Job Description

Remote/Peterborough - Full-Time - Permanent

Are you an experienced procurement professional who thrives on leading procurement of works and ensuring compliance? This is a hands-on role where you'll be responsible for delivering compliant, efficient, and value-driven procurement activities across the organisation.

About the Role

As our Procurement Manager, you'll take the lead on the full procurement lifecycle. You'll work closely with internal teams to ensure goods, works, and services are procured in line with public sector regulations, while maintaining high standards of documentation, compliance, and supplier performance. Your day-to-day will involve running procurement exercises, advising stakeholders, and supporting contract management across a wide range of categories.

What You'll Be Doing

Lead procurement of works, goods, and services contracts. Develop and implement sourcing strategies with internal stakeholders. Support the rollout of a Contract Management Standard across the organisation. Deliver training and guidance on procurement best practices. Monitor compliance with the Procurement Act and other regulations. Manage procurement projects and administrative tasks end-to-end. Identify risks and drive innovative, value-driven solutions.

What We're Looking For

Essential:

Strong experience in public sector procurement and contract management. Knowledge of PCR 2015 and Procurement Act 2023. Excellent stakeholder engagement and negotiation skills. Ability to work flexibly to build an appropriate procurement with the relevant stakeholders Proficiency in e-tendering tools and Microsoft Office. A proactive, solutions-focused mindset with a passion for continuous improvement.

Desirable:

Experience in the social housing or private sector. CIPS membership (or working towards it). Project management qualifications (e.g., PRINCE2, Lean, Six Sigma). Advanced Excel skills (Pivot Tables, VLOOKUP).


Apply Now as we may close the role early where we receive strong interest


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INDAD


A commercial business with a social heart, our vision is to create opportunities that change lives through our drive, expertise, resources and passion.


Our dynamic approach has made us one of the region's leading providers of affordable homes for rent and sale. Developing new homes across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, and the surrounding area, we're committed to increasing the supply of affordable homes in the communities where they are needed most. Agility and innovation are central to our approach to adapting to change, and we'll continue to grow our business in today's fast-paced operating environment.


There's more to building communities than building houses. In addition to providing quality homes and delivering excellent landlord services, we also provide care at home and at our two extra care communities in Peterborough as well as around the clock support through our LifeLine personal alarm service. Our community investment programme sees us working with specialist partners to bring a range of employment, wellbeing and family-friendly services to the heart of our communities, with a rapidly expanding digital support offer too.


You can find out more

about us

and the

services we offer our residents

on the CKH website.


Members of the National Housing Federation, PlaceShapers, Homes for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, the CBI and BuildEast.