Buyer

3 weeks ago

Washington, United Kingdom Northumbrian WaterEssex & Suffolk Water Full time

**Buyer**:

- Salary £33,436 to £41,794- Location Washington/Homeworking**About the role**

**Buyer**

**Full Time - 37 hours per week**

**2 Year fixed term contract**

**Salary - £33,337 up to £41,672**

**Location - Washington, Tyne & Wear**

Want to join an award-winning team making a real difference to the people we serve?

Northumbrian Water’s 25th place ranking on the 2021 UK’s Best Workplaces follows a number of other recent awards, which have included being recognised as a Centre of Excellence for Wellbeing by the Great Place to Work Institute and being awarded Ambassador Status as part of the 2020 Better Health at Work Award assessment process, there’s never been a better time to come and test the waters at Northumbrian Water

What are we looking for? If you are a knowledgeable procurement practitioner with experience of working across a range of key categories of spend within a strategic sourcing framework approach, you have found the right advert

There has never been a better time to join the team as we embark on a major transformative journey, striving to progress from ‘good’ to ‘great’. Northumbrian Water have an amazing opportunity for an experienced procurement professional who is creative, analytically driven, and results focussed to join our outstanding team as a Buyer, if this sounds like you please read on

**About the role**

You’ll lead all key aspects of the strategic sourcing process for a range of procurement activities across pre agreed categories of spend with support, mentoring and guidance from our Category Managers. You will be custodian of critical category data and responsibility for generating reports and providing insight, interpretations, and recommendations into the data you are reporting on.

You’ll be conducting market research and horizon scanning to stay informed and up to date on industry trends, procurement innovations, specific category developments and new market entries, ensuring we are at the forefront of innovation.

You will be allocated a low value Category of spend and given training in category management as part of your role.

**About you**

You’ll have demonstrable experience in procurement technology tools, along with proven knowledge of digital procurement systems. As a team we utilise a range of procurement tools such as Ariba for sourcing, Achilles UVDB/Find a Tender Service for pre-qualification of vendors, Oracle iProcurement for P2P and Oracle BI for data reporting. Experience within these platforms, or similar, would be advantageous.

From a vocational perspective, ideally, we are looking for someone with procurement related qualifications (MCIPS/Degree for example) or equivalent experience working within a procurement setting.

**About us**

NWG (Northumbrian Water Group) provides water and sewerage services to 2.7 million people in the North East of England as Northumbrian Water, and water services to 1.5 million people in the South East of England as Essex & Suffolk Water.

We are proud to serve our customers and we're committed to delivering great service, putting our customers at the heart of everything we do.

**Our values**

Our values describe our main principles, qualities and attributes. They are the guiding principles which define who we are, what we do and how we do it. They make us different from our competitors and guide our decisions and actions to drive us towards our vision.

Our values are:
Results Driven
- We take responsibility for achieving excellent business results.

Ethical
- We are open and honest and meet our commitments with a responsible approach to the environment and our communities.

Customer Focused
- We aim to exceed the expectations of our internal and external customers.

Creative
- We continuously strive for innovative and better ways to deliver our business.

One Team
- We work together consistently, promoting co-operation, to achieve our corporate objectives.

**Colleague benefits**

We’re the great company we are because of you - our people. As our way of saying thanks, we offer you a wide range of benefits and discounts to take advantage of.

To find out more about our benefits, see our benefits booklet attached to this advert.

Eyecare

Discounted Medicals

Employee Assistance Programme

Cycle2work

Buying & selling annual leave

Long service awards

Salary sacrifice car scheme

Computer
Loans

Award winning wellbeing site

NWG savings scheme

Company pension scheme

Pre-retirement workshops

Life assurance

Christmas savings club

Discounts & cashback offers

Qualification loan

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