What's involved with this role: Head of Procurement – Housing Job Ref: ATR TCL 5256742 Pay Rate: Up to £80,000 per annum depending on experience Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, 8.30am to 5pm Role Length: Permanent City: Wiltshire Hybrid working The purpose of the role is to enable the strategic development of procurement function through support, influence, and contribution to the strategic and operational performance of business wide directorates, by promoting and driving commercial excellence through a highly effective procurement function. Embed a robust framework of performance (value for money), assurance (compliance) and continuous improvement (systems). Key Responsibilities: Lead the operating framework for the Group’s procurement activities, underpinned by a robust forward plan and implementation of a long-term strategy for all business areas. Provide specialist support and advice on Procurement issues across the Group, enabling the needs of the business to be met while ensuring compliance with legislative and regulatory requirements. Develop, implement, and monitor procurement policies, procedures, and guidelines that comply with relevant legislation, regulations, and practices. Oversee the development, implementation, and maintenance, of procurement systems and technology to support procurement operations. Work in partnership with and lead cross-functional teams comprising of group wide operational and management colleagues ensuring they’re fully equipped to deliver against operational targets. Lead proactive analysis of designated areas of spend through effective use of project management, considering opportunity and risk, to establish a contracting pipeline fully aligned to the needs and priorities of operational teams to maximise best value. Work with senior leaders across the business to establish a robust approach to proactive contract management, which seeks to drive performance, identify opportunities for innovation, increase value and minimise risk. Embed an inclusive and progressive approach to value for money, incorporating ESG and social value. Build and maintain effective relationships with stakeholders including internal customers, suppliers, and other third-party organisations. Establishing a business partnering approach to procurement will rely on keen project management skills to lead strategy development, manage multiple projects simultaneously and engage operational teams in ongoing contract management. Manage a newly formed team including Senior Procurement Business Partner(s), Procurement Partner(s) and Coordinator, you’ll need skills in leadership, management, and coaching. Qualifications: Educated to degree level or equivalent professional qualification in procurement, such as MCIPS, or a related field. Skills & Experience: Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation. Prior experience within the housing sector is not essential, although it will suit someone with a broad background across general indirect and construction related services. Experienced procurement leader, ideally with experience gained in driving change and improvements within a new or existing procurement team. Track record acting as a trusted advisor to our senior leaders, including advising business areas on market trends, procurement strategy options, best practice tendering, contract award, implementation, and management. Demonstrable working knowledge and application of UK public sector procurement regulations and other relevant legislation is vital to provide assurance. Skills in analytics, problem-solving, communication and risk mitigation will help us to progressively evolve our procurement service. Understanding market trends, procurement strategy options, best practice tendering, contract award, implement and management. Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite). Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for. Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service. Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local to, or who can commute easily to the place of work. It will help your application if your CV states, in broad terms, where you reside – there is no need for a full address. Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobstclrec.com by quoting the job reference and exact job title. To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would ask that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, not as a PDF. If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity. Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days, please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles. 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