Time left to apply End Date: January 6, 2025 (21 days left to apply)
Job requisition id R29031
Circa £65k, salary depending on skills and experience
Permanent
Full time, 37 hours
Home working and Peterborough Office (2-3 days in the office)
Anglian Water offers a flexible approach, this role provides you the flexibility to work from home and from an Anglian Water office. Your base location will be Thorpe Wood House, an Anglian Water site.
Taking contract management further
The Procurement Manager role is responsible for managing a team and ensuring the planning, management, and timely delivery of a pipeline of strategic sourcing initiatives and negotiation of contracts. You will play a critical role in achieving the required outcomes for the initiatives to support 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 engage with multiple senior internal and external stakeholders. Ensuring relationships with the market are managed effectively to achieve strategic outcomes 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 technical platforms are updated to demonstrate and allow for a real-time view of projects/events, their progress, and enable relevant reporting.
You will actively support and mentor the wider community within the Commercial Procurement Team, particularly those in your team.
The role will support the 'Head of' to create and implement the annual procurement business plan with relevant business unit stakeholders to meet business goals and requirements while managing risk and maximizing opportunities.
What will you be doing?
1. Checking and improving the plans and activities of the team for different projects and categories, and finding new opportunities.
2. Delivery of the agreed annual procurement business plan ensuring it is communicated to relevant business unit stakeholders and the team.
3. Managing the agreed program of activity in the area, including strategic sourcing, category management, and mobilization.
4. Management of own outputs to agreed time plan.
5. Ensuring project planning processes are followed and maintained to enable activity and performance reporting.
6. Ensuring contracts have good supplier performance controls enabled through effective category strategies and sourcing exercises.
7. Manage sustainable procurement risk proactively and follow policies and procedures for corporate and project risks.
8. Ensuring the effective use of Procurement ICT Systems including S4, ARIBA GB, ARIBA sourcing, and any future technology – working as an advocate and champion.
9. Lead a team to effectively conduct strategic sourcing events or follow good sourcing practice in line with Procurement regulations and covenant requirements.
10. Ensure effective and consistent project planning and reporting across the team.
What does it take to be a Procurement Manager?
1. Substantial experience in successful strategic strategy creation and category management capability.
2. CIPS Professional standard and membership to a minimum of level 5 OR educated to professional or degree level in a procurement or commercial related course.
3. Strong Commercial acumen.
4. Proven track record of bid assessment.
5. Expert of European Procurement & other relevant legislation.
6. Significant experience of managing a small team.
7. Established professional with extensive commercial acumen experience.
8. Established professional with extensive experience within a Strategic Procurement team.
As a valued employee, you’ll be entitled to:
1. Personal private health care.
2. 26 days annual leave – rising with length of service.
3. Competitive pension scheme – Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 6%.
4. Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle.
Why Anglian Water?
As the water sector continues to face major financial, regulatory, and environmental challenges over the coming years, Anglian Water and its Partners have continued to set the pace with innovative ideas and solutions to ensure that we deliver an outstanding service to our customers.
As a result, we are looking for a self-motivated and self-assured Procurement Professional with a sharp mind who thrives in a fast-paced environment.
Closing date: 5 January 2025
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We are committed to reflecting the diversity of the communities we serve in both our workforce and our supply chain partners to help us understand and meet the needs of our customers. We are passionate and dedicated to the learning and development of our people, making sure they have the right skills and knowledge to be successful and to help achieve their potential.
We want to give everyone equal access to our recruitment process. If you have a disability or long-term condition, including neurodiversity and mental health conditions, we’ll support you throughout your application and make any adjustments to ensure your disability or long-term condition is not a barrier to recruitment.
To apply, you’ll need your up-to-date CV; we also recommend uploading a cover letter – tell us what has made you apply and what skills you can bring to the position. We will be in touch after your application has been reviewed, following the closing date.
If you are offered a job with us, you’ll be subject to the relevant employment checks for your role, which could include references, driving licence check, DBS Check, as well as your right to work in the UK.
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