Procurement Business Partner

We are seeking a Procurement Business Partner to join our Commercial team at NWS!

As a Procurement Business Partner you will manage effective and efficient, end to end procurement projects that support NWS making good business decisions and deliver NWS's contractual arrangements as a limited company, whilst ensuring compliance with public expenditure controls.

You will responsible for providing authoritative advice to the NWS business on strategic and operational commercial matters in support of the implementation of the GDF programme as well as providing support the development of the supply chain, and ensure that NWS has suitable tracking and intelligence systems in place to effectively manage its strategic suppliers.

● Manage several categories of indirect expenditure across NWS as allocated by the Head of Commercial and Procurement.

● Manage a diverse range of end-to-end procurement projects from across all indirect categories in order to maximise value for money, according to NWS's procurement policy, the Public Contracts Regulations and professional good procurement practice.

● Influence a wide range of internal and external stakeholders up to Director level, including acting as a business partner to a defined directorate, working as a critical friend to help them solve problems and realise opportunities for NWS while ensuring compliance with the procurement policy.

● Utilise the support of the Procurement Analyst to analyse spend and contract data to inform the strategy for procuring services or goods or solving a business need in another way (such as undertaking using internal resource, hiring staff or making a grant). This will involve detailed and advanced use of Excel day-to-day, in order to analyse and maintain spreadsheets of NWS's spend and contracts.

● Develop and analyse procurement management information to improve business intelligence and inform commercial decisions and business plans made at all levels within the organisation. This will involve managing procurement systems (currently CTM e-Sourcing system, Atamis spend management system, and a series of detailed spreadsheets including our combined contracts register and pipeline) to provide key performance information on a regular basis and occasionally preparing reports or presentations on management information.

● Facilitate meetings with internal and external stakeholders, such as clarification of scope or market engagement events with suppliers or meeting with internal stakeholders to understand their needs or update them on progress.

● Publish procurement opportunities, including on Contracts Finder and the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU).

● Authorise financial information including Purchase Orders and new suppliers.

● Other duties as may be required to support the effective operation of NWS Business Services.



Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Essential

• Member of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply (MCIPS), part-qualified or similar professional certification (with potential to sponsor further study)


• Degree or equivalent academic qualifications


• Excellent understanding of how to run end to end procurement projects


• Prioritising - with support - a challenging workload of competing priorities


• Excellent written and verbal English


• Advanced use of Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint including detailed formatting of formal contract documents in Word


• Ability to quickly learn and work with new processes and IT systems


• Good stakeholder management skills with the ability to present and discuss information professionally and tease information out of people


• Able to understand, explain and apply NWS's procurement process (implementing the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and procurement good practice) with a wide range of stakeholders.


• Previous experience of managing indirect procurement projects


• Experience working in a procurement team

For employees on RWM T&Cs, this role is a 5-4.

Who are we?

Simply put, our job is to secure a safer future for us all. We do this by managing and disposing of the UK's nuclear radioactive waste safely and securely for generations to come. We have a critical role in the biggest multi-decade clean-up project in Europe. As part of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) group, we provide permanent answers for nuclear waste.

Nuclear Waste Services builds on the work delivered at the Low-Level Waste Repository (LLWR) site and the Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) programme, maintaining these key activities whilst also adding further essential services for customers in the nuclear energy, defence, industrial, medical, and research sectors. Maintaining and developing this knowledge and experience is key to securing and developing our unique nuclear waste capabilities for the UK and the rest of the world

If you join Nuclear Waste Services, you'll be part of a team that brings together some of the most brilliant minds from around the UK, working across many specialisms - scientific, engineering, safety, operations, commercial, community engagement, and regulatory - to name a few.

We want Nuclear Waste Services to be a great place​ to work where people are respected, included and can perform at their best. We do this by living our Nuclear Waste Services values;
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We are action orientated ​​​​​​​- We deliver for our customers, partners, and people safely & securely.

We are collaborative and inclusive - We have greater success when we work together.

We are ambitious - We are problem solvers who embrace and act upon new challenges.​​​​​

We act with integrity - We are trusted to build a safe, secure and sustainable future

What's in it for you?

• On appointment to NWS you will receive 25.5 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and you can accrue up to 13 extra days leave


• Rewarding performance (annual bonus scheme)


• We offer a generous pension scheme through CNNP


• learning and development support


• payment of relevant annual professional subscriptions


• Employee Assistance Programme


• Financial advice assistance


• Flexible working


• Extended family-friendly policies


• Cycle to work scheme


• We welcome flexible and agile working practices


• Flexible working requests can be submitted from day 1 of employment

Equal Opportunities

We value the unique differences that each of our colleagues bring to work every day and are committed to creating an environment where everyone feels respected, included and able to perform at their best. At Nuclear Waste Service we are committed to creating a workplace that is diverse and inclusive. We value the diversity of our people and actively seek to have a workforce that represents the rich diversity of the communities we support. Currently we are underrepresented in some areas, and would particularly welcome applicants from Women, Black, Asian and Ethnic Minorities, LGBTQ+ and candidates who have a disability.

In promoting equal opportunities, Nuclear Waste Service welcomes applications from all sections of the community. We select people according to their abilities and our needs. As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet all of the essential criteria for the vacancy.

Please note: Nuclear Waste Services reserves the right to close the vacancy early.

If you have any queries or would like to discuss this role, please email