Procurement Category Manager

Salary: £57,003 - £60,003

Location: Ealing office base with hybrid working

Contract: Permanent, 35 hours per week. DBS check required: Basic

Role Overview

We are looking for a Procurement Category Manager to join our dedicated Procurement department. As the Procurement Category Manager, you will join the growing procurement team as they strengthen the group’s procurement function.

Key responsibilities:

• Supporting the Procurement Business Partner/ Head of Category in delivering the relevant category strategies, as well as taking ownership of various sub-categories, including leading end to end tender projects, management of framework agreements and other projects where appropriate.
• Work closely with Head of Procurement Operations to enable a smooth transition to the new procurement regulations and contract management system.
• Carry out category and sub-category support activities (via category strategies) as directed by line management.
• Liaise with wider organisation and colleagues to ensure consistent and compliant approach to procurement and contract management.
• Overseeing successful contract implementations, attending scheduled contract review meetings with the internal stakeholders to support them in ensuring that supplier performance is being met against the agreed SLA’s and KPI’s.
• Providing solutions to contract related problems.
• Following up with the internal stakeholders and supply chain on actions resulting from performance review meetings.
• To develop/maintain appropriate supplier and customer relationships in line with agreed strategy for a specific category or sub-category under best practice contract management model.
• Effective coordination of Category Management activity to ensure delivery of overall team objectives, including monitoring activities within ECM (Enterprise Contract Management portal in D365 and P2P).

More about you

• Educated to GCSE level or equivalent in Math’s and English (Grades A*- C).
• MCIPS accredited or graduate caliber with a desire to undertake Professional Stage CIPS qualification.
• Experience of performance monitoring and reporting against policy/project/contractual or SLA requirements.
• Experienced in leading a range of public procurement procedures and sound understanding of the Public Procurement Regulations 2015 and forthcoming Procurement Act 2024.
• Experienced in developing and successful delivery of Corporate and Professional Services procurements, contract management, realizing cashable and non-cashable benefits, influencing and making recommendations.
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) to enable the development relationships both internally and externally.
• Experience of pre and post commercial administration of contracts and managing supplier performance.
• IT Skills – Good working knowledge of current category platforms as well as standard MS Office platforms and Tendering Portals.

About us

We’re a UK housing association committed to a vision – providing homes people love to live in. With over 38,000 homes in management across London and southern England, we provide a wide range of homes for social, affordable and private rent, specialist housing services, as well as homes for sale and shared ownership. Our 70,000 customers have diverse backgrounds and levels of income and we’re here to provide all of them with homes that are safe, high quality and sustainable. And with social housing roots going back eight decades, we continue to ensure that every penny of profit we make is reinvested into our charitable social purpose – delivering more homes and better services for customers. We’re also members of the G15, a group of leading housing associations and tackle the housing crisis.

Choosing us is easy

As an employee of A2Dominion, we want you to feel rewarded and have a choice of flexible benefits, salary exchange benefits, and rewards and discounts that work for you, wherever you are in your life. We offer a wide range of staff benefits. For this role, these include:

• 25 days’ holiday (Plus Bank Holidays) increasing up to 28 days with 3 years of service prorated based on months worked.
• Up to 8% contributory pension.
• Flexible working.
• In addition, all permanent and fixed-term employees receive a generous annual allowance of up to £300 to use towards health and lifestyle benefits for both you and your family.

Diversity & Inclusion

We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. Our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, and we guarantee an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria. Reasonable adjustments are available throughout the process - just contact our Resourcing Team at resourcing@a2dominion.co.uk. We know some people hesitate to apply if they don’t meet every requirement. If that’s you, we encourage you to apply if your skills and experience align – please get in touch with us to talk it through. At A2Dominion, we value diversity, embrace flexibility, and are a family-friendly employer. Everyone belongs here. Join us and help make a lasting difference in the lives of our customers.

Resourcing Partner

This vacancy is being managed by Ryan Loasby – ryan.loasby@a2dominion.co.uk