Senior Procurement Specialist - Performance & Analytics

Scottish Water Horizons Ltd; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 44,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent water supply company in Scotland seeks a Senior Procurement Specialist for their Procurement & Supply Chain team. This full-time position involves analyzing key performance data and providing valuable insights to the leadership team. Ideal candidates should have experience in data analysis tools, especially PowerBI, and a passion for customer service. A competitive salary of £44,030 to £55,000 is offered, along with generous holidays and a hybrid working model.

Benefits

36 days of holiday

Pension plans

Life assurance

Community volunteering time off

Flexible working hours

Qualifications

• Strong track record in analyzing key performance data and metrics.
• Ability to use various data analysis and reporting tools.
• Passionate about data and delivering excellent customer service.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality data analysis and insights to support decision making.
• Support the team in embracing digital efficiency.
• Drive continuous improvement in data capture, analysis, and reporting.

Skills

Data analysis

Performance metrics analysis

Customer service

Strategic vision

Collaboration

Tools

PowerBI

Job description

* You may choose to display a cookie banner on the external site. You must specify the message in the cookie banner and may add a link to a relevant policy. If you are unfamiliar with these requirements, please seek the advice of legal counsel.Senior Procurement Specialist - Performance & Analytics page is loaded## Senior Procurement Specialist - Performance & Analyticslocations: Stepps, Glasgowtime type: Full timeposted on: Posted 6 Days Agotime left to apply: End Date: January 21, 2026 (8 days left to apply)job requisition id: R11208**Together we are Trusted to Serve Scotland.**How’s this for job satisfaction: at Scottish Water, we look after Scotland's most precious natural resource. From source to tap, we guard Scotland’s reputation for refreshingly pure water while caring for our environment.**Senior Procurement Specialist - Performance & Analytics** to join our Procurement & Supply Chain team in Stepps.**What you’ll do**With over 400 supplier frameworks and approximately £1.3b of annual supply chain spend, you’ll help keep our Procurement and Supply Chain team on-track by providing high quality data analysis and interpretation, and convert that into insights people can act on, even if they don’t find quite the same joy in them as you.You will also be all over the team’s push to embrace digital efficiency – supporting colleagues and finding better ways of working.**What you’ll bring**You’ll bring a positive energy and strategic vision to new ideas, getting people on board as you go. You must also share our passion for great data and analysis and delivering great customer service.With a strong track record in analysing key performance data and metrics you will provide management information to the Procurement Leadership Team and wider Procurement function to ensure effective decision making.Supporting the team in driving continuous improvement in the way we capture, analyse and report information you will help ensure the Procurement & Supply Chain team continues to add significant value to Scottish Water.You will be familiar with a range of data analysis and reporting tools including PowerBI and be able to quickly pick up and utilise other software tools as required.**Looking out for you**While the work we do is important, we know it’s not the only thing that matters. That’s why we make sure you have everything you need to find a good work-life balance.This is a full-time role (35 hours per week) and you’ll get plenty of time to recharge with 38 days of holiday every year (including public holidays). And you can even buy five more if you need a little extra time. You can also take time off to volunteer in your community.For your future, there’s our pension (the ‘know-what-you’ll-get-when-you-retire’ kind), and life assurance.**The not-so-small print**This role will be a Grade 7. If you’re new to Scottish Water, you’ll join us on a starting salary of £44,030. Performance-driven pay progression would then allow you to move through the range to a maximum of £55,000.If you’re interested in this role – or know someone else who might be - we’ll be accepting applications until midnight on 20th January 2026.We operate Balanced Hybrid working at Scottish Water and we encourage people to work half their time in a Scottish Water location. This particular role will require weekly attendance at our procurement centre of excellence in Stepps.Job offers at Scottish Water are conditional, and will be confirmed on completion of our pre-employment screening, e.g. referencing, criminal record checks, license checks, etc. Screening is conducted on our behalf by a third party, and must be completed before your start date. Don’t worry - we’ll only start these checks once you’ve accepted an offer.**A few final things worth knowing…**Research shows that some people avoid applying for jobs unless they can meet every single criteria. If you’re interested in this job, but don’t tick all the boxes, apply anyway! We hardly ever hire people who can do every part of a job from Day One. Everyone has a learning curve. So don’t rule yourself out! Let us know if there are any changes we can make to our recruitment process to help you perform at your best. Lots of our people have disabilities or neurodiverse conditions (including some of our recruiters!). We're also aware that some people might be experiencing temporary challenges because of life events, like menopause. We’re very used to making adjustments, so please don’t be afraid to ask. As part of our commitment to developing a flourishing Scotland, it’s important that all our employees are Scottish taxpayers. If you join us, your home address will need to be in Scotland. If you don’t already live here, you'll need to commit to moving here within your first three months.Please note, Scottish Water takes the safety, health and wellbeing of our employees, colleagues and customers very seriously and as such you may be subject to Drug & Alcohol testing in line with our policy.Finally (finally!), candidates who haven’t submitted an application in the last 12 months will have their records removed from our recruitment database. You won’t need to do anything. Your data will be automatically deleted. We’re here to help. Ask us anything at [e-mail]**Together we are Trusted to Serve Scotland.**Working at Scottish Water you'll be making a real difference to the lives of the people and communities in Scotland who rely on the vital water and waste water services we provide. We offer a broad range of career opportunities and our approach to inclusion and diversity means we can make a real difference together. Our people are essential to providing our customers with the very best service in communities around Scotland. We're passionate about attracting, developing and retaining the best people who can make a positive difference to our business.If you are passionate about delivering a great customer service and can inspire trust and demonstrate pride in your work, we are confident that you will find Scottish Water a place where you can build on your talents and one where you can thrive.If you would like to join our team at Scottish Water you can find out more about our latest vacancies .