Procurement Officer

Contract Type: Permanent, Full time, 35 hours per week

Salary: £34,381 per annum to £37,570 per annum (London weighted salary) or £30,386 per annum to £33,376 per annum (Regional salary), dependant on experience

Grade: 6

Reporting Office: London, Stratford or Manchester, Trafford

Persona: Agile Worker: 20% - 40% of contractual hours to be worked from reporting office/working location (hybrid working)

Closing Date: 9th November 2026 at 11pm

Interview Dates: 20th November 2026, Face to Face at our Stratford office

Join our Commercial Procurement Team - Property & Investment Team at L&Q:

L&Q is one of the UK’s largest housing associations and providers of social and affordable homes. We house around 250,000 people primarily across Greater London and Greater Manchester. Our purpose is simple – to provide social homes and landlord services that everyone can be proud of.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a high-performing and collaborative Procurement Team, where you’ll gain valuable exposure to strategic procurement, commercial analysis, supplier management and regulatory compliance across a diverse portfolio of contracts.

You’ll play an important role in delivering value for money, improving commercial outcomes and supporting effective procurement across Major Works and Building Compliance.

Reporting to the Senior Procurement & Supply Chain Manager, you’ll join a close-knit team of four and be part of a wider Group Procurement team of 34 colleagues.

Your impact in the role:

• Work collaboratively with colleagues to support the Group Procurement Team to deliver an excellent procurement service for the Group.
• Manage spend (monitoring contract and non-compliant spend on a monthly basis, which helps feed into category plans, performance monitoring and overall compliance).
• Day to day monitoring (assessing trends, contract usage, spend profiling and working to update the Contracts Register).
• Manage P-Card’s (reporting on usage, compliance and guidance on alternative routes to market).
• Monitor Notices, Payments and KPI’s (ensuring PA23 notices are published. Analyse KPI and payment data to identify trends, underperformance and areas requiring possible corrective action.).
• Manage and monitor forecasted savings (there is a requirement to forecast values and monitor forecasted savings reconciled against actual expenditure throughout the contract term to verify the level of savings realised).
• Carry out financial checks and completeness checks (via CreditSafe and/or Company Watch, undertaking monthly supplier financial health monitoring and credit risk assessments to identify trends and risks).
• Produce minutes - consensus, meetings (an integral part of tender evaluations and outcomes, ensuring actions are recognised and delivered and an auditable trail is provided for every procurement).
• Manage PO's (raising Purchase Orders, obtaining quotations via the agreed process - allocation and approval - and providing support to Category Managers to follow the correct processes, data analysis).
• This role is to fulfil administrative tasks for the team, which supports the effective management of procurement activity, due diligence and regulatory compliance, which in turn helps ensure best commercial outcomes, value for money, appropriate governance and the efficient operation of procurement and commercial processes across the organisation.
• You will work closely with the Procurement & Commercial team, Finance, and stakeholders across the business to support effective procurement delivery, provide commercial insight, and ensure that business requirements, financial objectives, and compliance obligations are successfully met.

What you'll bring:

Candidates should possess the following knowledge, skill and abilities:

• Able to work collaboratively with others across the business
• Excellent administration communication skills, able to prepare detailed tender/contract documentation and reports to agreed standards
• Excellent project management and organisational skills
• Ability to manage changing priorities
• MS Office suite (Word, Excel, Outlook
• Experience in public sector procurement in compliance with the Procurement Act 2023
• Able to demonstrate commercial and financial acumen, must be able to articulate the benefits of defined procurement process
• Able to work on own initiative independently

Benefits include:

• Excellent pension plan (up to 6% double contribution)
• 28 days Annual Leave rising to 31 days with length of service + Bank Holidays
• Westfield Health Cash Plan
• non-contributory life assurance
• up to 21 hours volunteering paid days
• lifestyle benefits
• Employee Assistance Programme

About L&Q:

We’re one of the UK’s leading housing associations and developers. We were founded on a simple belief: high quality housing is vital for people’s health, happiness and security. Our purpose is simple – to provide social homes and landlord services that everyone can be proud of.

250,000 people call our properties ‘home’, and we’re proud to serve diverse communities across London, the South East and North West of England.

People are at the heart of our business and our success depends on employing the best people and getting the best from them. The foundation of everything that we are is built on our corporate values, which outline our core expectations and should be demonstrated at all times, and all levels, when representing L&Q.

£57,094 per annum to £63,032 per annum (London weighted salary) or £49,502 per annum to £55,106 per annum (Regional salary), dependant on experience

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