Senior Procurement Programme Manager

Worthing, England, United Kingdom

12/20/2024

Closing Date

2025-01-06

Job Title: Senior Procurement Programme Manager

Location: Durrington, West Sussex (Hybrid, 2 days a week)

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: 37 hours per week

Salary: £competitive

There has never been a better time to join our organisation as we build towards a greener future, tackling climate change, minimising our environmental impact and reducing our carbon footprint!

Job Overview

Southern Water’s Procurement Services discipline delivers effective governance, reporting, analytics, insights, sustainability, capability development and compliance to support the efficient and ongoing enhancement of the Procurement Function operation. This person will be focused on driving procurement excellence across the Procurement function and wider Southern Water business; they will be accountable for all Companywide communication and business engagement activity as well as the key deliverables of company and Procurement Transformation programmes.

• Deliver enduring strategic and tactical change across the Procurement function, support a demand management approach to provide efficient planning and forecasting across the Procurement function.
• Coordinate all Procurement Communications being published within Southern Water, on the Homepage or the Hub. Own the Procurement Homepage and its updates. Coordinate, edit and publish any supply chain wide communications
• Manage and develop Procurement’s Business Engagement Model, ensuring regular meetings are held with key senior stakeholders, chairing any Procurement related meetings and, working with the Analytics team, providing associated monthly dashboards.
  
  

About You

• You must have previous experience of working within a regulated business
• You will have excellent Programme and Project management skills
• You will have excellent communication skills – including verbal, written and presentation – using these to good effect to be able to influence and explain complex concepts in an understandable manner
• Have the ability to identify, evidence and improve straw man process, in the absence of formal documentation.
  
  

Package

Benefits

This role will be full time Monday to Friday with a hybrid approach to working between our Durrington office and home. We are offering a competitive salary depending on skills and experience as well as other benefits including:

• Company and performance-related bonus
• Generous pension with up to 11% company contribution
• Life assurance payment equal to four times your annual salary
• Health benefits through a Cash Plan
• Two paid community volunteering days a year
• 25 days annual holiday
• Occupational health service
• Stars Reward gateway offering discounts and savings on several products and experiences
• Study support may be available for job-related qualifications
• We offer competitive maternity leave and flexible return to work options
  
  

Join our Procurement team and see how far your career could progress with a company committed to career progression, training and development opportunities, our customers and the environment.

Does this opportunity excite you but you’re not 100% sure if you meet all the requirements for the role? Or are you concerned that ‘normal’ office hours aren’t possible given your personal circumstances? Whilst we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we’ll try to find a practical solution. So why not engage with us and find out more about this role?

Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, because delivering water for life is our core purpose. To achieve this, we need 24/7 support in place to resolve incidents quickly and efficiently. All our employees understand the importance of out-of-hours incident support – because when problems appear, fixing them is our top priority. That’s why our people join together and support when and however needed to make sure our customers get the service they deserve. Joining the Southern Water family means you’ll become part of our incident support team. During your interview, your manager will speak to you about any incident support rotas that apply to your position.

Privacy Statement

Please note: If you are an existing Southern Water employee, you will need to confirm within your application that your Manager is aware of your application.

All applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK. You will need to provide evidence of eligibility (e.g. a passport or long birth certificate and proof of NI) and current proof of address (dated within the last 3 months), will be required as part of the recruitment process. If you do not meet these criteria, your application will not be considered.