Senior Procurement Programme Manager
Senior Procurement Programme Manager
Apply locations: Worthing
Time type: Full time
Posted on: Posted 30+ Days Ago
Time left to apply: End Date: January 24, 2025 (20 days left to apply)
Job requisition id: JR4664
Closing Date: 2025-01-06
Job Title: Senior Procurement Programme Manager
Location: Durrington, West Sussex (Hybrid, 2 days a week)
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 37 hours per week
Salary: £competitive
There has never been a better time to join our organisation as we build towards a greener future, tackling climate change, minimising our environmental impact and reducing our carbon footprint!
Job Overview
Southern Water’s Procurement Services discipline delivers effective governance, reporting, analytics, insights, sustainability, capability development and compliance to support the efficient and ongoing enhancement of the Procurement Function operation. This person will be focused on driving procurement excellence across the Procurement function and wider Southern Water business; they will be accountable for all Companywide communication and business engagement activity as well as the key deliverables of company and Procurement Transformation programmes.
* Deliver enduring strategic and tactical change across the Procurement function, support a demand management approach to provide efficient planning and forecasting across the Procurement function.
* Coordinate all Procurement Communications being published within Southern Water, on the Homepage or the Hub. Own the Procurement Homepage and its updates. Coordinate, edit and publish any supply chain wide communications.
* Manage and develop Procurement’s Business Engagement Model, ensuring regular meetings are held with key senior stakeholders, chairing any Procurement related meetings and, working with the Analytics team, providing associated monthly dashboards.
About You
* You must have previous experience of working within a regulated business.
* You will have excellent Programme and Project management skills.
* You will have excellent communication skills – including verbal, written and presentation – using these to good effect to be able to influence and explain complex concepts in an understandable manner.
* Have the ability to identify, evidence and improve straw man process, in the absence of formal documentation.
Package
This role will be full time Monday to Friday with a hybrid approach to working between our Durrington office and home. We are offering a competitive salary depending on skills and experience as well as other benefits including:
* Company and performance-related bonus
* Generous pension with up to 11% company contribution
* Life assurance payment equal to four times your annual salary
* Health benefits through a Cash Plan
* Two paid community volunteering days a year
* 25 days annual holiday
* Occupational health service
* Stars Reward gateway offering discounts and savings on several products and experiences
* Study support may be available for job-related qualifications
* We offer competitive maternity leave and flexible return to work options
Join our Procurement team and see how far your career could progress with a company committed to career progression, training and development opportunities, our customers and the environment.
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All applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK. You will need to provide evidence of eligibility (e.g. a passport or long birth certificate and proof of NI) and current proof of address (dated within the last 3 months), will be required as part of the recruitment process. If you do not meet these criteria, your application will not be considered.
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