Procurement Manager in Stockport

Permanent 

Full time (37 hours per week) 

Closing date: 5th May 2024

Interview date: To be confirmed

This role will be on Three Sixty hybrid T&Cs

Stockport Homes Group is a great place to work! We pride ourselves on building strong collaborative relationships locally, regionally and nationally. We are passionate about not only providing housing and building new homes in Stockport but helping to transform the lives of our customers. We aim to provide comfortable and affordable homes and engage customers and communities. 

We’re currently recruiting a brand-new role. Our Procurement Manager will work strategically to ensure SHG’s compliance with legal and regulatory requirements as well as achieving value for money and quality outcomes for customers. 

The key purpose of this position is to lead SHG’s overall approach to procurement, ensuring this is effective and compliant with all legislation. The successful candidate will develop a new set of Contract Procedure Rules and work with colleagues to ensure a Procurement Forward Plan is in place, regularly analysing expenditure and VFM outcomes. You will develop a Procurement Service Plan for SHG which links with a new Value for Money Strategy to ensure effective use of resources and positive outcomes for customers 

The Procurement Manager will be a great collaborator, confident decision maker and able to offer solutions to problems and recommendations. You will have a strategic mindset and be able to contribute to wider corporate projects as a trusted advisor and subject matter expert. 

As the Procurement Manager, you will be responsible for: 

• Being SHG’s procurement expert and leading the procurement service, ensuring that it is robust, and that all procurement activity is undertaken in compliance with the Procurement Act 2023 and related legislation 

• Ensuring SHG’s Procurement Service Plan and Contract Procedure Rules are fit for purpose and that procurement activity is in line with SHG’s Financial Regulations, VFM Strategy & EDI Strategy 

• Working proactively with stakeholders to develop and maintain SHG’s Contract Register and Procurement Forward Plan to ensure that effective and efficient procurement and contract management activity is delivered 

• Undertaking pre-procurement research to fully understand the markets in which SHG operates to ensure tenders can be structured in the most advantageous way with commercial risks managed effectively 

• Ensuring there are robust contracts and agreed contract management arrangements in place, with effective supplier relationships being developed and maintained across the life of the contract 

• An unwavering commitment to customer experience and excellence (including leaseholders), particularly for contracts where key services are delivered directly to customers by third parties 

• Working with Contract Leads to produce high quality tender and contract documents, working collaboratively with others (including external advisors where required) to ensure contracts are awarded based on fair competition and value for money 

Our ideal candidate will have: 

• A relevant professional qualification (for example MCIPS), or be qualified by experience at a senior level, and have a commitment to ongoing Continued Professional Development (CPD) 

• Expert knowledge of procurement legislation and best practice with the ability to successfully apply this to a range of business scenarios 

• Proven experience of working with public procurement legislation, establishing tendering and contract management processes which can be followed by others to ensure compliance 

• Experience of leading and managing end-to-end procurement activity with comprehensive knowledge of different tender approaches and innovative solutions to obtain best value for money / social value and agreed outcomes 

• Strong knowledge and understanding of the public sector, in particular of local government / social housing / not-for-profit organisations and current issues in these sectors 

• Experience of leading and managing end-to-end procurement activity with comprehensive knowledge of different tender approaches and innovative solutions to obtain best value for money / social value and agreed outcomes 

• Strong IT / digital skills including competent use of Microsoft Office / SharePoint / OneDrive as well as bespoke systems including e-procurement portals and other similar software 

It is important to us that we have a diverse workforce, representative of the communities we work in. Equality, diversity and inclusion is important to us and we like to acknowledge that everyone is different. We’re always looking to improve diversity within our teams and across the group, so we would welcome any applications from any underrepresented groups. 

In accordance with the aims of our Equality and Diversity strategy and organisational commitment to address the employment of underrepresented groups, we are operating an Ethnic Minority Guaranteed Interview Scheme (GIS). This means that we aim to invite to interview anyone who has highlighted themselves as an ethnic minority that meets the essential criteria for this role 

We reserve the right to close this recruitment if it is deemed that we have received a suitable number of applications and will be interviewing throughout the recruitment process.