Mott Macdonald Bentley (MMB) are looking to recruit a Logistics Manager What will you be doing as our new Procurement & Logistics Manager? The Procurement Manager role is responsible for managing a team and ensuring the planning, management and timely delivery procurement schedules, deliveries to site on time and logistics management across all SPA schemes. You will play a critical role in achieving the required outcomes for SPA to support the required outcomes for the business, our regulators, owners and customers. You will use your well proven leadership and management experience as well as strategic thinking and excellent influencing abilities to manage and engaging with multiple senior internal and external stakeholders. Ensuring relationships with the market are managed and effective to ensure strategic outcomes are achieved by developing your team and ensuring they have a deep understanding of market dynamics and business demand for given spend areas. Leveraging your extensive experience in procurement and ensuring category profile methodology is incorporated throughout strategy development in your team. Ensuring high quality data and relevant modules within the AWS and SPA technical platforms are updated to demonstrate and allow for real time view of projects/ events, their progress and enable relevant reporting. As well as mentoring and developing your team you will support the wider SPA teams, commercial and delivery to deliver the schemes on time whilst demonstrating value for money. Participation with the Pan Alliance Group will be a key requirement. A little bit about your skills, experience and behaviours The successful Procurement and Logistics Manager will have; Proven ability to achieve strategic outcomes Ability to drive decision making Leadership skills, with ability to manage and coach people Ability to work collaboratively with both internal and external stakeholders Strong negotiation skills Strong level of mathematical reasoning Good organisational skills Strong IT skills Strong attention to detail Excellent working knowledge of Public Sector Procurement legislation Experience of successfully managing change providing measurable service improvement Solid knowledge of supplier or third-party management software Exceptional communication skills with the ability to foster strong supplier relationships Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills Can do attitude Qualifications & Experience Substantial experience in successful strategic strategy creation and category management capability CIPS Professional standard and membership to a minimum of level 5 OR educated to profession or degree level in a procurement or commercial related course Strong Commercial acumen Proved track record of bid assessment Expert of European Procurement & other relevant legislation Strong influencing skills Significant experience experience of managing a small team Established professional with extensive commercial acumen experience Established professional with extensive experience within a Strategic Procurement team At SPA, we are working to combat the impact of climate change and keep fresh, clean water flowing across our region for generations to come. We are now at the pivotal ‘delivery’ milestone of the project, which is a very exciting time to join our team. Our ambition is to build a more inclusive environment. We are committed to celebrating and promoting diversity. The 330km Strategic Pipeline Alliance (SPA) Project by Anglian Water is now projected for completion in AMP8. Anglian Water has adopted Project 13 principles for the execution of this project. To deliver the SPA project, Anglian Water is continuing to collaborate with several key partners, including Farrans, Mott MacDonald Bentley (MMB), Costain, Jacobs, and Atkins. These companies bring a wealth of expertise and experience to the project, ensuring a robust and efficient delivery process. Embracing innovation, digital technology, and new ways of working, we operate as a fully integrated and collaborative alliance. Here at SPA we are looking for extraordinary people who want to help create a place where everyone can thrive and where people are excited to be part of the team. So, whatever your background and however you identify, please apply if you think this role was made for you. We support and encourage flexible working where possible, including remote working, part time hours and open discussion on working hours. Our office is based in Peterborough, but we also have several operational hubs across the length of the programme. Here at SPA, we embrace continuous development and aspire to do better. If you have feedback or suggestions regarding diversity and inclusion in our recruitment process, please do get in touch. Here at SPA our purpose is to ‘Make the East of England Resilient to the Effects of Drought’. To help us work in this way, we look for individuals that demonstrate our key behaviours, aligning with our embedded values and beliefs. Our behaviours are: We do the right thing by, We build trust by, We are always exploring by. Inclusion at Anglian Water and our Alliances: Inclusion is for everyone and we are an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we’re committed to creating an environment where all our colleagues feel they belong. Our benefits include: 26 days holiday plus bank holidays with the option to buy and carry over Flexible pension contributions up to 5% employee 10% employer Life assurance of 4 x salary Income protection Private medical insurance Health cash plan Annual professional institution subscription costs