Role: Senior Category Manager REF 82645
Contract Length: 13 months
Location: Hybrid/Aldermaston - 2 days per week on site (The role will move to Green Park, Reading but will initially be 2 days in Aldermaston. 1 day will be on site, either Aldermaston, Burghfield and 1 day will be onsite on Thursday at Aldermaston for collaboration
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: Market Rate
Security Clearance: SC requested
Spinwell is recruiting for a Senior Category Manager for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE SENIOR CATEGORY MANAGER
- Develop, implement, and drive Category Strategy for a complex group of categories, balancing short and long-term objectives to meet business strategy and efficiencies (savings) in alignment with business stakeholders and leveraging market dynamics.
- Oversee the execution of the end-to-end strategic sourcing process for all complex and high value Procurements within the categories in the group, to deliver as well as to anticipate business requirements and needs, always in compliance with Code of Conduct and Code of Business Ethics.
- Ensure Supplier Relationship Management for key suppliers who have a significant impact on client business, with the objective of managing risk, managing performance, and extracting more value from the supplier base.
- Develop and sign off Supplier Strategies with the objective of minimizing risk for client and maximizing value.
- Act as Sourcing Business Partner for certain areas of the business or Pillars: being accountable for the Sourcing contribution (including efficiencies and risk mitigation) from business opportunity, to delivering on Stakeholder expectations and representing Supply Chain Management in the Stakeholder organisations.
- Use category expertise and external markets insights, to proactively propose alternative or innovative 3rd party solutions to senior and executive level stakeholders to anticipate issues before they arise.
- Develop the Category Team and drive a high-performance culture: secure competence development within the team, manage performance in accordance with clear goals and manage team motivation to support Supply Chain Management transformation.
- Drive Supply Chain Management transformation: continuously and consistently focus the team performance to delight stakeholders and improve Supply Chain Management profile as “Trusted Advisor” to the business.
- Support and provide input to the Process and Performance team as appropriate.
- Support the development and interface with the Service Centre.
SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE SENIOR CATEGORY MANAGER
- 5+ years demonstrable procurement experience
- Experience of high value procurement
- Experience of developing strategies
- Experience of leading on procurements
- Experience of setting up NEC contracts
- Leadership and People skills
If you are a Senior Category Manager, apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!
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