Procurement Manager

Centrepoint; Greater London; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 49,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave

Private medical insurance

Pension contributions

Cycle to Work

Travel loan

Job summary

Centrepoint, the UK's leading youth homelessness charity, is seeking a Procurement Manager to join our London-based Procurement Team. You will oversee sourcing, supplier relationships and tender processes to deliver best value for the organisation while ensuring regulatory compliance.

You will lead contract negotiations with strategic suppliers, monitor spend, and drive savings across key categories. A not-for-profit mindset and strong stakeholder collaboration are essential for success in this

Qualifications

• Not-for-profit sector experience or understanding of not-for-profit procurement.
• Strong listening and analytical skills to provide best value solutions.
• Ability to lead and develop others.
• Familiarity with procurement processes and governance is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Manage sourcing and establish new suppliers to ensure best value and compliance.
• Lead tender and award processes with transparent governance and risk management.
• Negotiate contracts with strategic suppliers and monitor ongoing performance.
• Track spend to maximise savings and ensure procurement principles are followed.

Skills

Sourcing

Supplier management

Tendering

Negotiation

Education

CIPS Level 6 or appropriate degree

Job description

Contract: Permanent, Full-Time (37.5 hours per week)

Salary: £41,814 - £48,893 per annum

Closing Date: Monday 09 November 2026

Interviews will be held w/c 16 November 2026

About us

Centrepoint, the UK's leading youth homelessness charity, is looking for Procurement Manager to join our Procurement team based in London.

We help vulnerable young people by giving them the practical and emotional support they need to find a job and live independently. Centrepoint provides homeless young people with accommodation, health support and life skills in order to get them back into education, training and employment. We want to end youth homelessness by 2037.

Together with our partners, we support over 15,000 young people each year.

To ensure our colleagues can focus their time on delivery, the Procurement Team provides a complete

commercial procurement function to all Centrepoint Directorates and are accountable for the

implementation of best practice procurement strategies delivering best value for money whilst

ensuring regulatory compliance of goods and services supplied.

What you'll be doing

• Managing the sourcing and establishment of new suppliers and liaising with existing suppliers to ensure that best value market leading goods and services, commensurate with the needs of the organisation, are procured, retained and/or replaced as required.
• Leading professional and transparent tender and award processes across Centrepoint, ensuring all compliance and risk issues are addressed in the process.
• Managing regular contract reviews and negotiations with strategic suppliers and leading those with all other key suppliers.
• Monitoring all spend and costs to ensure focus of Procurement principles on key spend areas to maximise actual savings.

What you'll need

• Passion to deliver best practice in the Not-for-Profit Sector
• Good listening and analysis skills to provide our needs with best value solutions
• Ability to lead and develop others
• CIPS Level 6 or an appropriate degree and/or experience

Why join Centrepoint?

In return for your efforts, you'll receive a competitive salary, excellent training and development, and a host of staff benefits including:

• 25 days of annual leave per year, rising by one day per year to a maximum of 27 days
• Healthcare cash plan (Cover the costs of a wide range of medical treatment including Dental, Optical, Complementary and Alternative therapies).
• Private Medical insurance
• Employer pension contributions of 5%
• Access to Cycle 2 Work loan scheme
• An interest-free travel loan

At Centrepoint we challenge the discrimination within society that contributes to youth homelessness, and we are just as committed to fairness and equality within Centrepoint itself. We are passionate about ensuring all of our colleagues are made to feel included in the work we do and that we value the rich diversity within the organization.

We are an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications regardless of sex, gender, race, age, belief in any religion and none, gender identity, ethnic origin, class, sexuality, nationality, appearance, unrelated criminal activities, disability, responsibility for dependents, part time or shift workers, being HIV positive or living with AIDS, lived experience of homelessness or using young people's services and any other matter which causes a person to be treated with injustice.

Centrepoint's policy is to recruit, employ and promote people on the basis of their suitability for the work to be performed, and to this end, our aim is to ensure that all applicants, employees and volunteers receive equal treatment.