Procurement and Supply Chain Manager

Blue Octopus; York; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading organization is seeking a Procurement and Supply Chain Manager who will oversee all procurement activities and manage supplier relationships. The ideal candidate holds relevant qualifications like MCIPS and has strong negotiation skills to drive operational success. This full-time role offers flexibility, with the possibility of part-time arrangements as well. The closing date for applications is June 13, 2025.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in procurement and contract management in large organizations.
• Strong understanding of procurement best practices and strategies.
• Experience in developing and negotiating supplier agreements.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage all procurement activities across Group Shared Services.
• Oversee two direct reports and support procurement for care sites.
• Identify cost-saving opportunities and implement initiatives for growth.

Skills

Negotiation

Stakeholder engagement

Analytical thinking

Education

MCIPS or equivalent

Tools

Procurement management systems

Contract management systems

Job description

Permanent, Full Time (35 hours per week)

About the role

The Procurement and Supply Chain Manager is responsible for leading and managing all procurement activities across Group Shared Services. This role is crucial to ensuring value for money in all contracts and procurement exercises.

You’ll assess current procurement strategies, identify cost-saving opportunities, support with purchasing and implement initiatives to improve growth, value, and efficiency across the organisation. By ensuring the effective management of contracts and supplier relationships, you’ll help drive operational success. Additionally, the role will oversee two direct reports, provide support to JRHT (Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust) in their procurement activities for care sites, and assist JRF (Joseph Rowntree Foundation) and the group centre with their procurement needs.

About you

As our Procurement and Supply Chain Manager, we’d like you to hold relevant professional qualifications in procurement (e.g., MCIPS or equivalent), have proven experience in procurement and contract management, ideally in a large, complex organisation and a strong understanding of procurement best practices, strategies, and cost management techniques.

With knowledge of procurement legislation, regulations, and compliance requirements for public and charitable sectors, you’ll have experience of developing and negotiating supplier agreements and be proficient with procurement and contract management systems and tools. With experience of co-ordinating several tenders across an organisation, you’ll have demonstrable ability to lead and manage a team, providing mentorship and direction, able to support and advise colleagues from end to end of the procurement process.

You’ll have excellent negotiation skills with the ability to build and maintain strong supplier relationships with strong stakeholder engagement, communications and customer service skills. With involvement in procurement/purchasing strategies and in significant cost reduction programmes, you’ll be an analytical thinker, able to interpret and analyse multiple data sources, with the ability to identify trends and opportunities for cost savings.

How to apply

If you share our passion and this role sounds like you, then we’re looking forward to hearing from you.

Please submit your CV and supporting information via our online application platform.

The closing date for applications is Friday 13th June 2025.

We reserve the right to bring the closing date forward should enough quality applications be received prior to the current closing date.

Additional Information

Applications are welcome from all, regardless of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief, race, sex, sexual orientation, trans status or socioeconomic background.

We positively encourage applications from people from marginalised backgrounds, including but not limited to those with experience of living in poverty.

We are committed to being an anti-racist organisation and operate an anonymised recruitment process so that bias is eliminated from the shortlisting process.

In support of our approach to flexible working, we are happy to receive applications from those seeking full-time employment, as well as those who may want to share the role on a part-time basis. When making your application, please state whether you want to be considered for either full or part-time work and, if part-time, the number of hours per week you would be looking for.

At JRF we’re at our best when we’re continually building on trust, showing we care and making a difference – and hope others will do the same. So, for those roles which allow it, we’re developing a more blended approach to how and where you work. This means you can expect to work flexibly between the office and home (with an expectation of two days a week in your home office).

We are aDisability Confident Employer. This means that we are committed to the recruitment, progression and retention of disabled individuals. We shall also offer interviews to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the job. If you have a disability, please tell us if you would like to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme.

If you have any additional needs and need reasonable adjustments to be made to the interview process, please let us know.