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Commercial Category Lead
2 months ago
As a Category Manager at Thames Water, you will be responsible for leading the development and implementation of commercial strategies to drive business growth and improve customer satisfaction.
Key Responsibilities:- Category Leadership: Develop and execute category strategies to drive business growth, improve customer satisfaction, and reduce costs.
- Supplier Management: Manage a portfolio of suppliers to ensure contracted expectations are met, and suppliers are delivering additional value to Thames Water.
- Market Intelligence: Provide extensive market knowledge and insight to internal stakeholders to inform category strategies and sourcing events.
- Risk Management: Identify and manage category-level risk to ensure business continuity and minimize potential disruptions.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Engage proactively with internal stakeholders to shape category approach, business needs, spending, and suppliers.
- Tender Management: Lead and evaluate competitive tenders and proposals for the supply of goods and services.
- Reporting and Compliance: Ensure timely and accurate reporting on sourcing projects using available reporting tools and adhere to company and department standards, policies, and procedures.
- Commercial Expertise: Proven commercial expertise and ability to develop and execute category strategies to drive business growth and improve customer satisfaction.
- Supplier Management: Experience in managing a portfolio of suppliers to ensure contracted expectations are met and suppliers are delivering additional value.
- Market Intelligence: Strong market knowledge and ability to provide insight to inform category strategies and sourcing events.
- Risk Management: Ability to identify and manage category-level risk to ensure business continuity and minimize potential disruptions.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Proven ability to engage proactively with internal stakeholders to shape category approach, business needs, spending, and suppliers.
- Tender Management: Experience in leading and evaluating competitive tenders and proposals for the supply of goods and services.
- Reporting and Compliance: Ability to ensure timely and accurate reporting on sourcing projects using available reporting tools and adhere to company and department standards, policies, and procedures.
- Competitive Salary: Competitive salary from £45,000 to £55,000 per annum depending on experience.
- Annual Leave: 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service (plus bank holidays).
- Pension Scheme: Contributory pension – Defined Contribution - Maximum of 12% - 2x employee contribution.
- Personal Medical Assessments: Open to all once a year.
- Benefits Scheme: Wider benefits scheme including our benefits hub, which is packed full of offers and information to save you money and support your wellbeing.
