Job Title: Category Manager - Property Services Location: Farringdon, London or Beeston, Nottingham Job Type: Permanent Full-Time Position Salary Banding: Nottingham:£54,464 - £57,330 London: £65,356 - £68,796 About Us: Are you looking for a job that gives something back? Do you yearn for a role that contributes towards our vision that everyone should have a home and the chance to live well? Do you have strong commercial skills with a desire to collaborate to make a positive difference? If so, come and join one of the UK`s leading providers of affordable housing and care&support services. We employ over 2000 people to manage&develop our large portfolio of nearly 57,000 homes serving over 75,000 customers across London, the East Midlands, Southern and the East of England. We dare you to join us! This role: As Category Manager for Property Services, you will develop&lead strategic sourcing&purchasing programmes taking the commercial lead to contribute significantly to the delivery of allocated procurement projects. Reporting to the Head of Commercial Procurement, you will be responsible for identifying and working to exceed internal&external customer expectations by delivering demonstrable value for money from your category, creating innovative and robust approaches to getting the best from our suppliers and upholding compliance to all relevant regulation and legislation, including our own internal financial procedures. What you'll need to succeed: You will already have relevant&specialist commercial/industry experience in purchasing&supply in a senior management role and ideally have experience in the Housing Sector. You will also have experience understanding and applying Strategic sourcing methodologies. You will have robust procurement knowledge comprising: advanced negotiation skills, knowledge of strategic sourcing methodologies, knowledge of supply chain theory, persuading and influencing and interpersonal skills, contract law and dispute resolution, statistical and data analysis skills, knowledge of market areas related to specific work categories, finance and leasing knowledge, business development and marketing plans, business accounting. At MTVH, you will support the Head of Commercial Procurement to create organisational excellence in procurement and purchasing and you will develop and lead a specific strategic sourcing programme for your defined categories, taking the lead on specific/allocated portfolio of sourcing categories, and contributing significantly to the delivery of allocated procurement projects. You will keep abreast of and ensure overall compliance with the latest internal financial procedures, relevant legislation®ulatory procurement compliance and work with your stakeholders to support a compliant balance of a flexible and commercial approach to project management. You will strive to exceed customer requirements by demonstrating the best value for money and excellent customer service, through compliance with category priorities and contracts, and by actively managing the marketplace through the development of key strategies for supplier and contract management. Additionally, you will support the successful development of supplier&contract management capabilities at MTVH to ensure your stakeholders are aware of their obligations and have access to the most appropriate resources. You will also adopt a Category Management approach, to ensure you are continually up to date and monitoring&reporting the detailed expenditure within your defined category, the suppliers&operating markets within, the products&services they provide, current performance&service levels, value for money&opportunities for efficiency, and you will work to understand existing supplier performance and contract compliance in liaison with stakeholders. You will be a Member of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) or an appropriate professional institute or relevant experience and you will have a degree-level qualification (or equivalent) plus specialist procurement knowledge and experience. Please note :- we do not currently offer visa sponsorship. What?s in it for you? Our benefits include:- 28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time) per year 2 volunteering days per year for things like helping out in local communities An additional ?Beliefs day? once a year to have an extra a day off Enhanced pension with matched contributions of up to 9% Life assurance cover 3 x your salary Health cash plan scheme for your everyday healthcare needs which you can add your family members too Tenancy deposit ? interest free loan to help with rental deposits Access to extensive learning and training opportunities with Wisebox platform Colleague virtual social platform with our workplace pages where you can keep up to date with the organisational activity and link in with colleagues Career progression across the organisation with our mentoring programme and apprenticeships We are committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues and support this as an organisation About us Learn more about our benefits and organisation by viewing our attached document Our promise Here at Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) we want to capture the value that difference brings and are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We work collaboratively ?Serving people better every day? to educate, support and develop all of our diverse employees and the communities that we serve. We want every employee and every customer to feel comfortable enough to be their true self and are working tirelessly in the background to create an environment that encourages our employees to challenge non-inclusive behaviours and to be mindful of their own and other?s wellbeing. Our core values of Dare, Care and Collaborate demonstrate that we are a people focused business, solving social issues by working together! We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found so we do encourage you to complete the application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.