Senior Global Category Buyer
3 days ago
**Location: Slough, Berkshire or Amsterdam, Netherlands (Optional)** **Competitive Salary & excellent benefits package** The position requires a highly motivated, well organised, flexible and pro-active Senior Buyer to: - Lead the procurement of a subsection of a global category under the supervision of the Global Category Lead. The planned sub-section for this role is under review, but likely to be Public Relations, Influencers, and Social agencies. - Build and accelerate sustainable Procurement strategies for the Category sub-section under scope (across all KPIs including total cost, NWC, quality, service & innovation) through understanding of, and supporting internal stakeholders’ needs, professional sourcing approach, building effective relationships and alignment with stakeholders, and increasing spend coverage by Procurement, - Deliver year on year efficiency savings projects through a mix of strategic initiatives, ideations, mix and demand management, suppliers’ initiatives, procurement events As the Senior Global Category Manager you will: - Manage, in autonomy, an identified sub-section of the Global Category, spread across 68 countries, including Corporate spending on the relevant categories, across a portfolio of approx. >20 suppliers - Develop, maintain and nurture a world-class portfolio of suppliers that can bring or jointly develop innovative solutions and impact top line growth - Directly lead & manage Price Efficiency and supplier management across related category investments across the group. Cost, quality & service, innovation, speed to market, fast roll-out and net working capital improvement are the most important business needs with different focus and prioritisation in the regions - Collaborate with the Indirect Procurement group in markets, to effectively deliver on specific projects (supplier and solution changes, identify and leveraging best practice, etc) - Drive change management in line with Reckitt culture - Consolidate the spend and manage the spend category holistically. Co-author a playbook, where relevant, with business partners internally - Work closely with business partners to understand needs, objectives, and priorities to optimise total cost, NWC, quality and service - Uses standard category management tools to organise and structure knowledge, develop objectives and measure against agreed KPIs - Design and implement sourcing strategies for identified sub-sections of the Global Category in order to achieve optimal supply base that will general competitive advantage - Identify, select, develop suppliers for the sub-section of the Category. Negotiate and contract with those identified suppliers - Prepare budget assumptions where applicable - Report in a timely and accurate manner on activities within the subsection of the Category and escalate to the right forum to gain support - Identify risks and opportunities involved in each sourcing process as well as across the sub-section of the Category **Equality**: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.
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