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Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Duration: Permanent
Location: Gloucester
Job Ref: 204362

The Benefact Group is looking for a Group Procurement Adviser, specialising in IT, to join our Gloucester office. You’ll support the sourcing and procurement of IT goods and services, ensuring value for money, compliance with internal policies, and alignment with the Group’s technology strategy. The role will focus on sourcing, contract management, supplier performance, and stakeholder engagement across IT categories such as software, hardware, cloud services, and telecoms.

Join a collaborative and inclusive culture that’s committed to making a difference and building a more sustainable future. Ranked amongst the UK's top 50 Best Large Companies to Work For in 2024, we offer fantastic career and development opportunities within a rapidly growing, innovative Group — where all profits go to charity and good causes.

• Supplier & Contract Oversight: Manage stakeholder relationships, oversee supplier selection and monitoring, and ensure contract accuracy and completeness
• Strategic Procurement & Tendering: Lead tender processes, coordinate supplier responses, and manage contract drafting and due diligence
• Cost Optimization & Budgeting: Identify cost‑saving opportunities, support budget holders with expense planning, and track savings through contract management plans
• Risk & Compliance Management: Assess contract risks, monitor supplier credit ratings, and ensure adherence to the SRM Framework and regulatory reporting
• Operational Support & Governance: Guide contract relationship managers, prioritize critical contracts, and manage the Procure‑to‑Pay (P2P) process and technology requisitions

• IT Procurement experience
• Effective negotiation skills used with suppliers to drive the best value out of contracts
• Proven ability to identify risks to the group and in‑depth knowledge of the due diligence process to mitigate these
• Confident in managing stakeholders at all levels and providing appropriate challenge
• Understanding of various regulations required for critical/important contracts (e.g. PRA SS2/21, PRA SS1/21, FCA Rulebook, EIOPA DORA, CBI Guidance on Outsourcing, EBA Outsourcing to Cloud)

• Financial services experience preferred, but not essential

• A competitive salary – let's discuss it
• Hybrid working
• Group Personal Pension – up to 12% employer contribution
• Generous annual bonus scheme between 6% and 24%
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, and a holiday buy‑and‑sell scheme
• Health and wellbeing benefits, including private healthcare, income protection and life assurance
• £200 annual personal grant to a charity of your choice
• Encouraged to take at least one volunteering day per year
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Full study support to gain professional qualifications
• Access to virtual GP
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

“A great opportunity to make a difference within the IT Procurement space across the Group, leading on exciting technology procurement tenders and ensuring best value.”

Benefact Group is a unique international financial services Group made up of over 30 businesses. We are owned by a charity and have been the 3rd largest UK corporate donor over a decade, having given away £250 million since 2014. We aim to become the UK’s number one corporate donor, with strategic objectives to double the Group’s size.

We believe in attracting, empowering, growing and rewarding talented people, offering fantastic opportunities for career and personal development. Our giving ethos, 135‑year history and diverse activities foster a culture of kindness, great ambition, and passionate people driven to be better.

We are committed to an inclusive culture where every individual feels valued and respected. We welcome applications from everyone. If you require additional support during the recruitment process, please let us know.