Category Manager
- Employer
- 1st Executive
- Location
- England, West Midlands, Birmingham
- Salary
- £50000 - £65000 per annum
- Closing date
- 19 Sep 2021
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- Specialist Area
- Category Manager
- Sector
- Construction
- Function
- Consultant
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
Role: Category Manager - FM + Corporate Services
Location: Birmingham. Remote / Hybrid working available
Salary: Up to £55K
Excellent opportunity to join a a multi-disciplinary civil engineering and construction group providing integrated engineering solutions and services. You'll be involved across a breadth of projects closely associated with manufacturing and production and play a key role in in supporting civil engineering projects, taking full ownership of your category across 'General and Corporate Services'.
If you have Procurement Category Management experience managing General & Corporate Services supporting functions like Marketing, IT, HR, Consultancy, Facilities, Legal Services, Estates and Insurance - this is a great opportunity to demonstrate how you can drive significant benefit through supplier sourcing, selection and contracting to best advantage our business, as well as enhancing your own career.
By optimising the specialist skills of the wider group you will be expected to deliver strategy across procurement that is driven driven by you - cradle to grave - form design through implementation and delivery. - timely, cost effective services, utilising a total cost of ownership model to meet company targets in cost reduction, savings and profitability.
This is an exciting new role that offers the potential to take ownership of and develop the Category for the company. You'll report to the Head of Category and create category strategies to identify key areas for improvement, rationalise suppliers, create framework agreements and bring stakeholders together from different streams within the business while also managing multiple projects.
Experience Required:
- Procurement expertise with Category Management and Corporate Services.
- Knowledge & experience of additional Direct & Indirect categories.
- Drafting and negotiating contract terms and conditions especially goods, services & construction contracts.
- Drafting and development of performance metrics (SLAs and KPIs).
- Assisting end users in drafting and developing specifications, statements of work etc...
- Drafting tender documentation.
- Management of the tender process.
- Market & Supplier analysis.
- Proven experience of developing and managing strong relationships with end-users, senior stakeholders and suppliers.
- Presenting business cases and strategy recommendation to Board level.
- Able to lead & manage multiple priorities / projects effectively & efficiently without compromise to quality
If of interest, please apply online and ideally also send your CV to tom.dykes@1st-executive.com.
Company
1st Executive
1st Executive are the forefront of 'Search' within the Procurement sector operating UK & Europe wide. Our focus in in interim management and permanent recruitment ranging from Senior Buyers through CPO's
At 1st Executive we understand that businesses are driven by people. We work in partnership with our clients to ensure that they improve the performance of their organisation through the right people. Our clients are organisations who are widely regarded as the most attractive to work for in their sector, consisting of FTSE 100 / Global 500 organisations as well as dynamic , growing consultancies. They are diverse in their sectors, covering FMCG, Financial Services, Manufacturing and Technology to name a few.
Our approach is professional, knowledgeable and above all, successful. This is why we are the partnership of choice for many of the UK's most prestigious organisations when it comes to finding the right person for the job.
- Website
- http://www.1st-executive.com/
- Telephone
- +44 (0) 84321 630 30
- Location
-
Connaught House
Portsmouth Road
Ripley
Surrey
GU23 7JY
United Kingdom
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