Procurement Officer - 8306

London and Quadrant Housing Trust; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 38,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension plan

Annual leave

Health plan

Life assurance

Volunteer days

Employee assistance

Job summary

L&Q is seeking a Procurement Officer to join the Commercial Procurement Team in London. The role covers commercial procurement administration, supplier management, governance across contracts, and ensuring value for money across major works and building compliance.

You will work with Finance and stakeholders to support effective procurement delivery, provide commercial insight, and ensure business requirements, financial objectives and compliance obligations are met. Hybrid working from London.

Qualifications

• Able to work collaboratively with others across the business.
• Excellent administration communication skills, able to prepare detailed tender/contract documentation and reports to agreed standards.
• Excellent project management and organisational skills.
• Ability to manage changing priorities.
• MS Office suite (Word, Excel, Outlook)

Responsibilities

• Support Group Procurement Team to deliver an excellent procurement service.
• Monitor spend and contract activity, feed into category plans and compliance.
• Maintain Contracts Register and assess contract usage and trends.
• Raise and manage POs, obtain quotations through agreed processes.
• Support tender evaluations with auditable trails and meeting minutes.

Skills

Teamwork

Documentation

Project management

Prioritisation

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Title: Procurement Officer

Contract Type: Permanent, Full time, 35 hours per week

Salary: £34,381 per annum to £37,570 per annum (London weighted salary) or £30,386 per annum to £33,376 per annum (Regional salary), dependant on experience

Grade: 6

Reporting Office: London, Stratford or Manchester, Trafford

Persona: Agile Worker: 20% - 40% of contractual hours to be worked from reporting office/working location (hybrid working)

Closing Date: 9th November 2026 at 11pm

Interview Dates: 20th November 2026, Face to Face at our Stratford office

Benefits include:

• Excellent pension plan (up to 6% double contribution)
• 28 days Annual Leave rising to 31 days with length of service + Bank Holidays
• Westfield Health Cash Plan
• non-contributory life assurance
• up to 21 hours volunteering paid days
• lifestyle benefits
• Employee Assistance Programme
• many more ...

Join our Commercial Procurement Team - Property & Investment Team at L&Q:

L&Q is one of the UK's largest housing associations and providers of social and affordable homes. We house around 250,000 people primarily across Greater London and Greater Manchester. Our purpose is simple - to provide social homes and landlord services that everyone can be proud of .

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a high-performing and collaborative Procurement Team, where you'll gain valuable exposure to strategic procurement, commercial analysis, supplier management and regulatory compliance across a diverse portfolio of contracts.

You’ll play an important role in delivering value for money, improving commercial outcomes and supporting effective procurement across Major Works and Building Compliance.

Reporting to the Senior Procurement & Supply Chain Manager, you’ll join a close-knit team of four and be part of a wider Group Procurement team of 34 colleagues.

Your impact in the role:

• Work collaboratively with colleagues to support the Group Procurement Team to deliver an excellent procurement service for the Group.
• Manage spend (monitoring contract and non-compliant spend on a monthly basis, which helps feed into category plans, performance monitoring and overall compliance)
• Day to day monitoring (assessing trends, contract usage, spend profiling and working to update the Contracts Register)
• Manage P-Card’s (reporting on usage, compliance and guidance on alternative routes to market)
• Monitor Notices, Payments and KPI’s (ensuring PA23 notices are published. Analyse KPI and payment data to identify trends, underperformance and areas requiring possible corrective action.
• Manage and monitor forecasted savings (there is a requirement to forecast values and monitor forecasted savings reconciled against actual expenditure throughout the contract term to verify the level of savings realised).
• Carry out financial checks and completeness checks (via CreditSafe and/or Company Watch, undertaking monthly supplier financial health monitoring and credit risk assessments to identify trends and risks).
• Produce minutes - consensus, meetings (an integral part of tender evaluations and outcomes, ensuring actions are recognised and delivered and an auditable trail is provided for every procurement).
• Manage PO's (raising Purchase Orders, obtaining quotations via the agreed process - allocation and approval - and providing support to Category Managers to follow the correct processes, data analysis).

This role is to fulfil administrative tasks for the team, which supports the effective management of:- procurement activity, due diligence and regulatory compliance, which in turn helps ensure best commercial outcomes, value for money, appropriate governance and the efficient operation of procurement and commercial processes across the organisation.

You will work closely with the Procurement & Commercial team, Finance, and stakeholders across the business to support effective procurement delivery, provide commercial insight, and ensure that business requirements, financial objectives, and compliance obligations are successfully met.

What you'll bring:

Candidates should possess the following knowledge, skill and abilities:

Essential

• Able to work collaboratively with others across the business
• Excellent administration communication skills, able to prepare detailed tender/contract documentation and reports to agreed standards
• Excellent project management and organisational skills
• Ability to manage changing priorities
• MS Office suite (Word, Excel, Outlook)

Desirable

• Experience in public sector procurement in compliance with the Procurement Act 2023
• Able to demonstrate commercial and financial acumen, must be able to articulate the benefits of defined procurement process
• Able to work on own initiative independently

If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage during this process, including application stage, please email [e-mail]

About L&Q:

We're one of the UK's leading housing associations and developers. We were founded on a simple belief: high quality housing is vital for people's health, happiness and security. Our purpose is simple - to provide social homes and landlord services that everyone can be proud of.

250,000 people call our properties 'home', and we're proud to serve diverse communities across London, the South East and North West of England.

People are at the heart of our business and our success depends on employing the best people and getting the best from them. The foundation of everything that we are is built on our corporate values, which outline our core expectations and should be demonstrated at all times, and all levels, when representing L&Q.

At L&Q, we know that diversity and inclusion make us stronger - and they're at the heart of everything we do.

When we recruit, we look at what really matters: your skills, experience, and potential. We're proud to be recognised for creating an inclusive workplace. We’re a Disability Confident Leader (Level 3) and we've introduced our own Recruitment Advocate scheme to make sure every step of our hiring process is fair, transparent, and consistent. It's all part of our commitment to ending discrimination and making L&Q a place where everyone feels welcome. Find out more here .

Sustainability is also at the heart of what we do. We recognise the responsibility we hold as one of the UK's largest housing associations.