Procurement Officer - London, United Kingdom - A2Dominion Housing Group Ltd.

A2Dominion Housing Group Ltd.

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London, United Kingdom

3 days ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Procurement Officer

Location:
Paddington, London - Hybrid working

Salary:
£35,140-£40,688

Contract: 12-month fixed term contract, 35 hours per week

About us
We are one of the UK's leading housing associations. Our vision is to improve people's lives through high-quality homes and services.

We operate across London and southern England, providing affordable, private and social rented homes, student, NHS and temporary accommodation, as well as supported housing and homes for older people.

We also offer high-quality sustainable homes for sale and shared ownership, available through our FABRICA by A2Dominion brand.

Whilst we take a commercial approach to housebuilding, all the profits the Group generates are reinvested into supporting our social purpose, helping to deliver more homes and services for customers.

Role Overview
We are looking for a
Procurement Officer to join our fantastic Procurement team.

This role is to lead on the onboarding and maintenance of suppliers and contracts within A2D's Purchase to Pay (P2P) and procurement systems, as well as providing support and guidance to the business areas with it's general purchase to pay activities, ensuring this is all completed in compliance with policy and procedures.

The role will also support A2D business areas in undertaking sourcing activities such as requests for quotations and lower value tenders.

Some Key responsibilities:

Support the Strategic Procurement team in implementing the Group's Procurement Policy and Procedures, ensuring consistency with corporate objectives, UK regulations and legislation, and any other statutory guidance. This also includes raising awareness around best practice and any changes to regulations that affect procurement, using the most effective communication channels.
To lead on the onboarding and maintenance of the supplier records within D365 F&O, ensuring that processes and procedures are adhered to.
To assist in creating and maintaining a register of preferred and approved suppliers within D365 F&O, based on the relevant procurement category, ensuring that all supporting documents relating to the suppliers are in place and date stamped for renewals as required.
To provide first line case management support to the Procurement Helpdesk in resolving, reassigning, or escalating queries and cases.
Taking a prominent role in lower value sourcing and tendering activities, including the running of further competitions within frameworks, at all stages from business case approval to running the competition to contract award.
To support the Strategic Procurement Team with the maintenance of the D365 Enterprise Contract Management module, to provide up to date visibility of contracts and their association with suppliers and procurement categories. Also reporting on due diligence needs for strategic contracts (eg insurance policy documents).
To continuously assess, as part of the Strategic Procurement Team, the current procurement processes and documentation to identify areas for improvement and potential noncompliance

More about you:

Educated to GCSE level or equivalent in Maths and English (Grades A
C)
Ability to manage a varying workload of both tasks and project related work
Experience of working within a procurement or purchasing environment
Experience of successfully sourcing suppliers to meet business requirements
Good working knowledge of Excel, Word, Outlook and eprocurement systems
Understanding of compliance with procurement regulations in the public sector
Ability to influence both internal and external stakeholders to consider, possibly by negotiation, alternative outcomes and methods
Ability to communicate clearly and accurately through various means of communication and engagement

Choosing us is easy

As an employee of A2Dominion, we want you to feel rewarded and have a choice of flexible benefits, salary exchange benefits, and rewards and discounts that work for you, wherever you are in your life.

We offer a wide range of staff benefits.

For this role, these include:

25 days' holiday (Plus Bank Holidays) increasing up to 28 days with 3 years of service
Up to 8% contributory pension
Flexible working
Investment in your learning and development.

In addition, all permanent and fixed-term employees receive a generous annual allowance of up to £300 to use towards health and lifestyle benefits for both you and your family.

We also operate a Cycle to Work Scheme whereby employees have access to cycling equipment throughout the year and can pay via monthly salary deductions.

Whatever the role, we want you to bring your knowledge and experience to play your part in improving people's lives.

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A2Dominion Group is a Disability Confident Employer which means that we are committed to employing disabled people and will:_
- actively look to attract and recruit disabled people
- provide a fully inclusive and accessible