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£40,000 - £45,000 Dependent Upon Experience
Redhill
SES Water is a local water company dedicated to providing high-quality water and exceptional service to our customers. With a rich history of serving the communities in the Southeast of England, we are committed to delivering a reliable and sustainable water supply, ensuring that our customers have access to safe and clean water every day.
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Procurement Business Partner
£40,000 - £45,000 Dependent Upon Experience
Redhill
SES Water is a local water company dedicated to providing high-quality water and exceptional service to our customers. With a rich history of serving the communities in the Southeast of England, we are committed to delivering a reliable and sustainable water supply, ensuring that our customers have access to safe and clean water every day.
A forward-thinking utility company, SES Water is driven by innovation and environmental responsibility. We continuously invest in cutting-edge technologies and sustainable practices to protect and preserve our precious water resources while meeting the evolving needs of our customers. We are looking for a Procurement Business Partner to join our team, playing a key role in refining procurement processes and managing supplier risk whilst upholding our values.
About The Role
You will have opportunity to develop and monitor strategies for allocated categories of spend to support purchasing requirements across the business area for the full procurement lifecycle including sourcing, contract management and supplier management.
This is a great opportunity for you demonstrate a strong commercial focus and drive efficiency to support the management of commercial risks and opportunities for the business.
What You'll Be Doing
* Procurement Business Partnering: Advise and challenge senior stakeholders on procurement planning, ensuring compliance, accountability, and risk-aware decision-making across operational and capital spend.
* Category & Commercial Strategy: Own and deliver long-term procurement strategies for high-value/risk categories, providing expert market insights and aligning plans with strategic business goals.
* Sourcing & Contracting: Lead the end-to-end sourcing process using best practice tools, from contract design and tendering to negotiation and award recommendations, ensuring legal, regulatory, and commercial compliance.
* Contract & Supplier Management: Monitor and manage supplier performance, conduct due diligence, lead contract reviews, and drive continuous improvement through data-driven KPIs and stakeholder feedback.
* Commercial Support for Projects: Provide analytical and commercial input into key business decisions and investment cases, including risk modelling and evaluation of strategic procurement projects.
* Process Improvement & Governance: Ensure procurement processes align with corporate objectives, health & safety, and environmental standards, while championing continuous improvement and efficiency.
* Collaboration & Knowledge Sharing: Support team resilience through cross-coverage, align internal processes, and share expertise to build capability across the Procurement team and stakeholders.
What We're Looking For
* Strong commercial and strategic mind-set; understanding the role of Procurement in delivering corporate goals and managing risk
* Experience delivering efficiency/cost savings/value for money within a supply chain management function
* Excellent verbal communication skills at all levels and the ability to recognise, plan and deliver business change.
* Proven strong negotiation and client/supply chain management experience; managing cost and value drivers effectively
* Excellent stakeholder management skills with a proven ability to communicate, support and challenge people across different business functions, backgrounds and all levels of seniority.
* Working knowledge of UK/EU Procurement Regulations and different forms of contracts and commercial models.
* A CIPS qualification (or working towards) would also be highly desirable
* Knowledge of ERP systems SRM sourcing and e-procurement tools
What's In It For You?
We offer a range of benefits for your personal and financial wellbeing, including.
* Generous holiday allowance plus bank holidays
* A discretionary bonus
* Competitive contributory pension
* Share-save scheme
* Various health benefits
* Wellbeing support programmes
* A range of Group Discounts
* Cycle to Work Scheme
* Financial support services
* And plenty more!
Be yourself, we like it that way. Together, we will build a culture of belonging, where inclusion is instinctive. Diversity is our strength and a reflection of our communities. We care, we value everyone, we celebrate uniqueness.
Our core values which are essential to our success are:
Be Rock Solid- Build trust and be trusted. Be the one we all look to and can depend on.
Be You- We want you to bring your best everyday. Be yourself and make your mark in your individual way.
Be the Future- Embrace change. Drive Progress. Own the challenge.
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Nice-to-have skills
* Risk Management
* Negotiation
* Redhill, England
Work experience
* Other Sales
Languages
* English
Seniority level
* Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Employment type
Full-time
Job function
* Job function
Business Development and Sales
* Industries
Technology, Information and Internet
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