Procurement Manager

This role is based at our client's Head Office in Finsbury Park with some flexibility to work from home for one day per week after a successful probation period. Come and join this housing association as their Procurement Manager and play a pivotal role in helping them deliver safe, high-quality homes and services for their residents. This is an exciting opportunity for a commercially minded procurement professional to lead a strategic function, shape organisational best practice, and secure real value through compliant, effective and forward-thinking procurement.

Reporting to the Head of Partnerships, Procurement and Energy, you will lead the organisation’s procurement activity across goods, works and services. You will work closely with colleagues across the business to manage tendering, strengthen governance, oversee supplier performance and drive value for money, while ensuring full compliance with relevant legislation and internal standards.

• Lead and deliver the organisation’s procurement strategy, ensuring it supports corporate priorities, asset management plans and building safety requirements.
• Manage compliant, transparent and value-driven procurement processes from market engagement through to tendering, negotiation and contract award.
• Strengthen procurement governance by maintaining robust documentation, evaluation frameworks, risk controls and audit-ready processes.
• Work with operational teams to embed effective contract and supplier management, including performance monitoring, KPIs and review activity.
• Drive commercial value by identifying cost savings, supporting budget holders, analysing spend and leading negotiations to secure favourable terms.
• Provide insight, guidance and continuous improvement across the organisation by using data, reporting to senior stakeholders and promoting procurement best practice.

Confident and collaborative procurement professional with substantial experience across the full procurement lifecycle and a strong track record of delivering complex tenders and high-value contracts. You will bring excellent commercial judgement, analytical ability and negotiation skills, alongside a strong understanding of procurement in a regulated environment and the legislation that underpins it. Just as importantly, you will be someone who can build strong relationships across teams, influence stakeholders at all levels and communicate complex information clearly. The successful candidate will share the organisation's commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion, work in a safe and compliant way, and be flexible and responsive in supporting the wider needs of the organisation.

Community and neighbourhood mean everything to the organisation, and their roots run deep in the areas of North London that they serve. Founded over 90 years ago, they provide around 2,500 homes for over 5,000 people across Islington, Hackney and Waltham Forest. They are proud to remain a community-based housing association with a strong social purpose and an ambitious future. The organisation's values are at the heart of who they are and everything they do, inspiring their thinking and guiding their actions. They strive to build a more diverse organisation, where everyone feels empowered to bring, and be, their best self to work. They are ambitious about the future while remaining grounded in their communities and values.

• A genuinely community-based and values-led organisation
• Strong social purpose and commitment to affordable housing
• New corporate strategy and clear organisational ambition with a commitment to growth in our heartlands
• Flexible and supportive working culture
• Competitive pension and benefits package

The employer wants the organisation to be a great place to work and to ensure that their communities are represented across their workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring they are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. They particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and those of Other Ethnicities, LGBTQ+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to their residents.