Category Manager

This is a key role within the Global Procurement function driving a high-performance culture and setting the standard for Procurement Excellence. We are looking for a Category Manager who will bring a strategic and innovative Category Management approach to Convatec as we continue our transformation journey.

• Develop fully integrated and customer/business-aligned Category Strategy(s) for assigned spend area(s) engaging with key stakeholder groups in doing this.
• Manage critical relationships (stakeholder and supplier) to ensure that Category Strategies are highly aligned to current and future business needs and that the supply base is capable of supporting these strategies.
• Engage with key category stakeholders and suppliers to develop strategic plans, in order to deliver category strategy.
• Implement the category plan to ensure that procurement activities deliver the expected value to the business.
• Deliver contracts, agreements, and sourcing strategies for the supply of materials/products and/or services that support defined strategies.
• Source to Contract (S2C) process, including identification of opportunities, sourcing strategy (RFP or E-Auction), evaluation, recommendation, and award.
• Ensure that the supplier base supporting your category(s) is continually assessed and developed to meet changing business/customer demands.
• Identify and drive continuous improvement/innovation initiatives that will generate value through increased supplier performance and/or capabilities.
• Ensure ESG targets are met for the suppliers that fall within your category(s).

• 5 years + working within a Strategic Procurement/Sourcing environment, employing a formal category/sourcing management process (preferably in a similar regulated industry), with MCIPS to level 6.
• A clear understanding of Category Management principles with a demonstrated ability to define a strategy and translate it into actionable plans and manage these plans through to implementation.
• Experience working with e-procurement tools to find, evaluate & select the best vendors to support category plans.
• An autonomous, self-starter with a good understanding of how to map out and build a relevant stakeholder network.
• Able to demonstrate the values and behaviors required to be successful in the role and support the Convatec 'Forever Caring' Promise.
• Excellent inter-personal & communication skills with ability to communicate through a variety of formats to an audience of internal stakeholders of differing seniority and with external partners.
• Results and solution oriented, with a focus on meeting required targets and deadlines.
• Possess significant ability for analytical problem-solving and analysis/interpretation of complex problems, incorporating data gathered from a variety of sources/software tools.
• Good understanding of financial principles, resource planning and allocation, to support delivery of a Category Plan to deliver cost management, resilience, and continuous improvement.
• Experience of negotiating with suppliers on all commercial and contractual matters and applying judgement as to what constitutes an acceptable level of contractual risk and supply resilience.
• Able to promote and foster new ideas and strategies among internal and external stakeholders, challenging the status quo with sustainable solution(s).
• Able to influence key stakeholders and professionally challenge requirements to secure best value for the business.
• Able to work with a range of technically and culturally diverse people in a matrix environment, influencing them to achieve goals in a timely manner to help drive business results.

• Hybrid working

• Speaking: English
• Writing/Reading: English

Our ambitions will bring the very best out in you. You'll be pushed to aim higher and really own your work. You'll be encouraged and supported to make things happen too. It can be challenging. But, as the progress you make will help improve the lives of millions, it'll be worth it.

This is stepping up to a challenge.

This is work that'll move you.

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