Procurement Officer

We are Lifestory, a vibrant, dynamic and ambitious business who are proud to design, build, and create high-quality homes with a focus on independent later living. Our developments are beautifully designed offering stunning community living.

It's a great time to join us as we continue to build on our success through 2023 and beyond and we created an exciting, brand new opportunity for an experienced Procurement Officer to join us.

**About the role**

You will work closely with our Senior Procurement Manager in supporting and developing the long term Supply Chain Strategy for Lifestory Customer Operations who deliver property management services across the portfolio.

Working with other departments and internal stakeholders across Lifestory you’ll ensure that we are effectively able to implement critical procedures and processes across our business.

Key responsibilities
- Work with the Senior Procurement Manager to help define and support the short and long term Supply Chain strategy
- Day to day monitoring of incoming contractor queries (financial, operational, escalations) and directing to the correct Buildings & Communities Manager or Finance Team
- Contractor onboarding, vetting in line with Lifestory procedures, uploading of documents to our management system, FixFlo.
- Contractors Certification Compliance - run compliance report, chase contractors, upload documents to the FixFlo system
- Assisting in the implementation and rollout of new contracts to the business and on-going management of these contracts, benchmarking prices and providing support during the tender process including reporting, negotiating, monitoring contractual agreements with suppliers and compliance
- Support the sourcing and identification of new suppliers, staying ahead of market trends, research and innovation
- Supporting the management of supplier performance, including cost and quality in line with the annual development budget programme

**About you**

You will be working within a procurement role ideally within an Estate, Property Management, Construction or Facilities related sector. Experience of working within a commercial environment is essential and you’ll have the ability to develop strong supplier relationships along with great contract negotiation skills. You’ll need to be able to support and develop framework agreements and have experience in cost saving strategies.

**Qualifications**:

- A CIPS/IoSCM/RICS qualification (or working towards) would be desirable but not essential
- IOSH would be desirable but not essential

Skills & knowledge
- Excellent reporting skills using various platforms such as FixFlo building management & Qube property management (systems training will be given)
- Detailed knowledge of Google
- Strong engagement skills with the wider business and key stakeholders
- Highly organised
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Good commercial acumen
- Ability to work to tight project plans/deadlines

**Our benefits & rewards**

This is a full time, permanent role offered on a hybrid working basis with a minimum of two days per week from our Winchester office, with the remainder based from home / visiting our regional offices and developments. This role will include regular travel so a full UK drivers licence and own vehicle is essential.

This role offers a basic salary within the range of £30,000 - £35,000 per annum (depending on experience) plus an annual bonus scheme. In addition our employees also enjoy a wealth of benefits, including:

- Enhanced annual leave
- Healthshield cash plan
- Virtual GP
- Contributory pension scheme with additional employer contribution,
- Holiday buying
- Discounts portal, GymFlex, Cycle2Work scheme
- Refer a friend scheme and access to internal opportunities

This is an exciting new role so if you have the skills and experience we are looking for we'd love to hear from you