Indirect Category Lead

4 weeks ago


Woking, United Kingdom McLaren Motorsport & Automotive Full time

What to Expect What You'll Do

  • Identifying commercial opportunities and sourcing strategies within (and where appropriate across) the various McLaren companies in the Corporate Services expenditure category.
  • Supporting the Procurement team in the delivery of agreed strategic objectives in line with the HR, Legal & Finance strategies and relevant Business Plans.
  • Providing expertise across the HR, Legal & Finance sourcing categories, including market knowledge and sourcing best practice.
  • Defining and delivering the category plan, with support of Manager and identify appropriate sourcing strategies which generate benefits and achieve financial savings whilst mitigating risk for McLaren.
  • Approving purchase requisitions for the categories.
  • Applying knowledge of contracts and employment law to implement appropriate contractual safeguards, SLAs and other operational measures to ensure vendors are incentivised to deliver a robust service.
  • Providing day to day guidance as support for the business and relevant stakeholders.
  • Ensuring consistent procurement processes are undertaken to select vendors that will provide optimum value and delivery for McLaren. This will include as appropriate, assessment of vendor risk, objective management of evaluation processes, negotiation and contract execution.
  • Setting up and executing strategic and/or complex sourcing projects through the full procurement lifecycle, including (senior) stakeholder management.
  • Applying knowledge of contractual terms and conditions ensuring commercially attractive terms are agreed and contract spend remains in budget while mitigating risk in such terms.

What You'll Bring

  • Have a good understanding of IR35 and other common challenges associated with the categories.
  • Commercial awareness with an ability to assess risk in the appropriate context.

What We'll Do for You

We offer a wide – ranging benefits package, which includes:

Who Are We?

No restraints. No limitations. We don’t simply push boundaries. We completely rethink them. McLaren Automotive exists to create breath-taking performance road cars.

It takes a community to do what we do. A diverse group of people with many areas of expertise, united by their passion to deliver visionary products and set new benchmarks.

McLaren Automotive commits to equal opportunity for all. Diversity, Equality and Inclusion is at the heart of our impact, it drives our innovation and enables us to truly create something special. Join us on our journey.

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