Senior Supplier Engagement Manager

Job Description

Salary: £65,000 - £75,000, depending on skills and experience

Full-time, with flexibility for part-time.

37 hours per week/permanent

Location: Peterborough and London - Hybrid Working 2-3 days per week in Peterborough office, with attendance in London as required.

Private health care

Double-matched pension

Virtual GP service for you and your household

Life assurance at 8 times salary

Shape the Future of Water Infrastructure

At Anglian Water, we’re building a sustainable future for our region. As our Senior Supplier Engagement Manager for the Reservoir Programme, you’ll lead the market engagement and supply chain strategy for one of the UK’s largest and most complex water infrastructure projects.

This is your opportunity to make a real impact by driving innovation, championing fairness, and building trusted relationships across the supply chain. You’ll ensure our supplier engagement is transparent, compliant, and aligned with our commercial and sustainability ambitions.

About the Role

• Design and deliver the market engagement strategy, ensuring alignment with procurement and commercial goals.
• Lead supplier and market engagement events, building robust supply-chain and capability heatmaps with ongoing market intelligence updates.
• Identify and address supply-chain constraints, risks, and opportunities, providing strategic insights to shape procurement routes.
• Ensure all engagement activity is transparent, fair, and compliant with the Procurement Act 2023.
• Oversee the supplier engagement portal, ensuring a compliant and user-friendly interface for all pre-tender interactions.
• Act as the senior interface between the market and the Reservoir Programme’s leadership, technical, commercial, and procurement teams.
• Lead and develop a high-performing supplier engagement team, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and collaboration.
• Champion Anglian Water’s sustainability, ESG, and social value commitments, maintaining full compliance with governance and regulatory requirements.
• Drive a culture of health and safety excellence, supporting a zero-accident environment.

About You

• Extensive experience in market engagement, supply-chain strategy, or procurement within infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of the Procurement Act 2023 and regulated procurement environments.
• Proven leadership experience managing multi-disciplinary teams.
• Demonstrable experience in market intelligence, supply-chain mapping, and risk analysis.
• Strategic thinking, exceptional communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Strong commercial awareness and the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
• CIPS, RICS, or equivalent professional membership (desirable).
• Experience in the water, utilities, or regulated infrastructure sectors (desirable).
• Experience with supplier portals, digital engagement platforms, or SRM systems (desirable).

As a valued employee, you’ll be entitled to:

• Personal private health care
• Life assurance (up to 8 x salary)
• Personal accident cover (up to 5 x salary)
• Double-matched pension (maximum 6% employee contribution)
• 26 days annual leave – rising with length of service and the ability to buy more
• Excellent family friendly policies, such as 26 weeks full pay for maternity / adoption leave, as well as 4 weeks paid paternity / partner leave. Opportunity for shared parental pay
• Bonus scheme
• Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle.

Inclusion at Anglian Water:

We value the representation & diversity within our communities. Inclusion is for every one and we are an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we’re committed to creating an environment where all our colleagues feel they belong.

Closing date: Monday 4th May

Join us and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of water infrastructure. Apply today to make a lasting impact!

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