Senior Category Manager

7 days ago

Reading, United Kingdom Dawson Levy Resourcing Limited Full time

**Dawson Levy Resourcing** currently have a great opportunity for a Senior Category Manager to join a leading Water organisation on a permanent basis in Reading.

**What you'll be doing**

We are embarking on an exciting procurement journey and looking for talented Senior Category Managers who can challenge, engage, influence and drive change within an ever-moving market to join us. We're looking for individuals to bring a fresh approach anda curious mindset.

As a Senior Category Manager, you should be a commercial expert for the category that you lead. You should be able to utilise this market expertise to develop and deliver strategies, ensuring that the organisation is market-leading in their commercial arrangements.

**What does this role involve?**
- You will play an essential part in the Procurement and Supplier Management team. You will ensure that a strategic and innovative Category Management approach is consistently embedded within the way that Commercial, and us delivers its service
- Responsible for managing a portfolio of suppliers to ensure contracted expectations continue to be improved throughout the contract life cycle and to support these suppliers in delivering additional value.
- Actively lead, develop, and manage end-to-end category plans for the short, medium, and long term. Identify a pipeline of initiatives to maximise value and outcomes for us, balancing commercial risk and value opportunities
- Providing extensive category knowledge and supply market insight to internal stakeholders. Delivering category plans and sourcing events, providing SME support and identifying/managing category-level risks
- Becoming the commercial expert for the category that enables us to quickly adapt to market changes

**What you should bring to the role?**
- A clear and granular understanding of stakeholder and corporate needs in the short, medium, and long term
- Have detailed knowledge of the external supply market including suppliers, trends, innovation, market changes and dynamics that enable the identification of new suppliers of value.
- Have strong engagement skills which allow you to support, influence and constructively challenge stakeholders to deliver the best commercial outcomes for us
- A clear understanding of Category Management principles with a track record of delivering results across a number of different category areas, building fantastic supplier and stakeholder relationships
- Ability to lead and provide insight for the business on all aspects of supply market dynamics, regulatory and internal frameworks, suppliers, and technical innovations
- Be able to identify market insights, trends, opportunities, and risks
- Manage Categories up to £100m in value with significant strategic risk to the organisation

**What's in it for you?**

Joining our Category Management journey makes a daily difference to millions of lives while building a better future for our customers, our region, and our planet.

This is an exciting time to join us as we embark on our collaborative "turn-around" plan. This plan will ensure an ambitious, resilient, and sustainable wastewater service for future generations. Having the freedom to influence and inspire, is an enviableopportunity to make your mark and develop your career with ambitious, like-minded people.

Our competitive salary and package include a bonus, car allowance, private healthcare, an excellent contributory pension and 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with length of service.

Our client is a dynamic, rewarding and diverse place to work, with opportunities around every corner. If you join our team, you'll enjoy a fulfilling career, flexible working arrangements and a wider benefits scheme including our benefits hub, which is packedfull of offers and information to save you money and support your wellbeing.

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