What we offer…
We understand how important life is outside of work so, as well as competitive salary and 33 days annual leave, we are totally committed to flexible working. We’ll support you, wherever possible, so that you don’t miss out on what truly matters to you.
If you do ever need a little bit of extra help we have a great employee assistance programme, financial well-being support and access to loads of great discounts with leading high street names.
Our range of network groups are also there to support you to truly be yourself at work and play a key role in helping shape our future.
If you are a member of a professional body we’ll pay for your membership and once you get your top of the range digital kit you’ll be good to go in one of our great offices (or at home!).
A bit about the role…
Here at Homes England Digital, it’s not just about what we do, but why we do it. We want to make sure that the right number of homes are built in the places that people want to live, supporting affordable housing and home ownership, and disrupting the housing market to make sure everyone has a place called Home.
We do this by providing great Digital Services, enabling us to work closer with Local Authorities, Lenders, Housing Associations, and providers. We listen to our Users, developing services in an Agile way, to meet their needs.
We work in multi-disciplinary teams, and you will be working alongside Technical Experts, Digital Experts, and most importantly our Business Teams, provide a whole end to end Delivery journey.
We believe that it’s critical that people continue to learn and develop, we align our roles to the DDAT Framework, and have career pathways in place to ensure you will always understand your next step, and, we have a training plan in place to make sure that it happens
Our Heads of Profession lead our Digital Communities, provide expert guidance and support, making sure that we have the best people and the best practice.
We are also committed to supporting a healthy work life balance, starting with 33 days leave, the option to spend time working from home, and the ability to work flexibly. We underpin all this with our Wellbeing Hub, where ideas and support can always be found.
The main responsibilities of the role include:
- Being responsible for the Procurement of goods and services including administration within Digital.
- Being highly organised and able to act on your own initiative, liaising with colleagues within wider Digital and across the organisation in order to ensure the procurement of hardware and software is providing good value for money.
- Manage Digital procurement diligence when assessing or preparing procurement documentation
- Determining the buying options to assist with the purchasing or various digital assets.
A bit about you…
You’ll be a proactive, commercially focused Digital Procurement Specialist. Your relationship management and collaboration skills will enable you to work effectively with key stakeholders, the wider Digital teams and external suppliers. This is an exciting opportunity for you to add real benefit to Homes England’s Digital Procurement, enabling effective project delivery to our internal and external customers. You’ll will be an effective team player as you will be joining a small close-knit team that works alongside our Central Procurement, legal and Information Security teams, ensuring Procurement governance is always followed.
You’ll will be an effective team player as you will be joining a small close-knit team that works alongside our Central Procurement, legal and Information Security teams ensuring Procurement governance is always followed.
The key skills and knowledge we’re looking for include:
- Experience of working collaboratively with Digital colleagues to analyse scope of requirements of goods and services.
- Previous experience supporting the wider senior team members in shaping digital hardware and software solutions to ensure effective and efficient costs.
- Managing hardware and software procurement processes for tracking and reporting progress.
- Experience using CCS Frameworks.
- Previous experience working within an IT / Digital function.
- Good understanding of Gov.UK.
- Excellent Microsoft Product experience.
Who are we?
We are the Government’s national housing agency. Our role is to accelerate the pace of housebuilding across the country, particularly in areas where there are the most serious affordability issues – meaning people are struggling to find homes.
We have the appetite, influence, expertise and resources to drive positive market change and meet the Government’s ambition to deliver 300,000 new homes a year. We are using our land, influence, funds and knowledge to increase the pace, scale and quality of new homes accelerating delivery in areas of greatest demand and helping create great places to live. Within the next few years, we will have invested over £27 billion across our programmes. To deliver against these aims we’re building a different kind of public service – join us to help make this happen.
Please note that Homes England are currently consulting on a pay and grading review. We will share information with candidates about the outcome of this review and any impact that this may have on this role throughout the recruitment process.
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