Location
Hybrid working. Camelford House, Albert Embankment, London SE1 7TP.

Hours
Full-time Monday to Friday

Salary
Up to £65,000 depending on experience

About the Role
We have an exciting opportunity for a Procurement Manager to join Thames Water and play a key role in delivering major strategic regional water resource solutions (SROs). These pioneering projects are vital to safeguarding long-term water supply for our customers, protecting the environment, and shaping the future of water resources across the South East. You will be part of a team working on some of the most complex and high-profile schemes in the industry, many delivered in collaboration with multiple water companies.

As our Procurement Manager, you will support the Procurement & Supplier Management Team on major capital infrastructure projects. Your responsibilities will include developing sourcing strategies for large-scale capital projects and assets, creating innovative sourcing approaches that deliver best value and challenge existing ways of working, and engaging with the external market to build strategic supplier partnerships. You will lead multi-disciplinary teams through procurement activities, ensuring stakeholder alignment, and embed sustainability, innovation, collaboration, health & safety, and risk management into all procurement initiatives.

You will ensure procurement processes comply with internal policies and the Procurement Act 2023, deliver procurement activity at pace across multiple high-value, complex projects, and drive competitive procurement to secure cost savings and operational efficiencies. Supporting forecasting and financial planning linked to procurement activity, producing compelling documentation, presenting effectively at all levels internally and externally, leading complex negotiations, and challenging and improving procurement processes as the regulatory environment evolves will also be key parts of your role.

Experience
- Demonstrable experience in infrastructure, construction, commercial, procurement or contract management roles.
- Experience sourcing design, professional services and infrastructure delivery contracts.
- Strong understanding of standard industry contract forms, particularly NEC4; knowledge of IChemE and/or FIDIC is beneficial.
- Ability to translate engineering needs into commercial drivers, incentives and contractual arrangements is an advantage.
- Understanding of the implications of the Procurement Act 2023.
- Strong stakeholder engagement experience within complex, multi-site environments.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Confident working independently, making informed decisions and managing competing priorities.
- Keen analytical mindset with strong Excel and PowerPoint skills.
- Proactive, resilient and a role model for collaborative team behaviours.

About you
You are proactive, resilient and demonstrate collaborative team behaviours. You have strong stakeholder engagement skills and are confident working independently while managing competing priorities. You possess excellent communication skills and a keen analytical mindset.

Qualifications
- Degree-level commercial or procurement education (or equivalent), e.g., RICS, IACCM, CIPS is desirable.
- Understanding of Ofwat’s regulatory models and commercial drivers is a plus.
- Experience in strategic sourcing within multi-stakeholder and multi-site environments (3–5 years) is advantageous.