Job Description

Monmouthshire Building Society are on a journey to becoming an innovative, exciting, modern mutual. We have an ambitious 5-year strategy with strong growth plans and your role will play a crucial part in our success.

We are a community and values-based employer that puts both our people and our members at the heart of what we do. If you want to make a real difference to your community and career, then we\xe2\x80\x99d love to hear from you...

An exciting opportunity has arisen in our Procurement Team for a 6-month FTC Procurement Officer based at our Newport City Head Office to join the growing Procurement team to support driving positive change throughout the Society.

What we will offer you as one of our valued colleagues:

• 25 days\xe2\x80\x99 holiday (pro-rata), plus bank holidays and a day off on your birthday to help you celebrate!

• Option to purchase additional holidays.

• Opportunity to work in an agile way to include home working, after your training has been completed.

• A commitment to your ongoing training and development including our internal rotational development programme (optional after successful completion of probation).

• Up to 14 Hours of paid (pro-rata) Society leave to volunteer for a local community initiative each year.

• \xe2\x80\x98Dress for your Day\xe2\x80\x99 approach when in the office.

• Various health and wellbeing benefits such as 24-hour Employee Assistance Programme, subsidised flu jabs and eye tests.

• Private healthcare (optional from day 1).

• Generous Stakeholder Pension Scheme \xe2\x80\x93 where the Society contributes a massive 10% on top of your 3% contribution!

• Life Assurance \xe2\x80\x93 4 times your basic salary life cover for pension scheme colleagues.

• Critical illness cover.

• Dental cover.

• Health cashplan cover (optional).

What will you be doing?

You will play an important part in supporting the Society transform its procurement capability and management of third-party suppliers. As the Procurement Officer, you will be working collaboratively with internal stakeholders to gather, assess and support business requirements.

Using your procurement expertise and knowledge you will proactively lead and support procurement activity, source goods and services, identify and develop cost and risk mitigating strategies to drive value and performance to improve customer outcomes, competitive tendering, draft and negotiate robust contracts to support strategic objectives.

You will also support Supplier Relationship Managers within the Society to identify and drive cost savings and ensure suppliers meet their contractual obligations.

What type of person will you need to be?

The ideal candidate will be MCIPS qualified or equivalent and have previous experience in indirect procurement / supplier management function. As a credible expert in procurement, you will be effective at drafting and negotiating robust contracts for goods and services with evidence of achieving outcomes that balance the interests of all parties; and an understanding of how to leverage value across the lifetime of a third-party engagement. Lastly you will have excellent written and verbal communication skills, being able to translate technical language into clear, accurate terminology that non-technical people understand.

No agency support required at this point in time.

We\xe2\x80\x99re committed to diversity and equal opportunity and as an inclusive employer, we encourage applications from all suitably qualified applicants irrespective of ethnicity, religion, age, physical or mental disability/long term health condition, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing) and any other protected characteristic.

Just let us know if you need any reasonable adjustments made to our recruitment processes, we\xe2\x80\x99ll try to accommodate them.

We want everyone to be able to fulfil their potential which is why we provide a range of flexible working arrangements and family friendly policies.

Personal data held by the Monmouthshire Building Society relating to employment applications will be used in accordance with GDPR regulations our Privacy Statement, which is available on our website.

Our roles often generate a lot of interest and can close early so don\'t miss out this opportunity to apply!

Monmouthshire Building Society values the diversity that all sections of the community can bring to our Society, we welcome applications from everyone who shares our values.

As a financial services organisation regulated by the PRA and FCA our staff must be honest, financially sound and maintain high levels of competence and capability in their role. Therefore our pre-employment checks include adverse credit checks and criminal records checks (DBS checks) for all roles. DBS checks are at a basic disclosure level for the majority of roles but at the standard level for certain roles covered by the Certification and Senior Managers Regime.

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