Procurement Specialist

Wales & West Utilities Limited; Newport; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 51,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Flexible working

Pension plan

Annual leave

Job summary

Wales & West Utilities Limited in Newport is seeking a Procurement Specialist to contribute to the delivery of the WWU Procurement Strategy and Annual Procurement Plan. Reporting to the Category Manager, you will support the team by managing regulated and non-regulated sourcing events and leading supplier and contract management.

You will maintain the Approved Vendor List, ensure compliance with WWU policy, and collaborate with stakeholders to maximise value from supplier relationships.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 A-levels with a minimum grade or equivalent.
• Good level of commercial or contract knowledge.
• Strong ability to build and maintain good business relationships with stakeholders from within the business and suppliers.

Responsibilities

• Successfully manage contracts and supplier relationships to maximise the benefit and value to WWU, including acting as the first point of contact for both suppliers and business stakeholders to help resolve sourcing and contract queries.
• Maintain the category AVL to ensure the optimum number of suitably competent and fully accredited suppliers are available for use by the business to allow them to comply with the WWU Procurement Policy.
• Ensuring ongoing business stakeholder compliance with WWU procurement policy, procedures and processes and assisting in the development and implementation of any new policy, procedures and processes.
• Contribute to the ongoing development and performance improvement of the Procurement Team through the active participation in both current and future development projects.
• Ensuring efficient and accurate administration and maintenance of appropriate records, documents, files and associated systems of sourcing events, supplier information, contracts and related contractual documentation to ensure a robust audit trail is established.

Skills

Supplier management

Stakeholder communication

Contract knowledge

Relationship building

Negotiation

Education

A-levels (2+

Job description

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Who are we?

We are a gas distribution business that services the gas infrastructure across Wales and the south-west of England. We serve our customers and communities with safe, reliable, and affordable energy services whilst investing to create a sustainable future to deliver our carbon-free vision for 2050.

What we’re looking for?

We’re looking for a Procurement Specialist to contribute to the delivery of the WWU Procurement Strategy and Annual Procurement Plan.

Reporting to the relevant Category Manager as part of the Procurement Team, this person will support the Category and wider department by managing and compliantly delivering regulated and non-regulated sourcing events.

They will lead on the supplier and contract management processes for certain tactical suppliers to enable the WWU business to maximise the value obtained from its supplier relationships, including on-going supplier performance.

They will support the maintenance of the Approved Vendor List (AVL) for their category to ensure optimum availability of suppliers who are fully accredited and compliant with the required standards of WWU

We’ll trust you to:

• Successfully manage contracts and supplier relationships to maximise the benefit and value to WWU, including acting as the first point of contact for both suppliers and business stakeholders to help resolve sourcing and contract queries
• Maintain the category AVL to ensure the optimum number of suitably competent and fully accredited suppliers are available for use by the business to allow them to comply with the WWU Procurement Policy
• Ensuring ongoing business stakeholder compliance with WWU procurement policy, procedures and processes and assisting in the development and implementation of any new policy, procedures and processes.
• Contribute to the ongoing development and performance improvement of the Procurement Team through the active participation in both current and future development projects.
• Ensuring efficient and accurate administration and maintenance of appropriate records, documents, files and associated systems of sourcing events, supplier information, contracts and related contractual documentation to ensure a robust audit trail is established.

You can read a full job description here .

You’ll need to have:

• Minimum of 2 A-levels with a minimum grade or equivalent.
• Relevant experience in either procurement, contracting or supplier management.
• Good level of commercial or contract knowledge.
• Strong ability to build and maintain good business relationships with stakeholders from within the business and suppliers.
• The ability to confidently and effectively communicate with stakeholders from within the business and suppliers.
• The ability to develop and maintain a strong knowledge of the WWU Procurement Policy, processes & procedures.
• The ability to develop and maintain a working knowledge of wider key WWU Policy, processes & procedures.

We would also love to hear about anything else you feel you could add or bring to the role!

As we are a safety critical organisation, all offers of employment are subject to pre-employment drug & alcohol screening.

What’s in it for you?

• A competitive salary starting at £44,399 rising to £50,740
• Flexible working opportunities
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays which can be tailored to celebrations that reflect your beliefs
• Retirement Savings Plan (pension) with Aviva: 5% employee contribution, with WWU doubling your contribution at 10% - totalling 15%
• 14 x salary Life Insurance linked to membership of the Retirement Savings Plan
• “Choices” flexible benefit scheme options including corporate gym memberships, dental insurance, and health cash-plans
• Access to our Financial Wellbeing Programme - allowing you to manage your benefits flexibly to suit your financial needs
• Enhanced pay for parental leave
• Retail discounts and cashback scheme
• Annual salary review
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Company Sick Pay
• In-house Occupational Health Team
• Employee Assistance Programme

The way we do things

Our Ambition, Priorities and Values inform everything we do as a business – from our strategic planning to the performance management of our colleagues.

Our values underpin everything we do and we are committed to creating a working environment that supports and fosters diversity, inclusion and equity, where all of our colleagues feel valued and supported to contribute to their full potential.

We are focused on creating a culture where it doesn’t matter about gender, race, sexuality or disability; it’s about our colleagues’ skills, the way we do things and how we live our values.

If you think you’d make a good addition to the team, we would love to hear from you!

You can also ask us about flexible working practices that may be available or tell us if you have any special requirements during the application process.