Closing Date
2025-05-23
Job Title: Contract & Supplier Management Specialist
Location: Hybrid working between Falmer office (2-3 days pw) and home
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 37 hours per week, Monday - Friday
Salary: Up to £34,600
Job Overview
Our Business Plan 2025 to 2030 is our largest and most ambitious plan ever. The plan is the company’s largest ever, to enhance the health and wellbeing of our communities, protect and improve the environment and help to sustain the local economy.
The plan includes our largest ever Capital Build Programme and the Southern Water’s Supplier Engagement and Contract Management team plays a key role in delivery of supply chain strategy. raising the supply chain performance bar, fostering a collaborative supply chain network, enabling supplier innovation and continues improvement and ensuring supply chain partners have a vested interest in our business plans.
As a Contract & Supplier Management specialist you will support the team in delivering our Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) Framework, the structure approach we have developed to ensure we optimise the performance and relationships with our Capital Programme supply chain partners.
About You
Looking for someone who is outcome delivery focused and a passion to develop own capability. You will be someone who can demonstrate the desire to push the boundaries and seek opportunities to improves ways of working.
You will have some SRM experience, but a strong desire to desire to develop your SRM skills and career further. The successful candidate will have a real passion for SRM.
The role operates in a multidisciplinary environment, the successful candidate must be able to demonstrate an aptitude for building and maintaining relationships to become confident and trusted by stakeholders both internal and external. This will require strong inter-personal and communication skills and a strong problem-solving analytical mindset.
Package
This role will be full time Monday to Friday with a hybrid approach to working between our Falmer office and home.
We are offering a salary of up to £34,600 depending on skills and experience as well as other benefits including:
• Company and performance-related bonus
• Generous pension with up to 11% company contribution
• Life assurance payment equal to four times your annual salary
• Health benefits through a Cash Plan
• Two paid community volunteering days a year
• 25 days annual holiday
• Occupational health service
• Perkbox benefits offering discounts and savings on several products and experiences
• Study support may be available for job-related qualifications
• We offer competitive maternity leave and flexible return to work options
Join our Contract Management team and see how far your career could progress with a company committed to career progression, training and development opportunities, our customers and the environment.
Does this opportunity excite you but you’re not 100% sure if you meet all the requirements for the role? Or are you concerned that ‘normal’ office hours aren’t possible given your personal circumstances? Whilst we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we’ll try to find a practical solution. So why not engage with us and find out more about this role?
Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, because delivering water for life is our core purpose. To achieve this, we need 24/7 support in place to resolve incidents quickly and efficiently. All our employees understand the importance of out-of-hours incident support – because when problems appear, fixing them is our top priority. That’s why our people join together and support when and however needed to make sure our customers get the service they deserve. During your interview, your manager will speak to you about any incident support rotas that apply to your position.
Privacy Statement:
Please note: If you are an existing Southern Water employee, you will need to confirm within your application that your Manager is aware of your application.
All applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK. You will need to provide evidence of eligibility (e.g. a passport or long birth certificate and proof of NI) and current proof of address (dated within the last 3 months), will be required as part of the recruitment process. If you do not meet these criteria, your application will not be considered.