Supplier and Contract Manager

Job description

Contract terms

Starting salary: PO7 (£57,663 – £60,819) – PO8 (£61,980 – £65,476)
Work location: Alexandra House, 10 Station Road, Wood Green, London, N22 7TR
Hours per week: 36 per week
Contract type: Fixed term contract (12 months from start date)
Closing date: Sunday, 20th July 2025 at 23:59
Expected interview date: Friday 1st August 2025

About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.

Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the role

This is a critical leadership role at the heart of the Council’s digital transformation journey. You’ll be responsible for overseeing all IT purchasing, procurement, and supplier relationship management activities, ensuring full adherence to the Procurement Act 2023 and the Procurement Regulations 2024. Working closely with Digital Services, Strategic Procurement, and Legal, you’ll coordinate the end-to-end procurement cycle, manage supplier performance, and track operational KPIs to support service excellence. You’ll also manage key revenue budgets, ensuring financial compliance and identifying cost pressures.

Key responsibilities include building influential relationships across council services to align technology commissioning with strategic outcomes, ensuring the delivery of on-time, fit-for-purpose IT commissioning with robust legal and procurement input, and developing operational reporting to monitor procurement KPIs. You’ll lead the IT procurement strategy and contract roadmap in collaboration with application management teams, support continuous improvement through data-driven analysis and cross-directorate engagement, and represent the Council at senior level both internally and externally. Additionally, you’ll lead, develop, and inspire a team to deliver excellence in procurement and supplier management.

About the team

You’ll be joining a collaborative and forward-thinking digital function that places strategic procurement at the heart of service excellence. Reporting directly to the Head of Technology, you’ll play a pivotal leadership role in shaping the Council’s digital commissioning approach. Supporting you will be one Senior Contract Officer, dedicated to delivering operational excellence and supplier performance. Together, you’ll work across a diverse network of internal departments and external partners, fostering strong relationships and driving value through effective procurement and contract management.

About you

We’re looking for a candidate with proven experience in IT procurement, contract management, and supplier performance oversight. The ideal person will have a solid grasp of public sector procurement regulations and demonstrate excellent stakeholder management and communication skills. We’re seeking a strategic thinker who can deliver commercial improvements and drive service value. Above all, this is a leadership role—so we need someone collaborative, influential, and focused on inspiring performance across all levels.

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community.  Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.

Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role, please ensure that you do so as soon as possible.  

Additionally, we are aware that automated emails may be diverted through to junk email folders.  Please continue to check these through the application process.  If you have any questions about the status of your application, please contact ResourcingHub@haringey.gov.uk