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Junior Category Manager

Employer
Southern Water
Location
Hybrid working with site visits to Durrington and Falmer as required.
Salary
Up to £34,900
Closing date
29 May 2022

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Specialist Area
Category Manager, Procurement
Sector
Energy & Utilities, Utilities
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time

It is an exciting time to join us!

There has never been a better time to join us than now.
As a Junior Category Manager, you will be an integrated part of our passionate Sourcing and Category Management team in a role that offers growth and opportunity working in a variety of projects as part of our key transformational programmes.

By understanding the specific needs of our customers, your role will be fundamental in developing and supporting category and sourcing strategies by gathering and analysing internal and external data, providing valuable inputs into the strategy development and implementation of strategic direction to optimise total cost of ownership.

You will support and engage collaboratively with the business to analyse requirements, to allow early involvement of procurement activity in any external third party spend, open to challenging forum and be part of peer groups to discuss current trends and themes in an agile market condition. Based on the analysis, you will be integral in developing and implementing specific strategies across one or more categories and actively seeking opportunities for continuous improvement by working closely with the Category Manager.

The junior category manager role is a great opening which offers real opportunity to be empowered allowing the right individual to add their own flare to ensure the business needs and objectives are achieved.

Being highly analytical, with a strong ability to extract, manipulate and present data with proven experience of successful implementation of category strategies by managing successful internal and external stakeholder management, this role will allow you to develop and grow within the procurement and commercial team.

With a Bachelor’s degree in business administration, commerce, finance, engineering or other relevant discipline or experience, including working towards CIPS of the ambition to, this role is ideal if you are looking to progress in a large and supportive procurement team. Category experience in at least one of the categories : asset purchase and hire, IT, telecoms, HR, professional services, facilities or business services if a nice to have, however we are keen to hear from you if you are willing to learn and want to make a difference!

Does this opportunity excite you but you’re not 100% sure if you meet all the requirements for the role? Or are you concerned that ‘normal’ office hours aren’t possible given your personal circumstances? Whilst we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we’ll try to find a practical solution. So why not engage with us and find out more about this role?

Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, because delivering water for life is our core purpose. To achieve this, we need 24/7 support in place to resolve incidents quickly and efficiently. All our employees understand the importance of out-of-hours incident support – because when problems appear, fixing them is our top priority. That’s why our people join together and support when and however needed to make sure our customers get the service they deserve. Joining the Southern Water family means you’ll become part of our incident support team. During your interview, your manager will speak to you about any incident support rotas that apply to your position.

Privacy Statement:

Please note: If you are an existing Southern Water employee, you will need to confirm within your application that your Manager is aware of your application.

All applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK. You will need to provide evidence of eligibility (e.g. a passport or long birth certificate and proof of NI) and current proof of address (dated within the last 3 months), will be required as part of the recruitment process. If you do not meet these criteria, your application will not be considered

By submitting your details to this position at Southern Water, you are also agreeing to share your details with Gattaca PLC who are the managed service provider for all recruitment with Southern Water

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