Category Assistant

Our Central Manchester based client are looking to appoint a Category Assistant to join their General Goods and Services department

The aim of the role is to lead and deliver a profession supply chain service with a focus on improvements in service and costs savings / avoidance in nominate areas. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a well-established city centre company with an abundance of personal development opportunities.

Duties will include:

Ability to work within a team and have a pro-active approach to also work independently

Implement group sourcing strategies -helping to develop and implement contract and purchase orders through agreed processes

Liaise daily with colleagues nationwide

Work independently with Category Managers to ensure that appropriate Pos are in place with the Supply Chain policy spend

Day to day liaison with service partners

Monitor new vendor set up forms to vet potential vendors

Support or lead low level sourcing process including analysis of data

Assist departments to better control costs and improve services within budgets

Review spends and Vendor performance across service line areas

Provide administrative support to the service line team

Develop service line knowledge

Able to act with integrity and confidentiality

Respond to adhoc activities from stakeholders

There is an element of flexibility with this role, but it will mainly be office based.

To be considered for this role please send your CV to Charlotte or Karen at RSNW or contact the office on (phone number removed) to discuss the role in more detail

We regret to advise that only shortlisted Candidates will be contacted for this role