Company

Anglian WaterSee more

addressAddressPeterborough, Cambridgeshire
type Form of workPermanent
salary Salary£46,000 to £50,000
CategoryAccounting & Finance

Job description

Job Description

Salary £46k - £50k, salary dependent 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

Working within the Commercial Procurement team you'll be responsible for creating and delivering a procurement plan for a range of spend categories. This will include identifying opportunities for consolidating spend, improving resilience and undertaking tendering processes. With an overall department spend of over £650m pa, this role will be focused in the Operational Procurement Team, who cover a very diverse range of activities, including technology solutions, operational services and construction services (e.g. Chemicals, Pumps, M&E Services and Fleet Services).

You will be someone who takes ownership to drive cost reduction and supplier performance improvement whilst providing a strong procurement service to our business stakeholders. The ability to project manage will be critical to your success in this role along with a proven track record of excellent stakeholder engagement and management. An ability to 'hear' and understand the business needs are essential requirements. You'll need to be able to deliver effective strategies with tangible value add benefits that achieve the business outcomes.

What does it take to be a Procurement Specialist?

  • CIPS Professional standard and membership or studying towards

  • Experience in Procurement of operational services

  • Demonstrable experience of running a complex tender process including the RFI/RFP process

  • The ability to run complex strategic sourcing events from strategy to completion

  • Experience of building commercial models, developing meaningful and realistic KPI's

  • Proven experience of negotiation to achieve valued business outcomes

  • Building strong working relationships with stakeholders and third parties

  • A willingness to think and challenge standard protocols

  • Cost optimisation of market or commercial opportunities

  • Overseeing supplier performance to ensure best practice is always followed

  • Ensuring agreements support the Purchase to Pay process and allow for easy and effective procurement

  • Understanding and taking an interest in key trends and any regulatory impacts within the market, using these to help develop both category and sourcing plans to exploit or mitigate these, whilst ensuring creative solutions are aligned to our business objectives.

As a valued employee, you'll be entitled to:

  • Personal private health care

  • 26 days annual leave - rising with length of service

  • Flexible working

  • Competitive pension scheme - Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 6%

  • Bonus scheme

  • 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 and who thrives in a fast-paced environment.

Closing date: 11th February 2024

Interview Dates: 15th & 16th February 2024

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Refer code: 2630275. Anglian Water - The previous day - 2024-01-27 05:13

Anglian Water

Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
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