Senior Buyer

The Anglian Water Strategic Pipeline Alliance (SPA) project currently involves the planning, design and construction of circa 320km of new strategic, large diameter, clean water interconnector pipelines and associated infrastructure across Anglian Water’s region. The SPA Alliance is also taking on responsibility for the future interconnector pipelines, a further 260km of strategic interconnector pipelines and associated infrastructure. 

Your role, as Senior Buyer) Ecosystem Manager is to develop and maintain the Procurement Schedule to ensure products / services are delivered to site on time. You will need to be able to work with and lead a team of other professionals (Design, Commercial, Delivery) to achieve this.

You will be responsible for ensuring value for money and building relationships with our Ecosystem Partners. This will be through conducting mini competitions, applying Anglian Water allocation methodologies or conducting new procurement processes. Where appropriate you will need to ensure that the products purchase comply with DWI requirements. 

The role will be flexible/hybrid work from Peterborough office, site offices and home

At Costain, we believe diverse perspectives drive innovation. If you’re passionate about making a positive impact and think you can bring value to our team, we’d love to hear from you even if you don’t tick every box. Your unique skills and experiences could be exactly what we need. 

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Responsibilities

• Take ownership of your portfolio of work to deliver sourcing events to time and to deliver maximum value to the business.
• Appoint suppliers following an agreed sourcing methodology suitable for the value or complexity of the spend and/or requirement.
• Lead on commercial negotiations 
• Ensure relevant systems are used and updated to ensure an auditable process and efficient reporting to the business.
• Provide advice and support to the business to understand and deliver their requirements.
• Notify the relevant manager of any spend trends which may need further investigation.
• Ensure sustainable procurement risks are understood and managed for all projects
• Negotiate with suppliers on a “spot buy” basis where appropriate.
• Comply with SPA Procurement Policy and processes.

• Ensure your programme of work supports the Purchase to Pay process through effective procurement.

• Develop wider knowledge of products and wider supply chain.

• Ensure 360 performance feedback is completed for your Ecosystem Partners and quarterly meetings held.

• Understand micro and macro-economic impacts on your supply chain and how to mitigate risk.

• Liaise with other Anglian Water Alliances to manage resource and capacity across the shared supply chain.

• Ensure any requisitions raised comply with the SPA procurement policy and can accurately be converted into a SAP PO.

• Assist the P2P Team with delivery and payment queries as required.

• Support the Delivery Teams with one off purchases as required.

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

Essestial

• Operational Procurement

• Excellent stakeholder management and negotiation skills.

• Influencing skills

• Commercial acumen – designing new commercial models and pricing

• Effectively integrating suppliers such that the ecosystem delivers out-performance, brings forward opportunities for innovation to enhance the delivery of SPA outcomes.

• Supplier capability development

• Working to tight deliverables

• Can do attitude

• Attention to detail

 Desirable

• Defining the nature of relationship SPA establishes with suppliers

• Package procurement/ Category strategy

• Procurement within the Water, Infrastructure or Construction Industry

Desirable

• CIPS Professional standard and membership or equivalent
• Educated to degree level