Here within the @one Alliance, we are a totally collaborative organisation made up of our seven partner companies (Anglian Water, Balfour Beatty, Barhale, MMB, MWH Treatment, Skanska and SWECO) and our extended supply chain, delivering over half of Anglian Water’s capital investment programme.
We are gearing up for our most exciting and challenging Asset Management Period yet, known as AMP8, this will see us deliver a programme of work larger than we’ve ever delivered before. We’ll be embarking on a new kind of project delivery focusing on nature-based solutions like wetlands and urban drainage schemes.
We are driving change, empowering us to set global benchmarks and build a better environment, with the opportunity to offer enhanced growth and development to our workforce. We’re looking to build on our existing teams with an environment built for career progression.
Essential to us outperforming against our Procurement objectives and managing the effective and timely procurement of goods and services across the Alliance, we are looking for a Senior Buyer to join the team!
What you will be doing as our new Senior Buyer?
As our new Senior Buyer, you’ll implement the procurement deliverables agreed upon from the Portfolio strategies by challenging and negotiating long-term and short-term transactions with framework and non-framework partners.
The overall aim for this role is to be truly integrated within the project teams, you’ll ensure all deliverables are achieved via implementing and supporting the ECI engagement of our strategic partners during the early stages of a project.
You’ll have a fantastic opportunity to make a lasting and positive impact across the @one Alliance.
Responsibilities:
- Aggregate demand across Water Recycling and Water programme areas and ensure all relevant information to support the procurement of goods and services has been included.
- Undertake ethical and robust methods to promote the correct selection of supply chain partners.
- Support Delivery on Time and manage and escalate any potential risks to the business.
- Ensure our Health & Safety processes and deliverables are implemented throughout the life cycle of each project.
- Issuing performance scorecards across the supply chain and providing feedback to the project teams.
- Ensure all deliverables are received within the agreed time frames (programme, signed contracts and site documentation).
- Assess and implement efficiencies via value-added approaches from within the Supply Chain.
- Undertake proactive stakeholder management; work in an approachable manner to provide updates, analysis, reports, and innovation to increase knowledge share and confidence.
A little bit about your skills, experience, and behaviours….
With experience in a senior Procurement/ Sourcing role, you’ll demonstrate a track record of excellent stakeholder management across a wide- range of demanding audiences. Possessing self-motivation and accountability in abundance, you’ll be an experienced negotiator and be able to professionally challenge whilst presenting transparent and honest facts and information.
With strong experience in driving performance with the supply chain, you’ll truly embrace collaboration and understand how a strong team ethic can deliver positive results. Working with a high degree of integrity and the customer’s best interest at heart during all activities, you’ll be able to juggle a hectic yet rewarding workload to deliver Portfolio strategies we can be proud of.
If you are looking for the next step in your Procurement career whilst making this role your own, please apply today!
Caring and investing in you
Our values have been embedded at Barhale for over 40 years and they are our guiding principle regarding how we care and invest in people. Our values are our commitment to being a people-centric company.
As Gold Investors in People, we are committed to a high standard of people practices, creating an inclusive environment, and ensuring cultural alignment to business strategy, ethos and philosophies.
From the moment you join us, your well-being and career aspirations will be supported by.
- Competitive salary
- Company Pension
- Life Assurance
- Private Medical
- 25 days annual leave in addition to 8 public bank holidays and loyalty days
- 8 hours volunteering
- Employee Assistance Programme to support your mental, physiological and financial well-being.
- Flexible benefits via salary sacrifice
- Company car/green car scheme/car allowance/Van (dependent on experience)
- Leadership & management training and coaching
- Regular line management engagement and appraisal to support your career progression.
- Development supported by internal and externally delivered training
- Flexible working arrangements
- Annual salary review
- Continuous service awards