Category Manager

6 days ago

Deeside, Flintshire, United Kingdom Convatec Full time
Pioneering trusted medical solutions to improve the lives we touch: Convatec is a FTSE 100 global medical products and technologies company, focused on solutions for the management of chronic conditions, with leading positions in advanced wound care, ostomy care, continence and critical care, and infusion care.

Group revenues in 2022 were over $2 billion. With around 10,000 colleagues, we provide our products and services in over 100 countries, united by a promise to be forever caring. Our products provide a range of benefits, from infection prevention and protection of at-risk skin, to improved patient outcomes and reduced care costs. To learn more about Convatec, please visit

Job Summary

This is a key role within the Global Procurement function driving a high-performance culture and setting the standard for Procurement Excellence. We are looking for a Category Manager who will bring a strategic and innovative Category Management approach as we continue our transformation journey.

As Category Manager you will will have accountability for end-to-end Global Category Management for specified categories of Direct spend.

You will develop long term strategic plans for the category that align to current and future customer & business needs.

This will include defining category strategy through to key stakeholder and supplier interaction that delivers optimal levels of cost management, resilience, and continuous improvement.


How you'll add value:

  • Develop a fully integrated and customer/business-aligned Category Strategy for your specialist area, engaging with key stakeholder groups in doing this. This could be on a regional or global.
  • Manage and nurture critical relationships to ensure that Category Strategies are highly aligned to current and future business needs and that the supply base can support these strategies.
  • Partner and engage with key category stakeholders and suppliers to develop strategic plans, to deliver category strategy.
  • You'll have full responsible for the implementation of the category plan to ensure that procurement activities deliver the expected value to the business.
  • You will be accountable for delivering the contracts, agreements, and sourcing strategies for the supply of materials/products and/or services that support defined strategies.
  • You'll have final accountability for the full end to end Source to Contract (S2C) process.
  • Being accountable, through Supplier Relationship Management, for ensuring that the supplier base continually assessed and developed to meet changing business/customer demands.
  • You will be responsible for ensuring ESG targets are met for the suppliers that fall within your category(s).
  • Depending on the complexity of your categories being managed, you might have responsibility for a Strategic Buyer/s to ensure timely implementation of category plans.

what you'll bring to the role:

  • 5 years + working within a Strategic Procurement/Sourcing environment, employing a formal category/sourcing management process (preferably in a similar regulated industry), with MCIPS to level 6.
  • A clear understanding of Category Management principles with a demonstrated ability to define a strategy and translate it into actionable plans and manage these plans through to implementation.
  • Experience working with e-procurement tools to find, evaluate & select the best vendors to support category plans.
  • An autonomous, self-starter with a good understanding of how to map out and build a relevant stakeholder network.
  • Able to demonstrate the values and behaviours required to be successful in the role and support the Convatec 'Forever Caring' Promise.
  • Excellent inter-personal & communication skills with ability to communicate through a variety of formats to an audience of internal stakeholders of differing seniority and with external partners.
  • Results and solution oriented, with a focus on meeting required targets and deadlines.
  • Possess significant ability for analytical problem-solving and analysis/interpretation of complex problems, incorporating data gathered from a variety of sources/software tools.
  • Experience of negotiating with suppliers on all commercial and contractual matters and applying judgement as to what constitutes an acceptable level of contractual risk and supply resilience.
  • Able to promote and foster new ideas and strategies among internal and external stakeholders, challenging the status quo with sustainable solution(s).
  • Able to influence key stakeholders and professionally challenge requirements to secure best value for the business.
  • Able to work with a range of technically and culturally diverse people in a matrix environment, influencing them to achieve goals in a timely manner to help drive business results.
  • Need to demonstrate and apply analytical as well as strategic thinking skills, support teamwork, display exceptional judgment, collaboration, and decision-making.

Working Conditions:

  • Hybrid working (to be discussed with hiring manager)
  • Some travel – up to 20%

Language Skills Required:

  • Speaking: English
  • Writing/Reading: English

Our ambitions will bring the very best out in you. You'll be pushed to aim higher and really own your work. You'll be encouraged and supported to make things happen too. It can be challenging. But, as the progress you make will help improve the lives of millions, it'll be worth it.

This is stepping up to a challenge.

This is work that'll move you.

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