Procurement Specialist

**Date**:2 Jan 2025

**Company**:DWR Cymru Cyfyngedig Welsh Water Plc

**City**:Newport

**Address**:Newport, Wales, GB, NP10 8FZ

**Job Requisition Number**
- 7161**Work Type**
- Temporary / 12 month FTC**Job Function**
- Procurement & Estates**Salary Range**
- £44,292.00 -£50,937.00**Base**
- Newport / HybridAbout the roleThe role demands a meticulous and considered approach to procurement, working within business guidelines and industry best practice to gather and analyse market intelligence, shape procurement strategies, deliver cost savings and sustainable outcomes, whilst ensuring measures are in place to manage commercial and contractual risk. You will do this by working collaboratively with colleagues across the business and effective utilisation of eProcurement systems and processes and systems.

**What you’ll be responsible for**

Contributing to the delivery of the Procurement team function within Welsh Water you will be undertaking a range of activities to support the delivery of procurement projects, and the monitoring and reporting of supplier and business spend across categories. This includes:

- Contribute to the development of procurement and category strategies designed to deliver cost and process efficiencies across areas within the category of professional and enabling services, and others as may be required.
- Execute procurements of moderate complexity, including regulated and non-regulated processes, using Welsh Water internal procedures and in accordance with delegation levels.
- Manage and support a defined stakeholder group and act as a procurement partner for designated business areas.
- Negotiate contractual agreements with suppliers to ensure added value, savings, total cost management, quality, risk management and surety of supply.
- Create added value opportunities for increased social and sustainable benefit in line with our sustainable supplier code.
- Contribute to the delivery of best practice procurement across the Welsh Water organisation.
- Report on category, supplier and business spend, internal customer engagement with procurement, and commercial risk.
- Utilise Welsh Water's eProcurement systems for procurement and supplier management.
- Use of robust data management practices to maintain high standards of data quality and integrity.

**Who you’ll work with**

**Internal**
- All levels of management involved with procurement within Welsh Water
- H&S Internal Team
- Procurement leadership team
- Suppliers and Business Managers
- Legal services

**External**
- Contractors and Suppliers at all tiers
- Cost Managers
- Legal representatives
- Panel Engineers

**About you**
- Experience of undertaking procurement processes for services
- Experience of working with eProcurement and purchase to pay systems and good data management skills, including data analysis and interpretation.
- Understanding of the procurement lifecycle, including sourcing, contract formation, purchasing and contract and supplier management
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Understanding of sustainable procurement practices is desirable

**Benefits**
- As well as a market competitive salary, 33 days annual leave (pro rata, including public holidays), we offer a range of employee benefits and rewards including:
- Variable pay schemes (your salary band will remain the same, but performance depending, you could receive an incremental within-band increase and a yearly incentive)
- Option to buy additional annual leave up to 5 days per year
- Enhanced employer pension contributions - Up to 11% employer contributions
- Free Mortgage Brokering Services
- Enhanced family friendly policies
- Gym and fitness discounts as well as high street shopping
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discount off all Welsh Water visitor attraction centres and gift shops
- Car-leasing scheme and free on-site parking at all sites
- Health CashBack scheme and access to an online GP service
- An employee assistance programme for employees and their immediate family
- Many more can be found here

Whilst also working for a not-for profit company that truly cares about earning the trust of customers everyday, and about looking after our beautiful environment

Please note, we may close this role sooner if required. We may also extend the original closing date depending on interest.

**Who we are**
- Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water keep 3 million people healthy each day with safe, reliable water, and take away wastewater to clean, before returning it safely to our beautiful rivers and seas.
- To be able to deliver high quality, essential services which help to protect the health of our customers, colleagues and our environment, we need the right people to deliver on our vision. This is achieved by living our core values and demonstrating the core behaviours that underpin them. The security of our people, assets and information is key to us, so we are looking for people who understand and comply with the company’s required security objective