Procurement Manager

Anglian Water; Peterborough; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the water sector seeks a Procurement Manager to oversee the IT Procurement team. This role involves strategic sourcing, managing contracts, and ensuring effective stakeholder engagement. The ideal candidate will have substantial experience in procurement and strong leadership skills. The position offers flexibility with home working and office attendance, along with competitive benefits.

Benefits

Personal private health care

26 days annual leave

Flexible working

Competitive pension scheme

Bonus scheme

Flexible benefits for wellbeing

Qualifications

• Substantial experience in strategic strategy creation and category management.
• Proven track record of bid assessment.
• Significant experience of managing a small team.

Responsibilities

• Manage IT Procurement team and strategic sourcing initiatives.
• Ensure effective project planning and reporting.
• Lead a team to conduct strategic sourcing events.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic Thinking

Influencing Skills

Commercial Acumen

Education

CIPS Professional standard

Degree in procurement or commercial related course

Tools

S4

ARIBA GB

ARIBA sourcing

Job description

Competitive salary, 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 the IT Procurement 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 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, preferably within the IT sector 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 real time view of projects/ events, their progress and enable relevant reporting.

You will use your knowledge to actively support and mentor the wider community within the Commercial Procurement Team in particular the those in your team.

The role will support the 'Head of' create and implement the annual procurement business plan with relevant business unit stakeholders to meet business goals and requirements while managing risk and maximising opportunities.

What will you be doing?

• Checking and improving the plans and activities of team for different projects and categories, and finding new opportunities

• Delivery of the agreed annual procurement business plan ensuring it is communicated to relevant business unit stakeholders and the team.

• Managing the agreed program of activity in the area, including strategic sourcing, category management and mobilisation.

• Management of own outputs to agreed time plan.

• Ensuring project planning processes are followed and maintained to enable activity, performance reporting.

• Make sure contracts have good supplier performance controls enabled through effective category strategies and sourcing exercises.

• Manage sustainable procurement risk proactively and following policies and procedures for corporate and project risks.

• Ensuring the effective use of Procurement ICT Systems including S4, ARIBA GB, ARIBA sourcing and any future technology - working as advocate and champion

• Lead a team to effectively conduct strategic sourcing events or follow good sourcing practice in line with Procurement regulations and covenant requirements

• Ensure effective and consistent project planning and reporting across the team

What does it take to be a Procurement Manager?

• 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 of managing a small team.

• Established professional with extensive commercial acumen experience.

• Established professional with extensive experience within a Strategic Procurement team.

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: 5th June 2025

Interviews: Week Commencing 16th June 2025

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