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Procurement Category Manager, Construction & Engineering

Employer
Talent Drive
Location
Sussex
Salary
£50,000 - £60,000 + bonus + great pension + 25 days holiday + private healthcare + flexible working
Closing date
14 Nov 2019

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Specialist Area
Procurement
Sector
Utilities
Function
Manager
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time

Job Details

This well-known UK brand is going through an exciting Procurement and Commercial Transformation, as a result are growing the team significantly by hiring a Category Manager.

Reporting to the Head of Category Management, this role will give you the autonomy to work across a wide portfolio of categories, including Construction and Engineering.

You’ll be based in their beautiful offices on the Sussex coast and encouraged to work in a flexible way, in keeping with the organisation’s culture.

Work / life balance is at the core of the entire organisation and as a small Procurement team you must adopt this way of working to ensure you are in the best position to deliver maximum impact.

What the role involves:

  1. Develop and agree category specific strategies with the Senior Procurement Team, aligning with the Procurement strategy and value management strategies. Deliver sustainable value and minimise total cost of ownership
  2. Work with business leads to understand customer requirements, volume demands, and specifications to inform development of category strategies.
  3. Gather insight and analysis of category/sub-category spend to inform the team and optimise demand patterns
  4. Deliver strategic and tactical activities to deliver aggregation and product/specification standardisation, in order to leverage scale of demand
  5. Actively seek opportunities to continually improve and add value through analysis of market, best practices and collaboration with internal and external stakeholders, including third party suppliers

The person we hope to find:

  1. Strong category management experience ideally in Engineering and/or Construction
  2. Evidence of successful development and delivery of category strategy
  3. The ability to make key strategic decisions on the supplier base you are engaged with
  4. Degree educated or equivalent would be preferable, but is not essential.
  5. Be able to identify and implement negotiation strategies through a multi-function team.

Salary and Benefits:

If you are a Procurement Category Manager wanting to be part of an exciting phase in this well-known company’s journey. And be developed by some experienced Procurement Professionals? Apply today!

Thank you!

Company

Talent Drive is a specialist Procurement & Supply Chain recruitment Consultancy. Talent Drive was born of a vision to help both large and SME organisations find the most talented and driven Supply Chain and Procurement Professionals. “Delivering with Impact” is the mantra we work by, epitomising our sole focus; sourcing the best talent quickly, and effectively. We believe this can only be achieved by collaborating fully with your organisation and truly understanding what it takes to fit both culturally and professionally into your team, ensuring maximum impact upon arrival. We want to be able to act as an ambassador of your brand and become an extension of your HR or recruitment function. This way, we can talk with passion about your brand as if it were our own to ensure we attract and deliver the talent you need.

Talent Drive is not just about transacting with an organisation on a vacancy requirement. We endeavour to build long lasting, rewarding partnerships with organisations and the real barometer of success for us is being our candidates and clients first call when they need recruitment support.
 

Company info
Telephone
07523 778781
Location
Bourne House, 23 Hinton Road, Bournemouth, BH1 2EF
23 Hinton Road
Bournemouth
BH1 2EF
GB

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