Strategic Procurement Lead, Programme Development

Anglian Water Group Ltd.; Peterborough; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health care

26 days annual leave

Flexible working

Pension with company match

Bonus scheme

Wellbeing benefits

Job summary

Anglian Water is recruiting a Procurement Specialist to lead strategic sourcing for the Programme Development team, shaping procurement plans for major capital projects such as the AWRC and desalination schemes.

This role demands strong negotiation and stakeholder management to drive cost reduction, consolidate spend, run RFI/RFP tendering, and deliver value-enhancing agreements, with hybrid working and a Peterborough base.

Qualifications

• CIPS professional standard and membership or studying towards.
• Experience in procurement of operational services and/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.
• A 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 ease 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

• Provide a strategic sourcing function to the Programme Development team and deliver a procurement plan for a range of spend categories.
• Identify opportunities for consolidating spend, improving resilience and undertaking tendering processes.
• Support the development of call‑off agreements and manage supplier performance.
• Drive cost reduction and stakeholder engagement to meet business needs.
• Demonstrate project management and an ability to respond to changing requirements.

Skills

Strategic sourcing

Tender management

Stakeholder management

Negotiation

Cost reduction

Supplier performance

Project portfolio management

Can-do attitude

Regulatory awareness

Education

CIPS qualification or studying towards

Job description

Anglian Water is recruiting a Procurement Specialist to lead strategic sourcing for the Programme Development team, shaping procurement plans for major capital projects such as the AWRC and desalination schemes.

This role demands strong negotiation and stakeholder management to drive cost reduction, consolidate spend, run RFI/RFP tendering, and deliver value-enhancing agreements, with hybrid working and a Peterborough base.