Category Manager

4 days ago

Reading, United Kingdom Thames Water Full time

**Who are we?**
Thames Water is the UK’s largest water and wastewater company. We make a daily difference to our 15 million customers by supplying 2.6 billion litres of water through 32,000 km of pipes_,_ keeping taps flowing and toilets flushing.??At Thames Water,every one of our actions, big and small, matters every day. Water is essential to life, so our business is always open.?
**What you’ll be doing**
We are on an **exciting procurement journey** and looking for **talented 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** and a **curious mindset**.
As a **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 Thames 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 Thames Water 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 to Thames Water
- 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 Thames Water, 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 Thames 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 to Thames.
- Have strong engagement skills which allow you to support, influence and constructively challenge stakeholders to deliver the best commercial outcomes for Thames.
- A clear understanding of Category Management principles with a track record of delivering results, and 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.

**What’s in it for you?**
Joining our Category Management journey at Thames Water 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 Thames Water 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, this is an enviable opportunity to make your mark and develop your careerwith ambitious, like-minded people.
We offer a competitive salary, an excellent contributory pension and 26 days of holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service.
Thames Water 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 really great benefits. We’re also proud to be an equal opportunityemployer.
Find out more about? working at Thames Water
Outside of our daily role, we have the opportunity to ensure our customers, communities and environment can thrive through supporting the organisation in numerous areas such as partaking in our School Education program and providing Customer Incident Support,this may be by supporting our customers on the frontline as an Ambassador or being part of the team managing the incident as a Control Tower Lead. This is incredibly rewarding, and you’ll be given full training - it’s also a great opportunity to learn moreabout our business and meet colleagues.?

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