Procurement Manager
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Job Description
Competitive salary salary depending on skills and experience
Permanent
Full time 37 hours
Home working and Peterborough Office (23 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 youll be entitled to:
Personal private health care
26 days annual leave rising with length of service
Flexible working
Competitive pension scheme Anglian Water doublematches 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 selfmotivated and selfassured Procurement Professional with a sharp mind and who thrives in a fastpaced environment.
Closing date: 5th June 2025
Interviews: Week Commencing 16th June 2025
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Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
