Procurement and Contracts Manager
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The Vacancy
Are you a procurement professional with a passion for driving value, fostering supplier relationships, and leading strategic improvements? Do you thrive in a role that combines contract management, stakeholder engagement, and innovative problem solving? If so, we’d love to hear from you!
At Paradigm Housing Group, we are seeking a Procurement & Contract Manager to help shape our procurement and contract management practices, ensuring we deliver exceptional value for our customers and stakeholders. This is a fantastic opportunity to lead key initiatives, embed best practices, and make a meaningful impact in a collaborative and forward-thinking organisation.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Developing and implementing sourcing strategies alongside Category Managers to ensure quality, value, and compliance in procurement.
- Leading and improving utilities contract management to achieve cost efficiency and regulatory compliance.
- Implementing a robust Contract Management Standard to deliver outstanding performance outcomes.
- Building strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external suppliers, driving collaboration and innovation.
- Embedding Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and maintaining high standards across all contracts.
- Transforming utilities processes, managing energy contracts, and driving improvements for the benefit of customers.
- Supporting the Head of Procurement with supplier risk management, training delivery, and compliance auditing.
What You’ll Bring:
- Extensive procurement experience in the Public sector
- Strong expertise in contract and supplier relationship management, risk mitigation, and change implementation.
- Proven track record in supplier negotiation, cost-saving delivery, and quality improvement.
- Exceptional relationship-building skills with senior stakeholders and suppliers.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including advanced Excel functions (e.g., VLOOKUPs, pivot tables).
- Analytical, proactive, and innovative approach to problem-solving.
- CIPS qualification (or equivalent experience) preferred.
Further Information
For the full job description and person specification for the role, please see the attachment at the bottom of this page. Should you have any queries about this vacancy, please email recruitment@paradigmhousing.co.uk and we will respond as soon as possible.
As part of our application process, we ask for a covering statement and CV so we can assess your application against our essential and desired criteria as set out in the job description and person specification. Please include in your covering statement how you meet the criteria so we can see how well you match our requirements and give your application the consideration it deserves.
Thank you for your interest in Paradigm Housing Group thus far.
Shortlisting will be conducted in line with the essential and desirable criteria set out in the person specification. We reserve the right to close this role earlier than the published date should a suitable candidate be identified.
About us
We are Paradigm Housing Group.
We manage more than 17,000 homes across the South East.
We know that house prices in the areas where we work are high, both to buy and rent. We want to help more people have a safe and sustainable home that they can afford.
As a charity, the money we make goes into building new homes and providing an excellent service for residents.
We are a Best Companies two-star accredited organisation in recognition of our high employee engagement and commitment to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone is free to be themselves and feel like they belong. We are clearly focused on the delivery of our five-year corporate plan with ambitious and challenging objectives including delivering one of the sector’s largest digital transformation programmes, improving our environment and sustainability targets and delivering more quality homes to people who need them.
Our benefits
- Holidays – 25 days rising to 30 with length of service (30 days starting for senior roles) plus an extra three paid days off between Christmas and New Year, and the opportunity to buy up to another five days.
- Pension scheme: a defined contribution scheme with employer contributions of 7.5% or 9.5% depending on the employee’s contribution rate.
- Car leasing scheme.
- Annual bonus potential.
- 1 paid professional subscription per year.
- Family friendly policies including generous paternity, maternity, shared parental and adoption leave, sabbaticals and more.
- Health cash plan – worth over £1,800 per year. Includes dental, optical, prescriptions and flu jabs, physiotherapy, chiropractic therapy, reflexology, Sports massage and more.
- Hybrid working for many roles.
- Up to three paid Giving Back (volunteer) Days a year.
- Modern collaborative offices, with free parking and charging points for electric vehicles.
- Opportunities for career development and progression.
- Social events such as quiz nights, Christmas Party, Summer BBQ.
Our Vision
We provide excellent services to customers.
And build new homes to help more people.
We make sure our homes are safe and sustainable.
And strive to do more by making the most of our resources.
Working For Us
Our Values
Safer Together
Driving Improvement
Working As One
Acting Thoughtfully
Being Clear
Please note that customer facing roles may be subject to a DBS check.
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