Assistant Category Manager

The Technology Category Manager leads the activities across categories of spend with the accountability for developing and executing effective procurement strategies for the categories and actively contributing to the development of the procurement function’s service to Primark.
Healthcare, pension, and potential bonus. 27 days of leave, plus bank holidays and if you want, you can buy 5 more. Because Primark is all about tailoring to you, we offer Tax Saver Tickets, fitness centre, and a subsidised cafeteria.

What You’ll Do As a Technology Category Manager
You will be responsible for developing and executing strategic category management to drive spend under management and value for Primark, to support both business-as-usual and the delivery of strategic investments and programmes for your assigned categories
You will be accountable for developing and executing a comprehensive, multi-year category plan, aligned with business goals, market dynamics, and internal demand, to ensure optimal performance, cost savings, and risk.
You will lead the creation and implementation of go-to market and sourcing strategies, associated plans and negotiation strategies, to be included in the category plan
You will also identify, assess and manage supplier risk, and the risk associated with the supply of goods and services in your category area, as part of the category plan. This should ensure resiliency, efficiency, regulatory compliance and adherence to governance standards
Using insights and analytics, you will create long-term cost savings plans and sourcing strategies that align with business goals and represent a culture of innovation and dynamic agility.
Beyond price, you will be responsible for identifying and delivering continuous operational improvement, innovation, and sustainability.
Working closely with the relevant business stakeholder, the role holder will identify and develop strategic supplier relationships, supporting performance management (operational and commercial) as well as supplier innovation.
You will be a leader of change, by implementing and embedding the new ways of working with procurement and GBS partner, procurement policy and governance.

Here at Primark, we want everyone to feel valued – so please bring your authentic self to work, of course with some other key experience and abilities for this role in particular:
~7+ years related experience in a Category Manager role. Demonstrated success in developing and delivering multi-year strategies ensuring competitive commercial advantage.
~ Expert knowledge of financial and legal contract negotiations; sign off on negotiation strategies, lead negotiation, and manage the commercial components of contract drafting.
~ Demonstrated ability to forge close business relationships with internal and external stakeholders at all management levels.
~ Project management skills.
~ Ability to travel as required (
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