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2 months ago

Watford, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom TJX Europe Full time
Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Category Manager to join our team at TJX Europe. As a key member of our global procurement team, you will be responsible for managing the delivery and implementation of GS&P category strategies across our European operations.

Key Responsibilities
  • Execute global, international, and national category plans via tools embedded in the strategic sourcing methodology and in collaboration with internal business partners.
  • Embrace regional, international, and cross-functional, multi-cultural teams in the execution of the strategic sourcing process and the implementation of the strategy.
  • Develop and evolve product or service requirements across all TJX's brands and geographies.
  • Maximise opportunities to batch multi-divisional requirements to create larger pools of sourcing to increase savings to TJX.
  • Prepare a regional negotiation plan and execute accordingly, involving TJX legal as necessary.
  • Pro-actively use automated sourcing processes, including auctions, RFX's, and relationship management systems.
Regional Vendor Management
  • Manage the commercial element of supplier relationships.
  • Understand tradeoffs of risk, quality, and cost, and be able to manage each area through supplier management, contracting, and negotiations.
  • Maintain fair, courteous, and productive relationships with all TJX international strategic vendors and reinforce TJX Europe's positive brand image within the vendor community.
  • Look to identify or develop and incorporate innovative products, services, approaches such as off-shoring, out-sourcing, consortia development, best country sourcing to support TJX Europe's low-cost producer strategy.
Contract Compliance
  • Ensure that appropriate contractual terms are in place.
  • Prepare category reports for the Manager of Category and the GSPLT.
Innovation
  • Raise market innovation for covered categories and bring applicable ideas to the business for testing, cost modelling, and performance measurement.
People Management and Leadership
  • Support the optimization of TJX Europe's £500 million indirect spend globally (6+ countries).
  • On a category basis, undertake annual sourcing initiatives delivering between £1 and £2 million in yearly savings.
  • Responsible and impacts up to £75 million in indirect spend on an international basis.
  • Manage key strategic and day-to-day operational regional supplier relationships by actively planning and delivering on action items through the management of regional and national account executives.
  • Actively represent TJX Europe within the global supplier community and the business world at large.
  • Vendor management and the harvesting of innovation from our vendor community is an integral part of the job description.
  • Recommend category initiatives within the portfolio of spend (10 to 20 initiatives per year).
  • Decide on negotiation plan and execute accordingly.
  • Recommendation for final vendor selection.
Key Skills, Knowledge & Experience
  • Bachelor's degree.
  • Experience in off-shoring and outsourcing.
  • Expertise in global strategic category sourcing.
  • Experience in global sourcing and Low-Cost Country Sourcing preferred.
  • Multi-country negotiations and contracts.
  • Experience in managing multiple stakeholders.
  • Property, Construction, FM related category experience and knowledge (plus others).
  • Oracle/SAP/Ariba or similar e-sourcing/P2P experience/knowledge.
  • Strong business and people management skills.
  • Excellent interpersonal relationship development skills.
  • Training & development skills.
  • Advanced Excel and PowerPoint.
  • CIPS qualified.
  • English with an additional European language desired.