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Job Description
Our company ethos is to improve people's lives by providing decent, safe, and high-quality homes and services. Help us to serve this mission by joining our crucial Guinness Property team.
Working closely with procurement you will drive commercial strategy and ensure effective cost control and cash flow management across the region. You will ensure that commercial pricing structures are well balanced against quality, cost and efficiency.
We operate a hybrid working model which requires employees to work in the office for three days per week with the remaining 2 being from home.
Key Responsibilities
- Risk management: Identify and manage commercial risks / opportunities and ensure robust commercial reporting.
- Sourcing and supplier selection: Identifying and choosing the right suppliers based on quality, reliability, cost, and other factors.
- Contract negotiation: Ensuring that we are getting the best value across our contracts.
- Cost saving: Ensure that the commercial pricing structures we have in place with regional subcontractors are effective, efficient and provide value for money.
- Supplier engagement: Building and maintaining strong relationships with suppliers for better pricing, service, and long-term reliability.
- Data analysis: Analysing market trends to identify cost-saving opportunities and potential suppliers.
Essential
Role Criteria:
- Proven ability to produce accurate costs submissions, valuations and provide margin analysis on works.
- Experience in managing contracts that deliver works in a responsive environment.
- Good attention to detail and the ability to prioritise and manage a varied workload to meet agreed timescales.
- Understanding of construction industry processes, frameworks and ways of working.
- A full driving licence is required for this role.
Desirable
- Experience in the social housing sector.
If you’re interested in joining us and would like to apply for this role, please review the role profile to view all of the key responsibilities and to ensure you meet the essential criteria.
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About Us
The Guinness Partnership is one of the leading providers of affordable housing in England. We build and manage homes and provide housing services for around 140,000 residents nationwide. Guinness Property, our in-house maintenance service, delivers repairs to 55,000 of our homes. Our national teams deliver rapid-response housing repairs, maintenance, and improvement services to ensure our residents’ homes are safe and maintained to a high standard.
The Guinness Partnership is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all colleagues, and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.
