Procurement Category Lead

1 month ago


Salford, Salford, United Kingdom TalkTalk Group Full time

The Role

As a Category Sourcing Manager at TalkTalk Group, you will lead on all sourcing activity for your specific area of spend. You will interface with all stakeholders in their strategic, critical business function to source requirements from new and existing vendors via contract renewals, extensions, amendments, and/or full detailed competitive, multi-vendor process using our procurement tools.

The Team

TalkTalk Procurement is an exciting function managing third-party spend across the consumer unit. We are a small, dynamic, busy team, split by key categories of indirect and direct spend and we often find the biggest opportunities by working together.

Key Responsibilities

  • All procurement projects within assigned category.
  • Full and detailed spend and budget review.
  • Pipeline planning and maintaining for all requirements.
  • Using and maintaining all the procurement engagement tracker, contract database, and sourcing tools for their area of spend.
  • Applying the category management principles, whilst focusing on priorities.

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