WHAT WE DO:

Everyone has an idea of what a water company does. Here in Yorkshire, we make sure that over 5.4 million people living in the region and the millions of people who visit our region each year, can rely on our services, and have clean and safe drinking water on tap and that their wastewater is taken away. But for us, it’s so much more than this.
We look after communities, protect the environment, and plan to look after Yorkshire’s water, today, tomorrow 24/7, 365 days a year. We provide essential water and wastewater services to every corner of the Yorkshire region, and play a key role in the region’s health, wellbeing, and prosperity.
New environmental legislation, unprecedented levels of investment and changing expectations from customers means that this is an exciting time to discover opportunities within the water industry. The Commercial - Operations are a key part of how we plan to meet the changing expectations of customers and regulators.
The Senior Buyer is responsible for supporting the development and delivery of category specific strategies, leading procurement and below threshold projects, contract implementation and lifecycle through exit to the next iteration.
The role holder will be key part of a Commercial – Operations Team leading in the development and delivery of compliant sourcing pipeline. They will be skilled in the use of a broad set of analytical tools and able to identify current and future business opportunities based on their ability to analyse data from multiple sources. The role holder will collaborate with business stakeholders and lead the engagement to deliver industry leading procurement strategies.

WHAT SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS YOU WILL NEED:

• Commercial acumen - knowledge and practical application from water, construction or other relevant sectors to deliver savings targets, quality services and effective contract delivery.
• Negotiation – Proven ability to negotiate effectively and resolve disputes efficiently throughout the contract lifecycle
• Sourcing – development and ongoing management of procurement strategies, managing the portfolio of simple & complex sourcing strategies, procurement processes and compliance with legislative and governance requirements.
• Stakeholder management – ability to lead engagement with different business leads to understand needs to develop suitable commercial approaches that can achieve business plan targets.
• Supplier management – application of supplier & vendor management, performance management and contract segmentation & treatment.
• Procurement – to demonstrate a good understanding and application of relevant legislation and compliance in the procurement process.

THERE ARE MULTIPLE ROLES AVAILABLE ACROSS DIFFERENT DIRECT AND INDIRECT CATEGORIES:

• FM & Energy
• Professional Services
• IT & OT
• Network (Wastewater and Clean Water)
• Operational Services
• Operational Goods and Maintenance