Senior Category Officer
2 weeks ago
TristoneNash are supporting a housing provider in their search for a Senior Category Officer to join the team. The role will be mainly home based with an office visit once per week.
**Job role**:
Proactively coordinate and manage procurement activity, maximising savings and value for money, for a range of assigned spend categories/projects.
Support internal stakeholders on the procurement journey from establishing the requirement and procurement strategy, to tendering and contract award.
Manage spend within internal Group Procurement Policy and external legal compliance obligations (including Public Contracts Regulations 2015), where applicable.
Category Manager for assigned spend categories.
Procurement Business Partner for assigned directorates/departments.
Managing multiple end-to-end procurement projects, developing and delivering category strategies in line with overall business strategy.
Influence a broad network of business stakeholders to ensure group requirements are aligned and commercially maximised with effective procurement solutions.
**Key Accountabilities**:
**Business/ Stakeholder Engagement**
- Managing the needs and expectations to drive satisfaction, whilst ensuring compliance to procurement standards and alignment with strategy.
- Category Strategy
- Develop and implement category strategies to deliver maximum value in line with business strategy
**Sourcing**
- Of goods, services and works to a multi-site business, ensuring quality supply partnering and assurance.
**Contracting**
- Professionally manage contract creation, administration and compliance.
- Maximise financial and operational performance, and minimise risk.
- Supplier Selection and Management
- Relationship building, negotiation, performance management, development, continuous improvement.
**General**
- Develop effective relationships with a wide range of internal stakeholders.
- Conduct market analysis to recommend supply market approach.
- Understand supplier and market trends to determine leverage opportunities.
- Analyse spend data to identify cost saving opportunities.
- Support stakeholder specification generation, commercial and pricing terms and contract management process.
- Professionally challenge specifications to ensure provisions are fit for purpose.
- Manage full tender lifecycle via supplier portal (In-tend).
- Management of category contracts to maximise consolidation benefits.
- Manage forward procurement plan for category contracts identify aggregation opportunities, and to plan the implementation of contracts on a timely basis to ensure compliance.
- Monitor supplier spend and manage performance throughout contract life.
**Essential experience required**:
- Strong commercial and business awareness.
- Customer focused, both internally and externally.
- Good knowledge of Public Contract Regs 2015.
- Housing Associations, commercial construction, property development.
- Facilities Management.
- Governance, regulations, policy, risk.
- Public Sector Procurement.
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