Why not join us?

Find out more about working with the team at Consortium Procurement.

We care about each other, our members, and the individual impact of our work. We are open-minded, ask questions and actively listen to the response. And when we get together, we make sure it counts to share best practice, hear each other’s perspective, and always have a good laugh.

We operate an agile model focusing on being in the right place at the right time to deliver your work, for our members. In real terms this means an expectation for you to travel to Sunderland for catch-ups with your team monthly, and, depending on your role, the ability to travel for member engagement and our events programme a few times a year.

We are always thinking about our footprint.

Sustainability matters to us and we are actively working towards bronze level accreditation with Investors in the Environment. We have taken steps to reduce our journeys, embrace environmental best practice, and ensure our work contributes to the bigger picture, through our projects and solutions that chart the path to realise net zero ambitions.

Plan for the future.

Our pension scheme is above the minimum matched employer contributions, increasing with long service. We offer competitive salaries, reviewed regularly (to market roles and inflation), and we invest in bespoke training and development opportunities including professional subscriptions, job shadowing and professional coaching. We give our employees peace of mind with Death in Service Scheme, three times the salary. And if you would like to grow your family one day, we have enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption benefits.

We care about your wellbeing.

To support you to be at your best, we offer a range of health and wellbeing support, and are delighted to have been awarded silver accreditation for wellbeing at work. We offer free counselling and advice through the Employer Assistance Programme and our mental health first aiders are on hand to offer support if you ever need it. We encourage you to take time out of your day to get some fresh air and do whatever you need to look after your physical and mental health.

Your voice is heard.

Every employee is actively involved in shaping the future of the organisation, in the strategic direction of our long-term planning and ambition, and in setting shorter-term goals. We have three project working groups which we ask you to join one of, however, everyone is welcome to participate in all three, across sustainability, wellbeing, and equality, diversity, and inclusion, which encourage conversation within our team to benchmark good practice.

And we play our role in a wider mission. We are part of Northern Housing Consortium, where the team deliver policy, engagement, and development work on behalf of the housing sector.

Our aim is for the diversity of our people to reflect in our policy, engagement, and development work that make for a fairer society for all, celebrating our differences but working as one.