Procurement & Contracts Manager – Remote-Ready Housing

Four Corners; Stockport; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

1 day remote working

Enhanced pension

Medicash

Life Assurance

Job summary

Four Corners is seeking a Contracts & Procurement Manager to lead a scalable procurement framework for our multi-site and build-to-rent housing portfolio. You will review spend, contracts and supplier coverage, then drive tendering, onboarding, and performance governance across maintenance and safety services.

You will collaborate with Maintenance, Health & Safety, Finance and on-site teams to optimise commercial outcomes, ensure compliance, and support move-in/move-out turnarounds while

Qualifications

• Substantial procurement, commercial or contract management experience across multi-site residential property, facilities management, maintenance or related built-environment services.
• Proven track record of tendering, negotiating and managing supplier contracts, schedules of rates and cost control across a dispersed estate.
• Strong analytical skills, including expenditure reporting, benchmarking, budgeting and whole-life cost evaluation.
• Knowledge of contractor assurance, procurement governance and relevant contract forms.
• Experience establishing scalable processes in a growing business, with confidence using procurement, finance and property management systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement a portfolio-wide procurement strategy covering reactive and planned maintenance, end-of-tenancy works, facilities management and specialist compliance services.
• Map existing contracts, supplier coverage and category spend, and plan for upcoming development handovers.
• Lead tendering, bid evaluation, negotiation and contract award, with transparent decisions and an auditable approval trail, including structured RFI and RFP frameworks.
• Establish standard scopes, specifications and schedules of rates, benchmark costs, and challenge excessive charges, variations and repeat expenditure.
• Set commercial objectives and KPIs for savings, cost avoidance, compliance and supplier performance.
• Own contractor compliance, ensuring insurance, certifications and accreditations are verified and renewed before expiry, with robust controls to prevent non-compliant contractors being instructed.
• Build a geographically resilient supplier network for dispersed homes and site-based services, with contingency cover for critical and emergency work.
• Introduce supplier scorecards, service-level reporting, purchasing controls and approval workflows, and identify opportunities for technology and automation.
• Provide commercial analysis of in-house, outsourced and hybrid maintenance models.
• Support budgets, forecasting and OPEX efficiency, and coordinate procurement of planned capital works and major replacements.
• Support commercial due diligence on acquisitions and new schemes.
• Work with operational teams to turn procurement decisions into reliable repairs, safe services and efficient move-in and move-out turnaround

Skills

Procurement management

Contract negotiation

Supplier management

Spend analytics

Budgeting

Risk management

Job description

Four Corners is seeking a Contracts & Procurement Manager to lead a scalable procurement framework for our multi-site and build-to-rent housing portfolio. You will review spend, contracts and supplier coverage, then drive tendering, onboarding, and performance governance across maintenance and safety services.

You will collaborate with Maintenance, Health & Safety, Finance and on-site teams to optimise commercial outcomes, ensure compliance, and support move-in/move-out turnarounds while