PROCUREMENT MANAGER — CONTRACTS & SUPPLY CHAIN
Residential Property | North West UK
Salary: up to £60,000 per year
If you want an easy ride, this probably isn't the place. But if you want to do your very best work, it just might be.
We're building a UK residential platform focused on homes and communities that work for real people, backed by the experience and scale of one of Europe's largest residential operators and shaped here with a clear sense of ownership and long-term responsibility. Our brand has just launched. We're growing fast and we're hiring the people who'll define how this business operates.
THE ROLE
This is a build role as much as a management role. We're bringing procurement in-house across a portfolio of 2,000+ homes and we need someone to define how we work with suppliers; the framework, the standards, the contracts and the relationships.
We're inheriting a supplier landscape that's grown organically. Some contracts are well-structured; others aren't. Some relationships are strong; others need resetting. This role exists to bring rigour to all of it and then run it. The decisions made here show up in the quality of what gets delivered to residents every day; that's the standard we're working to.
WHAT YOU'LL OWN
• Reviewing and reshaping the inherited contract and supplier landscape; mapping, rationalising and ensuring every material contract is properly documented and managed
• Building the procure-to-pay framework from the ground up; how we select, appoint, onboard, manage and exit suppliers
• Supplier performance management; setting expectations, reviewing delivery and making the hard calls when standards aren't met
• Tender and evaluation frameworks for material contracts; commercially defensible, well-evidenced and consistently applied
• Spend analytics and supply chain oversight; identifying consolidation opportunities and cost efficiencies across the supplier base
WHAT THE ROLE OFFERS
The chance to build something properly. You'll have the authority and the leadership support to reshape a supply chain that will underpin the performance of a growing residential portfolio. The scope is broad, the commercial stakes are real and the opportunity to make a lasting mark on how this business operates is genuine.
This is the kind of role where what you build in year one still matters in year five.
WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR
• A solid procurement and contracts background, ideally in residential property, facilities management or a multi-site operational environment
• Experience building or significantly reshaping a supplier framework; you've done this before and you know what good looks like
• A track record of managing supplier performance with commercial rigour; setting expectations, reviewing delivery and making the hard calls
• Comfortable building process whilst managing live supplier relationships simultaneously
• Practical and commercial; you make decisions grounded in operational reality not just contractual theory
Our values are simple: stay grounded, use your judgement, own it and play the long game. All within a culture of high challenge and high support.
If this sounds like the role you've been looking for, we'd like to hear from you.