Procurement Category Manager

4 weeks ago


London Area, United Kingdom Talent Drive | B Corp™ Full time
Procurement Lead - Corporate and Professional Services

£80,000 - £95,000 per annum + 5.34% flex allowance + on target 20% bonus, competitive pension + benefits + hybrid working with amazing central London office, 50% of time in office and 50% working from home.

This is an exceptional opportunity to join a renowned and respected commercial organisation that manages a diverse portfolio of land and assets across the UK. As a Procurement Lead, you will play a key role in setting up the procurement category strategy across professional, corporate and technology spend.

You will be responsible for enhancing the governance through the procurement cycle, ensuring sourcing decisions represent best value for the Enterprise. The role will also influence and support a procurement transformation programme to create procurement best practice processes, technologies to improve user-experience and to provide better value.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Develop category strategies across corporate and professional services supplier spend and development
  • Engage early in the decision-cycle, understanding business needs and gaps, providing value and commercial opportunities
  • Support the implementation of an improved Source to Pay (S2P) Unit 4 processes and technology, both within the procurement team and across the wider Enterprise
  • Ensure governance per new sourcing process, which includes ensuring compliance to public sector procurement regulations and soon, new procurement act
  • Lead and develop a team of three Category Managers
Requirements:
  • Experience across Indirect Procurement and Category Management - corporate services, professional services and tech
  • Experience across sourcing, governance and supplier management
  • Some experiences across public sector, with some knowledge of PCR and comfortable in this environment
  • Leadership and managing a team is crucial for this
  • Strong stakeholder and commercial acumen
  • Business Partnering approach, hands on and enthusiastic about driving change and improvement

If you're a Senior Category manager or strong indirect category management with team leadership experience, please apply today.



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