Position: Procurement Manager

Location: Cambridgeshire

Salary Guide: £65,000 - £75,000 (Plus Car/Allowance and Package)

The Role:

Our client is a Tier 1 design and build engineering contractor operating predominately in the water industry, who are delivering a significant proportion of Anglian Water's programme of clean and wastewater infrastructure and non-infrastructure projects.

They are recruiting a Procurement Manager for a new, modern, low carbon flagship wastewater project. Based in the Peterborough & Cambridge area, you will ensure the Procurement team is suitably managed to deliver the requirements of engineering and construction delivery by supporting team members to provide the highest standards of work.

You will be responsible for the procurement team and the supply chain performance and ensuring all processes and procedures are followed whilst coaching and mentoring junior and less experienced members of the team. By collaborating with key stakeholders and assist the multi-disciplinary project teams you'll play a key role in ensuring the project solution is providing best value for business through being fit for purpose and completed on time, to budget, and to the correct quality.

Key responsibilities:

Procurement Management: Collaborate with the project team to acquire upcoming project milestones and design review dates. Regularly report to the Commercial and Performance Lead and Project Management as well as managing a team and evaluating economic challenges.

Commercial: Ensure and manage that all orders are as per the framework agreement and monitoring that all non-framework engagement is competitively tendered to obtain best values.

Collaboration/ stakeholder management: Work effectively as a multi-discipline team with internal and external stakeholders.

People/team development: Provide clear, visible and consistent leadership where a developing and supportive culture is created for team members to enhance their skill set which in turn will enhance the team's performance.

Transformation: Lead a culture than promotes the team to try new things and deliberately deliver differently by engaging with internal and external groups

Skills, Experience and Qualifications:

• MCIP / CMI qualification
• Degree in business or procurement related subjects
• Good working knowledge of NEC contracting
• Experience of managing multiple stakeholder groups - internal and external to the organisation
• Experience of working in commercially challenging environment
• Supplier development
• Significant customer facing experience
• An experienced manager of people and teams, developing others, and managing staff welfare
• Strong interpersonal skills, with an ability to understand the needs and views of others and adapt own approach
• Organised - able to organise own and teams' workload, with an ability to proactively plan
• Sound judgement and decision making
• An integrator & influencer
• Ability to work on own initiative and to agreed timescales
• Strong and clear communication style

Package includes:

• A competitive salary
• Car/car allowance
• 25 days holiday + Bank Holidays (with an additional 5 days available to buy)
• Contribution Pension scheme
• Life Assurance
• Health Insurance
• Private medical Insurance
• And many more benefits including - cycle to work scheme, discounts and savings Hub, kids pass etc.