Senior Procurement Programme Manager

Southern Water • Worthington, MN

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

Southern Water’s Procurement Excellence & Sustainability discipline delivers effective governance, reporting, analytics, insights, sustainability, capability development and compliance to support the efficient and ongoing enhancement of the Procurement Function’s operation. The Senior Procurement Programme Manager supports the Head of Procurement Excellence & Sustainability by managing a team to deliver: Tight management across company programmes that require Procurement’s involvement, and Procurement’s own internal programmes and projects. Ongoing, meaningful communications to the business. A robust, value-creating Business Engagement model with stakeholders. Oversight for budgetary control (CAPEX). This role suits someone highly organised, able to manage multiple projects and their ambiguities, and a highly effective communicator. You’ll drive procurement excellence across the Procurement function and wider Southern Water business—leading the planning and delivery of Procurement’s programmes/projects and internal change, owning company-wide communication and business engagement activity, and ensuring key deliverables for transformation programmes requiring Procurement involvement. You will also run the governance cadence that keeps decision-making crisp and accountable—bringing together programme delivery, PMO, change management and communications so that Procurement Excellence is visible, measurable and sustained across Southern Water.

Requirements

• Degree (or equivalent experience) in a business/management discipline.
• CIPS (or equivalent) strongly preferred; strong Procurement background.
• Proven people leadership and team management experience.
• Programme/PMO/change management literacy; able to manage ambiguity across multiple concurrent initiatives.
• Stakeholder engagement excellence; confident communicator across senior leadership.
• Budget management experience

Nice To Haves

• Working knowledge of PA23 and regulated governance frameworks (utilities, banking or similar).
• Experience delivering procurement transformation and enterprise‑wide comms.
• Familiarity with P2P/Source‑to‑Pay solutions (e.g., SourcePay) and cross‑functional programme delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning and delivery of Procurement’s programmes/projects and internal change, ensuring outcomes are visible and measurable.
• Own all business-wide Procurement communications and the stakeholder engagement model; line-manage the Comms Lead.
• Provide tight oversight of programme governance (including PMO cadence) and keep decision-making crisp and accountable.
• Maintain CAPEX budget oversight and financial controls for Procurement programmes.
• Coordinate Procurement’s contribution to company-wide transformation initiatives
• Ensure Procurement engagement and communications align with governance and PA23 regulations.
• Coach, develop and line-manage.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees