Head of Procurement Shared Service Birmingham, England
Job description
Are you an experienced Procurement and Supply Chain Management professional, that can help make a real difference to the success of our expanding Group Procurement function?
We currently have a fantastic opportunity for a Head of Procurement to develop a best-in-class Shared Service that delivers efficiency and compliance for Platform Housing Group.
This is a fantastic time to join us on our transformation journey and help us build a better future in affordable homes, services, and communities.
This is an exciting new role where you will be instrumental in supporting the implementation of our new source to pay and core finance systems. Following a review of how we buy, we are establishing a central buying function to support the Group deliver quality and value for money, freeing up capability in our customer-facing teams, by sourcing the right goods and services at the right price.
You will also be pivotal in setting up the new Procurement Shared Service team and will support in the design and implementation of a transactional purchasing service across all areas of spend to deliver assurance, measurable procurement improvements, understanding and striving for the lowest cost to transact.
Some of the things we are looking for:
Proven experience of working at manager level or above in a Procurement or commercial function.
Experience of developing and managing a remote team
Experience of the Housing Sector or Public Sector procurement
Experience of leading a corporate procurement and supply chain function
Proven experience of developing and managing relationships with senior colleagues within a complex organisation
Proven experience of driving innovative solutions
A Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply or equivalent professional qualification would be considered desirable however we can support you in obtaining this
While this role is home based, you should have the ability to travel to Group offices and other locations as required. Our Group offices are located at Birmingham Business Park, Solihull and Central Park, Worcester. Your business mileage will be reimbursed as per the Inland Revenue mileage rates.
Some of our core benefits include:
28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) with opportunity to buy and sell leave
Family friendly policies, flexible working, and ability to work from home in most roles
Non- contributory health & wellbeing plans with cashback for dental, optical, physio and complementary therapies
Medicash membership for all employees which includes access to an employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership and exclusive discounts
Pension contribution scheme with employer contributions of up to 8% (inclusive of life assurance and dependent on employee contributions)
Learning and Development opportunities
Salary sacrifice electric car scheme
Employee reward and recognition scheme with wellbeing hub and discounts from a wide range of retailers
If this sounds like the place for you then we’d love to hear from you. If you would like any further information on the role or would like to arrange an informal chat, please feel free to contact Nathan Barson (Procurement Director) via email:
We aim to hold interviews for this role in our Worcester/Solihull office the week of 06th March and will contact you to arrange a suitable day.
We do not require recruitment agency support at this time - all speculative CV’s will be treated as a direct application.
