Sector Category Lead

3 weeks ago

Ashford, Kent, United Kingdom QinetiQ Full time
Job Title: Sector Category Lead

As a key member of the Australia Sector Commercial & Supply Chain Function, the Sector Category Lead plays a critical role in ensuring best-in-class category management, supply chain advisory, and support services to the Threat Representation Business Unit (BU). This role supports the BU in both growth opportunities and contract delivery programs across the region.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Develop and implement category management strategies for threat-representative capabilities, encompassing target systems, towed target services, and airborne special mission operations and training.
  • Provide advice and execution to Threat Representation stakeholders on supply chain, procurement, and category strategies, including make vs. buy, cost optimization, supply chain resilience, material lead time optimization, and risks.
  • Provide expertise in the supplier market across categories under management, aiming to improve competitive advantage and product/service offerings.
  • Contribute to product development lifecycle, inventory management strategies, business winning strategies, and forecast and demand planning.
  • Collaborate with other Supply Chain functions, including Inventory and Logistics, New Business Supply Chain, and other Category Managers.
  • Deliver the Australia Sector supply chain roadmap to ensure alignment of Threat Representation Supply Chain with the wider QinetiQ Group Supply Chain processes, tools, systems, and policy.
  • Identify and qualify new suppliers and manage activities related to strategic or tactical purchasing, material requirements planning, inventory control, warehousing, and logistics.
  • Lead and deliver procurement activities, securing goods, works, and services that meet customer needs while ensuring value for money, compliance with relevant policy and procurement regulations, and generating cashable and non-cashable efficiencies.
  • Provide commercial and market intelligence to internal key stakeholders to support strategic planning and project delivery.
  • Lead Supplier Relationship Management activities across the business, monitoring supplier performance to assess continued ability to meet quality and delivery requirements.
  • Work closely with the Australia Sector Trade Compliance team on Export/Import shipments prior to shipping or receiving product, software, services, and/or technical data.
  • Maintain awareness of restrictions, controls, and accreditations placed upon suppliers working in a Defence and national security environment, ensuring sourcing strategies and the incumbent supplier base do not jeopardize or threaten internal compliance.
  • Build strong working relationships with key stakeholders across the Threat Representation BU, Australia Sector, QinetiQ Group Supply Chain & Procurement teams, suppliers, and external partners, sharing best practice to help QinetiQ achieve best-in-class performance and consistency in sourcing activities.
Support to the Supply Chain Director - Australia:
  • Implementing a global supply chain that supports business strategies adapted to changing market conditions, new business opportunities, or cost optimization strategies.
  • Developing new supplier and business relationships to meet QinetiQ's future growth and sustainability aspirations, ensuring efficiencies are maximized and key risks are mitigated.
  • Delivering against action plans and reporting to achieve QinetiQ's sustainability objectives, customer social value objectives, and legal compliance requirements.
  • Developing and implementing standardized Supply Chain & Procurement procedures across the Australia Sector.
Key Capabilities/Knowledge:
  • Understanding of Category Management principles and deep knowledge of procurement models as it relates to multi-country and diverse business offerings.
  • Ability to lead integration and transformation of processes, systems, and culture across the Threat Representation BU and its supply chain.
  • Thorough knowledge and understanding of end-to-end supply chain management, including MRP, DRP, ERP, forecasting, inventory management.
  • Strategic thinker with the ability to influence key stakeholders to improve solution design or commercial offering to deliver optimum results.
  • Ability to foresee and solve challenges that may have a broad impact on the wider business strategy or outcomes.
  • Adaptive and change-focused, able to adapt the pace of delivery to meet business requirements.
  • Ability to work independently, efficiently, and effectively under extreme time constraints and deliver results by critical deadlines.
  • Strong communications skills (written and verbal), able to focus and communicate on issues critical to the business and provide mentoring to others.
Experience and Qualifications:
  • 5-10+ years of relevant experience in senior Procurement, Category management, Supply Chain roles, ideally playing a critical role in supply chain transformations.
  • A Degree in Engineering or Business discipline, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience in implementing Category Management frameworks and transformation programs is highly desirable.
  • Demonstrated ability to engage and influence internal and external stakeholders.
  • Experience in working in fast-paced ISO, manufacturing, or engineering environments.
  • Experience in the Import/Export of regulated products.
  • Military or related industry experience preferred but not necessary.
  • Experience in working with and implementing procurement and supply chain models in ERP systems is advantageous.
  • Willingness to travel.

Please note that all applicants must be eligible for SC clearance: UKSV National Security Vetting Solution: guidance for applicants - GOV.UK ()

Why Join QinetiQ?
As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there's never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation, courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges. You'll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines, and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you'll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in a diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued, and realise your full potential.

Joining QinetiQ offers you an opportunity to work on a broad range of interesting defence-based projects with vast career progression across a global organisation in addition to competitive personal and professional benefits. You'll receive a highly competitive salary and benefits package: our basic salaries are very attractive as we constantly review what's happening in the market. The range of benefits that we offer includes flexible working, generous holiday entitlements, Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance, and Dental Insurance, and much more.

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