Procurement Specialist

3 days ago

Durham, Durham, United Kingdom Northumbrian Water Full time

About the Role

We are seeking a skilled Procurement Specialist to join our Capital team in procurement. The successful candidate will support the category management team on all key aspects of the strategic sourcing process for a range of procurement activities across pre-agreed categories of spend, building relationships and influencing.

Using both tactical and strategic approaches to sourcing and negotiation, the Procurement Specialist will bring challenge, new ideas, and solutions to the business. They will help the business think differently and seek new opportunities and innovations from the marketplace.

Our team currently works a hybrid model, which is a mix of working from any NWL office as required and the rest of the time at home.

About You

We are looking for a candidate with proven negotiation skills, commerciality, and problem-solving techniques, who is passionate about delivering an excellent service to all service users.

The successful candidate will demonstrate the ability to build key relationships across our team and the wider business, utilising excellent interpersonal skills (including stakeholder management) blended with verbal and written communication skills.

Previous experience is not essential, but an appreciation of the procurement processes, experience in a capital infrastructure environment, or experience of working with procurement as a stakeholder would be an advantage.

About Us

Here at Northumbrian Water, we strive to make Northumbrian Water Group (NWG) a Great Place to Work, for all. We embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity and encourage you to bring your full self to work. As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to having a diverse community represented across our business.

We're aware that not everyone will have every skill listed in the job description, and that female candidates are less likely to apply if they don't have the full range of skills, however if you have some of the skills listed, we'd encourage you to apply.

NWG at a Glance

Our purpose at NWG is caring for the essential needs of our communities and environment, now and for generations to come. We do this by providing reliable and affordable water and wastewater services for our customers.

We make a positive difference by operating efficiently and investing prudently, to maintain a sustainable and resilient business.

Our Benefits

We're a Great Place to Work because of the amazing people who work for us, and to say thank you we offer a range of benefits to colleagues.

Benefits to include, here's just a few of them:

  • Enhanced maternity pay
  • Enhanced annual leave with additional special leave for Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve
  • Company pension scheme
  • Digital GP
  • Award-winning wellbeing website
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Life assurance
  • Qualification loans
  • Professional subscription
  • Buy and sell annual leave
  • Discounts and cashback offers

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