Category Manager

3 weeks ago


Glasgow, United Kingdom MRD Recruitment Full time

MRD Recruitment is delighted to be recruiting a 12-month FTC for Category Manager (Directs) on behalf of our Engineering client. My client is a global leader in their respective field and the successful incumbent will report into their Ops Director and bebased in Glasgow.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Current annual spend circa £100m
- Define category strategy and gain buy-in from key stakeholders including operating company-specific initiatives to execute strategy.
- Drive collaboration and best practice sharing among category representatives in all business units.
- Continuously build and deliver savings initiatives and achieve all business targets.
- Lead and develop best-in-class supplier management
- Support new suppliers and ensure measures are put in place to improve on quality, OTD, & costs.
- Identify & lead the identification and execution of opportunities with suppliers.
- Identify opportunities to utilize technology advancements or market changes for cost and quality improvements.
- Identify and minimize supply chain risks for category (Directs).
- Collaborate and identify suppliers that can improve cost while maintaining high-levels of quality and delivery.
- The role holder will be expected to travel frequently to other sites.

**Essential skills**
- STEM Degree is preferential, but not essential
- Previous strategic sourcing experience in a direct category/s capacity
- Experience of working across multiple locations,
- Strong leadership skills and ability to influence stakeholders
- Strategic focus with the ability to analyse, formulate and implement strategic procurement strategies to significantly reduce cost
- Excellent team player with the ability to work with multiple customers
- Strong ethical and integrity standards
- Sets personal deliverables and maintains commitment
- Excellent communication and influencing skills with an ability to clearly present ideas, concepts and processes

**Further skills and behaviours**
- Ability to coordinate several projects simultaneously.
- Comfortable to adapt in an environment of complexity and changing priorities.
- Effective problem identification and solution skills
- Ability to communicate effectively at various levels of seniority in the business
- Manages challenging assignments in a global environment.
- Ability to inspire innovative performance of peers and suppliers
- Constructively challenge senior management and influence their approach on key programme / project issues.
- The Category Manager is expected to manage the job priorities and workload, in order to ensure deliverables are completed to the agreed timescales.
- The Category Manager is expected to communicate professionally in all aspects of the role


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