Category Manager

4 days ago


East Sussex, United Kingdom Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited Full time

Category Manager
**Your new company**
You will be working for the South East' biggest utilities organisation - with 2/3 days a week travel to site you will based within a beautiful location based on the South Coast, a short journey from the beach.
This company offers flexibility, hybrid working and some attractive benefits
**Your new role**
You will be involved in huge Infrastructure investment with nature-based solutions, land management and customer behaviour focus all of which have an important part to play in an integrated approach. Your vital work will become a fundamental contribution tothe major projects team within the Procurement and Commercial Function of the organisation.
You will be accountable for developing and implementing specific demand and category strategies, engaging with internal customers to understand requirements, volume demands, and specifications. Your support on all associated commercial activity to achieve valuecreation and minimise total cost of ownership, working closely with the Sourcing Manager to execute the full sourcing lifecycle and deliver against procurement and value management strategies will be highly valued towards a successful category management.
Key responsibilities;
- drive cost reduction through standardisation, aggregation of demand, and actions to minimise tail spend within the category and establish collaborative relationships internally and externally to align approaches
- engage Procurement early in third party spend and seek additional opportunities to maximise value.
- Continuously drive improvement programmes and translate external best practices, innovation and ideas into actionable proposals and plans for the business.

**What you'll need to succeed**:

- Experience in procurement, sourcing, commercial management.
- A degree/qualification in a relevant field,
- Experience in category and stakeholder management
- Ideally be MCIPS qualified or equivalent.
- Experience of having set up a PFI type project will be an added advantage.

**What you'll get in return**
As well as a competitive salary of up to £55,000 you will also receive;
- Flexible working
- 25 days holiday
- A Perk Box discount scheme
- BUPA Health cash plan
- Fantastic development & training

**What you need to do now**
If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.


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