Category Manager

About the @one Alliance

The Anglian Water @one Alliance is a totally collaborative organisation made up of eight partner companies (Anglian Water, SWECO, Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, MMB, MWH Treatment, and Skanska) and an 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.

With such an exciting portfolio of projects planned for AMP8 to keep the water flowing across the region, our ability to manage our work and outperform against our customer’s expectations will come under greater scrutiny.

We need aspiring driven talent to help us achieve our ambitious targets, are you ready to join us as we prepare to deliver the most creative and innovative AMP we have ever seen?

About Sweco

Transforming society together, we're planning and designing sustainable communities and cities of the future.

Solving the great societal challenges of our time is more relevant, demanding and inspiring than ever before. At Sweco, we bring together experts with different perspectives and skills to develop solutions that address the challenges of urbanisation, harness the positive power of digitalisation and make societies more sustainable.

We offer our clients a combination of global expertise and local presence, adapted to their business and reality. Our ambition is to be our clients’ most relevant partner, working together to help them solve their challenges, today and into the future.

To ensure we support our objectives of collaboration across the business whilst providing our workforce with the agility to achieve a healthy work/ life balance, we are asking our employees to have office or site presence on an average of three days a week.

What will you be doing as our new Category Manager?

Reporting to the Head of Procurement, your role is to support and develop the Portfolio and procurement strategies aligned to the business Outcomes. This strategic role will be based on the development and the outperformance of our strategic partners and non- framework supply chain during the execution of both project and portfolio requirements.

The overall challenge of this role is to outperform against the Procurement “Whitebook” initiative by driving efficiencies through strong negotiation, leadership, and supply chain management.

Key responsibilities:

• Develop, Monitor and implement sourcing agreement with Anglian Water.

• Aggregate demand based on the business needs whilst driving “Best for Task” and innovation through the supply chain.

• Develop and implement SMART objectives/ KPM’s with our supply chain partners to support Delivery on Time and mitigate any potential risks to the business.

• Develop extensive knowledge of the markets in which your category operates within and appropriately monitor market risks (financial and capacity.)

• Implement regular 360 review meetings with all stakeholders to evaluate current performance across the Alliance and assess where value added initiatives can be implemented from within the supply chain.

• Engage and support the solution team to ensure the right supply chain is available to outperform against the delivery and procurement strategy.

• Ensure all commercial requirements are submitted and audited to maximse on our overall commercial performance within the Alliance.

• Ensure SHEA processes and procedure s are implements throughout all deliverables.

A little bit about your skills, experience and behaviours.

To be considered for this super Procurement career opportunity, you’ll hold a CIPS Professional standard and membership (or equivalent) and be experienced in a senior procurement/ sourcing role.

With the ability to handle a wide- range of demanding stakeholders, you’ll be resourceful and persuasive as you embrace collaboration and innovation to meet pressurised deadlines. You’ll be able to demonstrate solid leadership skills and champion integrity and accountability amongst the team. You’ll work with a transparent and commercial outlook with the customer at the heart of all your activities and be able to operate at a strategic level and bring this to life operationally.

If the opportunity to further your Procurement career with an industry- leading Alliance appeals as you add a wealth of exposure and skills to your professional profile, please apply today

@OneAlliance vision

A collaborative alliance, driving change. Empowering us to set global benchmarks and building a better environment for our customers. We strive to:

Empower our people; Delight our Customers; Embrace digital transformation; Deliver brilliance.

@OneAlliance Values

To bring environmental and social prosperity to the region we serve through our commitment to Love Every Drop we:

Build trust; Do the right thing; Are always exploring

The Anglian Water @one Alliance. Eight partners, endless opportunities.

Let’s transform society together at Sweco.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

It’s important to us that that all our colleagues thrive at work - we strive to have a friendly and inclusive culture which respects the contribution individuals can bring to Sweco. We aim to promote equality, inclusivity and diversity for everyone.

Here at Sweco we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity.

We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant to ensure those who serve or have served, and their families, are treated fairly. To find out more The Armed Forces Covenant - Our Commitments | Sweco UK.

We are also proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer, and will interview applicants covered by the Equality Act 2010 that opt into the guaranteed interview scheme on the application form and meet the minimum criteria for the role.

If I have a disability, can I get help (e.g. “reasonable adjustments”) with the application process?

If you’re an applicant with a disability that requires a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process or are limited in the ability or unable to use the online application system and need an alternative method for applying, please contact GB_Function-HR-Resourcing@sweco.co.uk for assistance.

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Please note: we reserve the right to close vacancies before the advertised closing date.

Sweco UK&I have an internal resourcing team who are responsible for all recruiting activity. We have a Preferred Supplier List of trusted agencies who we work with on those “hard to fill” roles.

We have defined processes for recruitment applications and it is company policy not to accept speculative CVs. Any speculative CVs received into the business (whether to a manager or member of the resourcing team) will become the property of Sweco and the agency will not be eligible for an introductory fee.

Our Preferred Supplier List was reviewed in December 2023 and we are not looking to add any additional agencies. We’ll be reviewing the PSL again at the end of 2024 and non-compliance with the above statements could be detrimental to you having the opportunity to be included.

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