Summary

Notting Hill Genesis (NHG) is one of the leading Housing Associations in London. We're a naturally ambitious organisation - a social business with real commercial sense. We work in the community, providing homes for lower-income households across London and the Southeast.

The Senior Procurement Manager is a key part of Notting Hill Genesis (NHG), delivering the procurement programme through an effective business partnering approach. Ensuring it is delivered in a robust and commercially effective manner across NHG, effectively managing risks and ensuring that any goods, works and services align with NHG's core values while contributing to overall corporate success.

Main Responsibilities

The Procurement Department have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Senior Procurement Manager to join the team. Notting Hill Genesis (NHG) spend around £600 million per year with third parties. As a result, Procurement has become an increasingly vital service helping to drive compliance and commercial thinking, ensuring our spending power is maximised to deliver efficiencies and savings across the business.

As a Senior Procurement Manager, you will lead on complex procurement projects as well as manage, monitor, and coordinate the procurement forward plan alongside the Procurement Senior Management team. You will lead your team in developing and delivering the procurement programme through an effective business partnering approach and independently delivering a wide range of procurement projects, through a variety of procurement procedures.

The wide scope will ensure that your work is varied and challenging and will suit someone who is comfortable taking responsibility and enjoys building strong relationships.

Ideal Candidate

We believe great service starts with great people, and we are committed to recruiting and developing passionate, enthusiastic, and talented individuals who can add value to our thriving organisation.

We are looking for someone who has experience within procurement, preferably within the Housing sector. We are seeking someone who has delivered on complex above threshold tenders and has previous exposure to Find a Tender (FTS) compliant frameworks. You will be familiar with the new procurement regulations and have up to date knowledge of any new changes to help drive our procurement function.

You should have excellent knowledge of Public Contract Regulations (PCR's 2015) and available procurement procedures and their application in Charity / Social Housing context.

Confidence and good communication skills is key as you will be expected to build and manage effective relationships with both internal and external stakeholders. Most of all we need you to be a strong team player, capable of adapting to fluctuating workloads and being keen to assist colleagues when required.

You will be joining an established and vibrant team with an excellent focus and culture. If the idea of being part of a team which is committed to making a real impact is of interest, then we'd love to hear from you!

Benefits

In return we offer:

· Excellent annual leave allowance and flexible working opportunities (qualifying period may apply)

· Generous pension scheme

· Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay - we offer enhanced maternity and adoption pay in addition to statutory entitlements (qualifying period may apply)

· Employee assistance - free confidential advice and counselling services provided by independent specialist organisations

· Health cash plan

· Staff discounts - we give our staff access to discounts at hundreds of major retailers, gyms, restaurants, entertainment, days out, insurance and much more

· Interest free loans: season ticket loan, tenancy deposit loan and training loan

· Cycle to work scheme

· Life Assurance x 4 annual salary

Selection process

Step 1 If you are interested please send your application now

Step 2 Successful candidates will be selected for an interview and presentation

Please apply for this role with us online. If you are not able to apply online, please contact our HR team via to discuss your requirements.

Should a redeployee apply for this role; their application will be considered before any others.