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Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive. We help our clients safeguard the water supply, improve environmental performance and manage demand for future generations. We enhance and extend asset life, ensuring compliance with water quality and environmental standards. We’re problem solvers with over 140 years of combined experience in engineering and infrastructure. This role will be within our Clean Water Capital Delivery Team - Our teams deliver various schemes from Mains Renewal, Diversions and PMVs all in aid of supporting the UU clean water network. The Subcontract Procurement Manager will report to the Head of Procurement and work within the Northern Commercial team, while collaborate closely with both divisional and project stakeholders. The role is central to overseeing subcontract procurement activities, ensuring alignment with organisational standards, and driving efficiency and cost management benefits. This includes managing supplier relationships, leading subcontract sourcing efforts, and ensuring compliance with procurement policies, standards, and ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) commitments.
Job Responsibility
Managing subcontract procurement activities, ensuring alignment with organisational standards, and driving efficiency and cost management benefits
Managing supplier relationships, leading subcontract sourcing efforts, and ensuring compliance with procurement policies, standards, and ESG commitments
Delivering subcontract savings and efficiency improvements while managing end-to-end competitive tendering (RFQs, ITTs)
Negotiating and awarding subcontracts in line with budgets, timelines, and compliance standards
Building strong supplier relationships, monitoring performance, and implementing corrective actions to ensure quality and continuity
Conducting structured tender evaluations, mitigating commercial and supply chain risks, and enhancing procurement processes and reporting
Collaborating with internal teams to align subcontract strategies with project needs
Ensuring compliance with organisational standards, supporting governance and ESG priorities, managing supplier onboarding, and analysing spend to provide actionable insights on performance, pipeline, and cost savings
Requirements
Proven experience in subcontract procurement, including NEC3 and NEC4 subcontract forms and bespoke client contracts
Expertise in scoping, tendering, evaluation, negotiation, and contract placement
Proficiency in procurement technologies (e.g., ERP systems) and MS Office tools, especially Excel
Strong organisational, data analysis, and communication skills
Ability to manage multiple deadlines and projects effectively
What we offer
Contributory pension scheme
Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
Employee assistance programme
My Rewards portal, access to 1000's of retail discounts
Life assurance
Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
Reward and recognition scheme
Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us
Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme
Health Care Cash Plan, giving you the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and physiotherapy and much more