- Health plan
- A much needed caffeine boost with free tea and coffee (and cordial for when you’re feeling parched)
- Cycle to work scheme (if you’ve got the legs for it)
- Annual cost of living pay rise
- Agile working – to give you that positive work life balance.
- Rather not work the normal 9 – 5? If you have a working pattern that you would prefer, please discuss this with us and we might be able to support.
