Permanent – 36.25 Hours – Full Time

RBH own and manage around 13,000 homes within the Borough of Rochdale in Greater Manchester. We are the largest provider of affordable housing in the Borough and, in an economic environment where the supply of housing is at its most challenged, we take very seriously our responsibility for supporting the people who live in our homes and communities to live well and thrive.

Our core purpose is to be a provider of quality homes and services to our customers who live across the towns and villages of the Borough of Rochdale. Our role in making places and building a sense of community through the provision of homes and services is at the heart of our role.

Our primary focus is on providing warm homes in safe communities where people want to live and raise their families. We're excited to see the changes that will be delivered over time for our customers, and we'd love to hear from people who want to join us and help us to deliver those improvements.

RBH currently have an exciting opportunity for a Procurement Co-ordinator to join our Procurement team, working within the Finance and Procurement Team.

What you will be doing:

You will be responsible for providing a comprehensive range of procurement support to teams, colleagues and stakeholders and will offer advice and guidance on how and when to procure to achieve the best result.

In this role you will lead and manage the procurement exercises, tender processes end to end, and facilitate the processes on the procurement e-portal. You’ll contribute to the development of strategy, policy and guidance documents, and demonstrate experience of managing compliant procurement processes from stakeholder engagement all the tway through to contract award in a public sector, this will also include formally drafting contracts.

Who are we looking for?

* Experience in operating a comprehensive compliant procurement service to an organisation, ideally a public sector organisation, in Social Housing.

* You will hold a CIPS Level 6 (or working towards).

* Equivalent qualification to graduate or professional level.

* Fluent in spoken and written English.

* Excellent Microsoft Office skills, particularly Teams, Excel, PowerPoint and Word.

* Demonstrate excellent time keeping and a strong work ethic.

* Experience of running and managing a full end to end procurement tender process, as well as experience in drafting post tender contract documentation.

* The ability to find innovative solutions and to adapt and prioritise deadlines with competing tasks in a fast-paced environment.

* A good knowledge and understanding of the requirements of current public sector procurement legislation & best practice.

* Ability to build and maintain strong partnerships with customers, colleagues and partner agencies.

* The ability to demonstrate a commitment to customer focused service provision, and to act as a representative for RBH when dealing with suppliers and other external bodies.

What's in it for you?

As an RBH employee, you will receive a range of fantastic benefits, including: -

* SMART working arrangements

* Holiday entitlement – 30 days holiday plus all UK bank holidays, with an additional 5 days after completion of five years’ service. Part time employees will receive a pro rata entitlement.

* Ability to purchase up to an additional 5 days leave per year.

* A quality defined contribution pension scheme, with salary exchange and RBH matches your contributions up to 8%

* Healthcare – automatic enrolment into a health care cash plan, covering optical and dental costs, consultation fees and physio to name but a few.

* You will also have access to our Employment Assistance Programme with a 24-hour confidential counselling support for both personal and work-related issues.

* Plus, many more

Please refer to the attached Job Description upon completing your application

Please note, should we receive a high volume of applications, we may look to close the role early, therefore we recommend an early application