Buyer

Hybrid - Chippenham

Salary - £31,900-£39,800 per annum - depending on skills and experience.

Contract type - Permanent

Working hours - Full Time

Closing Date - 17 May 2023

Interview Date - TBC

About the role

You will proactively coordinate and manage low/medium risk procurement activity, maximising savings, and value for money, for a range of assigned spend categories/projects.

You will actively manage GSA frameworks, including selection of suppliers to GSA Dynamic Purchasing Systems.

You will Support the procurement team with mandatory reporting as required by the Public Contract Regulations 2015.

Your role will be to support internal stakeholders on the procurement journey from establishing the requirement and procurement strategy, to tendering and contract award.

You will manage spend within internal Group Procurement Policy and external legal compliance obligations (including Public Contracts Regulations 2015), where applicable.

You will assist the Category Managers to influence a broad network of business stakeholders to ensure group requirements are aligned and commercially maximised with effective procurement solutions.

Please note that if you are successful in this role, we will require a DBS check to be completed. Further details will be sent following offer.

About you

You will have procurement experience, good knowledge of the Public Contracts Regulations and be willing to work towards CIPS qualification or able to demonstrate similar standard via career experience.

You will have good understanding of contract documentation and management.

You will have strong commercial and business awareness, and excellent stakeholder communication skills. You will need to be competent with using MS office, especially MS Word and Excel.

You will have the ability to evaluate suppliers and tender responses from analysis/interpretation of written/financial/ contractual information.

About us

GreenSquareAccord is one of the biggest social housing and care providers in England.

We believe passionately in our mission to build better lives and provide social housing and support services to 54,000 people across our four localities. We are proud to play an active role in helping people to deal with the consequences of the housing crisis by providing affordable homes for people in our communities who need them most.

We also provide care and support to some of the most vulnerable people in society. This includes support for people who are homeless, experiencing domestic violence or are part of the criminal justice system.

Our purpose

We are proud to be able to support tens of thousands of people across England by providing affordable housing and care to help people live independently.

Our focus is on building better lives. Everything we do is about people - whether that's providing a good quality, safe home or providing care which helps someone to live an independent life.

Our colleagues live and breathe this social purpose and we need great people, with skills across a range of disciplines, to make this happen.

The GSA Way

We know that how we do things is just as important as what we do. To help us make a difference, together, we created the GSA Way.

A culture we commit to, aspire to, and live and breathe. Commitments and behaviours which together make our organisation what it is.

**Our five core commitments are**:
We believe our customer is everything

We are one team

We are supportive and caring

We are business-minded for social purpose

We are curious and ambitious.

You can read more about the GSA Way in our recruitment pack.

**Benefits**:
In support and recognition of our colleagues who will help us deliver our employer strategy, we offer a fantastic benefits package. This includes; annual holiday entitlement (plus statutory bank holidays); a defined contribution pension scheme; trust based flexible working and a Confidential Employee Assistance Programme (EAP).

If you need any assistance, adjustments or adaptations throughout our selection processes please let us know.

Closing Date - 17 May 2023

Interview Date - TBC