Operational Procurement Lead - Water Buying Desk (Contract)

Morgan Philips Group SA; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Morgan Philips Group SA is seeking an Operational Procurement Manager to lead the buying desk for the Water division across regions. You will drive supplier performance, maintain governance over P-card spend, and ensure compliance with procurement policies.

The role focuses on cost avoidance, improved purchasing behaviours, and data-driven decision making, delivering value through standardised processes and closer stakeholder collaboration.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in an operational procurement role within multi-site or complex environments.
• Track record of delivering cost avoidance and value through day-to-day procurement.
• Experience enforcing compliance with supplier frameworks and purchasing policies.
• Strong supplier management, performance monitoring, and issue resolution.
• Experience improving purchasing behaviours (catalog adoption, reducing non-compliant spend).
• Experience with SOPs and procurement processes.
• Experience managing transactional procurement activity.
• Advanced MS Excel data analysis and reporting; translating data into insights.
• Experience with ERP/P2P and master data management.
• Knowledge of P-card spend controls and governance.
• Stakeholder management across cross-functional teams.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Manage the performance of the Buying Desk team and meet SLA KPIs.
• Act as escalation point for procurement queries.
• Resolve non-standard procurement queries across operations.
• Develop, implement, and maintain SOPs for operational procurement.
• Enforce compliance with preferred supplier pathways.
• Deliver against a cost avoidance savings target.
• Improve catalogue usage and reduce non-catalogue purchases.
• Lead supply chain rationalisation across the Water division.
• Produce and analyse procurement data to support decisions.
• Support onboarding of new preferred suppliers.
• Oversee P-card spend governance and master data integrity.
• Liaise with Group Procurement to maintain master data.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder mgmt

Data analysis

Excel

ERP/P2P systems

P-card governance

Procurement policy compliance

Supplier management

Cost avoidance delivery

SOP development

Education

Degree-level education

MCIPS/CIPS (Desirable)

Tools

ERP

P2P systems

Job description

Morgan Philips Group SA is seeking an Operational Procurement Manager to lead the buying desk for the Water division across regions. You will drive supplier performance, maintain governance over P-card spend, and ensure compliance with procurement policies.

The role focuses on cost avoidance, improved purchasing behaviours, and data-driven decision making, delivering value through standardised processes and closer stakeholder collaboration.