Job Introduction
Notting Hill Genesis is completing a major, digital change programme moving services to the cloud to make a positive impact on the lives of its residents and to achieve greater business efficiency.
Can you as an IT Assets Management and Contracts Lead play a key part in this? As the IT Assets & Contracts Lead can you manage all IT hardware and software assets and the end-to-end IT contracts process ensuring IT business and corporate objectives of financial efficiencies and value for money are achieved?
Main Responsibility
As IT Assets and Contracts Lead, you will focus on the IT Group, working with the Central Procurement Team and business partners, implementing aspects of strategic sourcing plans, executing tenders, also researching and identifying routes to market for new requirements. Key tasks include;
- Managing all IT hardware & software assets, ensuring the lifecycle is trackable at all times
- Ensuring all asset management processes are compliant and fit for purpose
- Ensuring that service delivery teams fully understand asset management processes
- Acting as the first point of contact for all IT procurement and contract renewal projects
- Providing support in implementing and ongoing management of procurement agreements, spend analysis, contracts registered & FaTS (OJEU) processes
- Managing contract budgets, maintaining the supplier contracts database and registers, challenging contractors’ performance, re-negotiating existing contracts and achieving value from each contract
- Supporting IT’s approach to asset management and contract compliance, working with the IS Managers and the team to influence the overall approach to delivering savings
All aspects of the role will require you to deliver a high quality, customer focused, responsive service, ensuring delivery is in line with NHG’s cultural and corporate strategies. NHG are using the latest Microsoft Cloud and ITSM technology, ServiceNow, with the MS Office suite.
The Ideal Candidate
The successful candidate will ideally hold a professional qualification in contract or asset management along with;
- Solid day to day Contract Management and Asset Management experience with a good understanding of IT and the public sector
- Negotiating and managing IT contracts, implementing sourcing strategies and achieving savings and operational efficiencies, also presenting to Senior Management and decision makers
- Experience of supplier relationship management, a sound knowledge of procurement approaches, relevant legislation and an understanding of FaTS (formerly OJEU) and UK laws.
Softer skills will include an organised, collaborative and robust approach with a strong commitment to promoting best practice, compliance and delivery of the contract and asset services. Clear and concise written and communication skills are important, with the ability to challenge existing procedures, provide and support innovation. You’ll have good commercial acumen and strong analytical skills. You’ll lead by example, facilitate, acknowledge equality and diversity, be open to change, gain trust, influence outcomes and transfer knowledge.
This role offers a salary of £41,205 increasing to £45,783 after successful completion of six month probation.
The office base is Kings Cross, London. Working remotely, you will be required to attend the office at least 2, if not 3 days a week.
Benefits
In return we offer:
- Excellent annual leave allowance and flexible working opportunities (qualifying period may apply)
- Generous pension scheme
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay - we offer enhanced maternity and adoption pay in addition to statutory entitlements (qualifying period may apply)
- Employee assistance - free confidential advice and counselling services provided by independent specialist organisations
- Health cash plan
- Staff discounts - we give our staff access to discounts at hundreds of major retailers, gyms, restaurants, entertainment, days out, insurance and much more
- Interest free loans: season ticket loan, tenancy deposit loan and training loan
- Cycle to work scheme
- Life Assurance x 4 annual salary
How to apply
- Applications close Tuesday 28th February 2023 at 23:59
Please apply for this role with us online. If you are not able to apply online, please contact our HR team via jobs@nhg.org.uk to discuss your requirements.
About the Company
Notting Hill Genesis is now one of the largest housing associations in London and the south east. We own and manage more than 66,000 homes and employ around 2,000 staff. We provide homes across a range of tenures and are committed to continuing to deliver housing that is affordable to all. Our roots reach back to the 1960s when our legacy organisations were established by local people who shared a similar vision – to house west London’s working poor, providing them a home from which to build themselves and their families a secure future.
Our people
We value our people and both respect and celebrate their differences. We’re proud to say that our colleagues come from different backgrounds, with varied outlooks and are from all over the world. We encourage and are committed to diversity. We know that when people with varied experiences and unique points of view come together, it makes us a stronger organisation and more able to help the wide range of residents that we serve. We want all our colleagues to bring their full selves to work in a culture and environment based on respect and fairness, regardless of role, background or ability.
Our pledges
We are proud signatories of the G15 group’s diversity pledge to encourage more diversity in the boardroom and at senior level. The pledge on Black, Asian and minority ethnic diversity commits NHG to reflect the ethnic diversity of the communities we work in at all levels and particularly at senior managerial, leadership and board levels.
We have under-representation of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic colleagues at this level and are keen to fill this gap. We welcome applications from everyone. For this role, we especially encourage Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates to join us and be part of an inclusive culture that celebrates diversity, equality of opportunity and provides a place for you to grow your career.
We are also a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident employer and have signed up to Harry’s Pledge. We actively monitor the diversity of our workforce and strive to show equal representation throughout all levels of the organisation.
To find out more about Diversity and inclusion at NHG, please visit our website.
