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Contract: PermanentSalary: Offering up to £75,000 per annumReporting to the Capital Procurement Business Partner, this role will be expected to ensure compliance with Thames Water supply chain objectives and enhancing value by challenging business as usual ways of works and developing innovative supply chain strategies. As an experienced Procurement resource, this role will be accountable for delivery of category and supplier development plans, whilst ensuring that these are delivered in compliance with Procurement Act 2023 (Utilities) and Thames Water Policies and Procedures. What you’ll be doing as a Capital Supplier Relationship Manager • Leading on supply chain engagementwith Thames Water’s Capital and Construction supply chain- including Performance and Strategic Business Reviews, • Be seen by the business as the Procurement /Commercial expert for the category with market knowledge and insight not seen elsewhere, • Build strategic and innovative category plans and own the contract improvement opportunity register for category area, • Draft, negotiate and obtain agreement to commercial contracts ensuring that operational and commercial risks to business are fully understood and minimised, • Build collaborative, high-performing supplier relationships that support delivery, innovation, and continuous improvement, • Engage proactively with internal stakeholders to shape the category approach, business needs, spend and suppliers, • Support the delivery of a risk management plan/strategy., • Identify and manage category and supplier level risks and escalating to the Business Partner where appropriate, • Ensure timely and accurate reporting on thesourcingsupply chainprojects using available reporting tools, • Full UK driving licence, • Extensive experience of supplier relationship management, including developing long-term relationships, • Engaging with internal stakeholders and the supply chain, • Experience of managing multi-disciplinary project teams, • Experience in project and/or supplier relationship management,with Capital and/or Construction Supply Chains, • Track record of delivery value for money, cost efficiency and procurement innovation, • Proven ability to manage external relationships and negotiate with suppliers Additional skills and experiences would be great to have:, • People Management skills, • Skilled in supplier negotiations and dispute resolution, • Familiarity with Procurement Act 2023 (Utilities) What’s in it for you?, • Competitive salary of up to £75, 000 per annum depending on experience, • Annual Leave- 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service (plus bank holidays), • Performance-related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets, • Car allowance, • Generous Pension Scheme through AON

What you’ll be doing as a Capital Supplier Relationship Manager. Build collaborative, high-performing supplier relationships that support delivery, innovation, and continuous improvement. Engage proactively with internal stakeholders to shape the category approach, business needs, spend and suppli

Job Title: Senior Discovery and Configuration Manager Location: Reading- 3 Days a week Job Type: 12 Months Fixed Term Role purpose The Configuration Management team are responsible for ensuring that the data in the CLIENT Configuration Management Databases (CMDB) acts as a single source of truth for all CLIENT configuration data because it is maintained, modelled and governed. The role is responsible for developing the strategy for Discovery and Configuration Management along with the end-to-end Configuration Management Process at both high and low levels where appropriate. The role also provides subject matter expertise to support project teams, architects and designers as well as maintaining and advising on definition/dictionaries of data held within the CMDB. The Discovery and Configuration Manager is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Discovery and Configuration Management team, ensuring processes are being correctly followed, that data quality is being measured and maintained/improved. The role is responsible for supporting the delivery of projects and programs, ensuring the seamless transition of deliveries into the CLIENT Configuration Management estate in a controlled manner, that aligns with our configuration management principles for service data modelling and data quality whilst protecting existing services and assisting the business to understand demarcation of our configuration management processes. The Discovery and Configuration Manager is the Business Owner of the Discovery application and is responsible for the support, maintenance, and development of the application. Management, coaching and development of the Discovery and Configuration team is also a part of this role, along with being an advocate of configuration management, data quality and automation. The Discovery and Configuration Manager is responsible for leading the delivery of our Audit commitments (both internal and external) ensuring that our reporting obligations are delivered and completing any existing or new observations required to resolve/maintain compliance. The role is responsible for identifying and managing relationships with key stakeholders, suppliers, and vendors, working to act as an educator and advocate of the Discovery and Configuration Management processes. Key responsibilities & accountabilities Define Configuration Management principles, policy, processes, and best practices across CLIENT. As the Business Owner of the Discovery Application ensure there is a Roadmap and development plan in place that allows CLIENT to fully exploit the benefits that the tool can offer. Engage with Solution Design, development, and architecture teams to influence the overall strategy for forthcoming technology & application changes and improve use of Discovery and the CMDB data structure. Ensure that documentation exists and is regularly reviewed and validated for data architecture/data models, definitions of the configuration data and agreed data quality rules. Ensure process documentation including high level process, procedures and work instructions are regularly reviewed and updated if necessary. Review and assess whether these are actual configuration management deliverables and escalate any concerns. Ensure that Discovery design documentation (for example how TPL code have been designed applied, how precedence rules are being applied etc) is kept up to date and is regularly reviewed and validated. Be the Discovery and Configuration Management lead on large projects, ensuring all configuration management requirements are in scope and that any data modelling/definition and architecture diagrams are produced/updated and that our data builds (CI's, application models, service to application mapping) are all delivered into our Configuration Management System to our defined standards and that any deployment of Discovery/TPL codes etc are delivered. Support the production of project impact assessments and the delivery of smaller projects ensuring that new Configuration Items (CIs), and service to application mapping and application modelling are reflected in the CMDB's and that any deployment of Discovery/TPL codes etc are delivered. Responsible for the day-to-day maintenance and updating of the Configuration Management Systems. Ensuring that new Configuration Items (CIs) and their relationships to one another are identified and controlled/updated throughout their lifecycle. Ensure there are processes in place to process error logs/data exceptions/analyse reports for data changes/anomalies etc. Ensure the performance of processes can be monitored and measured. Responsible for day-to-day maintenance of BMC Discovery. Tasks include design, build, deployment & configuration of new discovery infrastructure as well as managing Discovery support & data feed issues, including TPL errors and owning resolution end to end, working closely with Vendors and Suppliers alike. Responsible for the resolution of Incidents raised against Configuration and Discovery tools, ensuring Incidents are resolved within SLA and Root Cause Analysis is completed and acted on where appropriate. Measure, monitor and report on the quality of the data in the Configuration Management System and look to identify improvements to the data quality in line with business needs and priorities by tackling data quality issues at source. Ensure that Configuration Items are owned, and that the ownership is regularly checked and validated in line with best DQ practice. Support the development of targets, measures and KPI's for Discovery and Configuration Management and then when delivered develop a plan for how to meet/exceed the targets. Management of Suppliers, developing the relationship and ensuring that our suppliers are delivering against their contractual obligations. Experience or understanding of project management methodologies including planning, risk and issue management and delivery. Responsible for ensuring compliance to the required governance standards/controls of all relevant audit requirements (including but not limited to SOX, IL3, ISO20000 and ISO27001). This includes gathering evidence, delivering reporting (automated where possible) and supporting the audit process. Essential skills, knowledge, or experience (Inc. professional or technical qualifications) Experience of maintaining and managing Enterprise level Configuration Management and BMC Discovery tools and processes. Excellent understanding of the Discovery Tool, best practices and how to fully exploit the benefits that the tool can deliver. Application Modelling Experience - Including BMC SAAM (Start Anywhere Application Mapping), CAM (Collaborative Application Mapping) and at the forefront of new developments and education of the wider team during version upgrade/systems maturity. Good understanding and use of BMC Helix/Remedy and Atrium CMDB with a good understanding of BMC Common Data Model and the SID (Shared Information Data model) Excellent understanding of technologies used by IT Infrastructure (Virtualisation, LDOM, Cloud etc). Strong understanding of Configuration Management's role within other ITSM functions, including exposure/experience of Change Management, Incident Management (including Major Incident) and Problem Management. Experience or understanding of project management methodologies including planning, risk and issue management and delivery. Imaginative and innovative thinking particularly relating to problem solving and new opportunities to enhance the integrity of Configuration Management, its systems, processes and data. Experience of analysing current processes to proactively identify improvement opportunities. Excellent people management skills focussing on performance, development, and softer skills. Excellent Stakeholder Management skills helping them to understand the benefits of Discovery and Configuration Management as well as developing strong working relationships with key infrastructure teams and asset managers. Supplier Relationship Management skills, developing strong partnerships with suppliers and ensuring that they are delivering against contractual obligations. ITIL Service Management Accreditation. Strong Data Science/Analysis and reporting skills Able to produce good quality documentation & Architecture Diagrams (Visio) and processes. BMC Discovery TPL (Tideway Pattern Language) experience. Understanding of the following: Linux/Wintel Administration. Cloud Services (AWS/Azure/Openstack). Virtualisation platform exposure, VMware/HyperV/other Django Web Framework SQL/MySQL/VBA/Python/Java/Perl/Bash and or similar scripting language knowledge. TPBN1_UKTJ

Job Title: Senior Category Manager - SC Location: Reading (3 days/week on site) Contract Duration: 12 Months Daily Rate: £81.74/hr (Umbrella – Maximum) IR35 Status: Inside IR35 Security Clearance: SC & Sole Uk National Essential: SC (Security Clearance) 5+ years Public Procurement experience Negotiating Stripping costs from contracts Supplier Relationship Management Ability to influence and deliver Stakeholder Management at various levels, internal and external Ability to work autonomously Has worked similar size of contract Knowledge of MOD or working with MOD, 3+ years (worst case would accept public sector experience) Has experience doing competitive flexible procurement on PA23. Open framework experience Desirable: ERP experience An IT Background Background in integrating systems, eg SAP or similar Key Accountabilities: Develop and implement Category Strategies for assigned sub-group of categories, balancing short and long-term objectives to meet business strategy and efficiencies (savings) in alignment with business stakeholders. Support and execute complex strategic sourcing activities in line with approved category strategies and preferred suppliers list, including the execution of the RFx process, supplier evaluation and selection, contract negotiation, business award and contract handover to the business, in compliance with the business requirements as well as policies and directives, including Code of Conduct and Code of Business Ethics. Responsible for contractual and commercial management and effective contract administration to the relevant team providing commercial assurance to deliver commercial value. *Support and execute Supplier Relationship Management for key and critical suppliers within the sub-group of categories, including supplier segmentation, contract management, supplier risks identification and mitigation and suppliers performance. Identify and develop supplier value including planning and participating to external management review meetings with segmented suppliers (Management Business Reviews and Executive Business Reviews) in accordance with Supplier Relationship Management framework and the agreed supplier strategy. Support and provide input to the Process and Performance team as appropriate. Support the development and interface with the Service Centre. Key Responsibilities: Consistently demonstrating positive behaviours in line with the company's environmental, sustainability, safety, health, security, quality and ethics standards. Category Management Drive and implement Category Strategy to deliver cost effective category solutions and business models. Supplier base management and supplier classification (Preferred Supplier List – PSL), securing competition in the supplier base. Implement ways of working according to Category Management Framework including the delivery of Category targets and KPI’s for assigned group of spend categories. * Business Intelligence, benchmark and market insight to support category development. *Contribute to the long-term business ensuring competitive initial cost and total cost development in the product and service life cycle and maintenance of the specific supplier contract for products and services. Contract Management Prepare and execute a Contract which is appropriate to the scope, value and risk outlined in the sourcing strategy, ensuring all relevant stakeholders have contributed and approved as appropriate. Administer the Contract in accordance with all of the terms and conditions ensuring contract compliance. *Ensure appropriate management of commercial risks, forecast spend and change impacts with key stakeholders. Supplier Relationship Management Suppliers segmented and managed (quality, performance, risk) in accordance with the Supplier Relationship Management Framework Disability Confident As a member of the disability confident scheme, CLIENT guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. Armed Forces Covenant CLIENT is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, we guarantee to interview all veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. If you qualify for the above, please notify us on (phone number removed). We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview. Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know. To apply for this role please submit your latest CV or contact Aspect Resources on (phone number removed)