Southern Housing
Procurement Manager
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Are you looking for a procurement role where your work has a visible impact on residents, communities and value for money?
At Southern Housing, we’re looking for a Procurement Manager to help shape and deliver our annual procurement pipeline. This is a great opportunity for an experienced procurement professional who enjoys managing end to end procurement projects, working closely with stakeholders and influencing commercial decisions. You'll play a key role in delivering compliant, value for money procurement solutions while helping us achieve our social value, sustainability and resident engagement objectives.
Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:
- Manage end to end procurement projects across a wide range of goods, services and works contracts.
- Work with stakeholders to understand business needs and develop procurement approaches that deliver value for money, manage risk and support organisational objectives.
- Manage competitive tender processes, including market engagement, tender documentation, supplier communications, evaluations, negotiations and contract award.
- Provide procurement advice and guidance to colleagues on procurement legislation, governance requirements and best practice.
- Support contract mobilisation and help establish effective contract management arrangements.
- Embed social value, sustainability and responsible procurement principles into procurement activity.
- Promote opportunities for SMEs, local suppliers and diverse businesses through market engagement activities.
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This role can be based in any of our main offices and will require attendance at our Farringdon office (London) for team meetings. This is a hybrid working role with the option to work from home 3 days per week. Home working days will be agreed with your line manager.
You’ll bring proven experience in:
- Experience managing end to end procurement projects within a public sector, regulated or similarly governed environment.
- Experience managing competitive tender exercises and supplier evaluations.
- Understanding of contract terms and conditions, commercial risk and contract management
- Experience using eProcurement and purchase to pay systems and strong IT skills including MS Office,
- Experience managing multiple priorities and delivering projects to agreed timescales.
- Understanding of the Procurement Act 2023, Public contract Regulations 2015
- CIPS Level 4 Diploma (or equivalent experience) - desirable
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management and influencing skills
- Ability to work independently, manage priorities and interpret financial data to support value-for-money outcomes
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Closing date: 20th of September 2026, Sunday, at 23:59pm
Shortlisting: 23rd of September 2026
Interviews: in-person interviews on 7th and 8th of October 2026
Please note: We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible so it can be reviewed and considered.
About The Team
You’ll be part of a supportive and knowledgeable procurement team at a time of change and opportunity. You’ll have the chance to work on a varied pipeline of projects, build strong relationships across the organisation and influence how procurement supports better outcomes for residents and communities.
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