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Category Manager

Employer
Procurement Heads
Location
East Sussex
Salary
£65-70,000 + 20% bonus + enhanced pension
Closing date
23 Sep 2021

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Specialist Area
Category Manager
Sector
Banking, Finance and Insurance
Function
Manager
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
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Job Details

A diversified FTSE 100 financial services business with sustainability high on its agenda is seeking a Category Manager - Marketing & Print.

Full Job DescriptionReporting to the Head of Sourcing, you’ll manage a spend of circa £60m across the Marketing and Print categories, strategically managing and optimising procurement’s influence on marketing across the Group. 
  
In addition, you’ll place a strong emphasis on developing effective stakeholder relationships, maintaining supply market expertise to drive the best overall value for money and minimising supply chain risk. 
  
As Category Manager - Marketing & Print your key responsibilities will be:
  

  • Category ownership for Marketing / Digital Coms, Print and postage Category
  • Ownership of Marketing/Digital Coms Procurement Category/Print and postage across the Group
  • Proactively managing and addressing spend via RFPs, E-Sourcing and Supplier/Market engagement, providing expert-level market intelligence and best practice procurement principles to the federated marketing functions across the Group
  • Business Partnering with key stakeholders to develop robust internal relationships and develop an accurate project pipeline
  • Providing thought leadership and sourcing strategy regarding category

  Skills and experience:
 

  • Extensive Marketing Procurement experience (essential)
  • Marketing/Digital Comms/Print experience (essential)
  • Experience in leading RFP processes in Marketing & Print
  • Robust stakeholder management skill
  • Working knowledge of P2P/E Procurement tools
  • Team/People Management skills.

  
Benefits of the Category Manager - Marketing & Print role include:   

  • £65-70,000
  • 20% bonus
  • Enhanced pension
  • 27 days holiday
  • Private medical insurance

Company

PROCUREMENT HEADS ICON [square]

Procurement Heads is all about getting to know great Procurement Professionals and bringing them together to make outstanding Procurement teams.

With a proven track record of delivery, we support people through the life-cycle of their careers, providing an end-to-end consultative service. We partner with many prominent brands and organisations, sourcing Procurement talent using industry-leading tools and techniques. Focussed and proactive, our methodology provides a comprehensive assessment of your needs and tailors solutions to meet them. The ability to identify and attract the best people across all sectors, often involves us designing and managing bespoke campaigns.

Our purpose...

To deliver recruitment as a professional service.

We engage with leaders across procurement, HR and executive functions to make their organisations successful. More than just a recruitment company, we provide a suite of talent solutions tailored to your business needs.

Our values

Rewarding relationships

For us, it’s personal. Relationships are pivotal to our existence and we place great value on their development. We encourage collaboration through our unique referral scheme ‘The Heads Up’ and are driven by a desire to build deep long-standing partnerships. Our goal is to act as an ambassador for the teams and individuals we support.

Exceeding expectations

More than just a recruitment company, we engage with leaders to deliver the unexpected when it comes to sourcing talent. Going beyond ‘filling the role’, we advise, challenge, champion and are innovative in the value-add solutions we provide.

Doing the right thing

Doing the right thing is not difficult. Knowing what the right thing is, that’s where we come in. Everyone has a responsibility for the choices they make. We pledge to lead the way by championing Equality, Diversity & Inclusion and Sustainability.

Our team of experienced Procurement consultants are on hand to support you with your Procurement career.

Address: The Corner, Gordon Rd, Winchester SO23 7DD

Tel: 01962 869 838

Website: https://www.procurementheads.com/

Company info
Website
Telephone
01962 869 838
Location
Heads Resourcing Group,
West Wing, Ground Floor,
Burlington House, Hedge End
 Southampton
Hampshire
SO30 2AF
United Kingdom
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