Strategic Procurement Lead – Infrastructure Projects

awg; Peterborough; Hybrid; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Personal private health care

26 days annual leave

Flexible working

Competitive pension scheme

Bonus scheme

Flexible benefits

Job summary

Anglian Water is seeking a Procurement Specialist to lead strategic sourcing for Programme Development and its infrastructure projects, including AWRC and desalination schemes. You’ll craft procurement plans, consolidate spend, and support tendering and call-off agreements in a hybrid role based in Peterborough.

You’ll drive cost reduction, manage supplier performance, and engage stakeholders to deliver value for customers and the environment.

Qualifications

• CIPS membership or studying towards.
• Experience in procurement of operational services or capital projects.
• Experience running a complex tender process including the RFI/RFP process.
• Ability to run complex strategic sourcing events from strategy to completion.
• Experience 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.
• Willingness to think and challenge standard protocols.
• Ability to manage a varied portfolio and associated workplan with a can-do attitude.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Create and deliver a procurement plan for a range of spend categories to support the development of its project portfolio.
• Identify opportunities for consolidating spend, improving resilience and undertaking tendering processes as well as supporting the development of call-off agreements.
• With project values of upto £750m already in development, the role will be diverse in its exposure to large infrastructure projects.
• Drive cost reduction and supplier performance improvement whilst providing a strong procurement service to our business stakeholders.

Skills

CIPS membership

Procurement experience

Tender process management

Strategic sourcing

Modelling & KPIs

Negotiation

Stakeholder management

Challenge conventional thinking

Portfolio management

Cost optimisation

Supplier performance

P2P alignment

Market/regulatory trends

Job description

Anglian Water is seeking a Procurement Specialist to lead strategic sourcing for Programme Development and its infrastructure projects, including AWRC and desalination schemes. You’ll craft procurement plans, consolidate spend, and support tendering and call-off agreements in a hybrid role based in Peterborough.

You’ll drive cost reduction, manage supplier performance, and engage stakeholders to deliver value for customers and the environment.