Category Manager

2 weeks ago


Slough UK, Berkshire, United Kingdom Barclay Meade Full time

Assist in developing regional category strategies in alignment with internal stakeholders to drive value throughout the organisation. Responsible for executing the agreed upon strategies.

• Know and help evaluate potential suppliers of each category to assist in developing category strategies.

• Involvement in the on-going risk mitigation process of annual rating of suppliers and agreeing on new raw material projects that mitigate the associated risk. Execute the development plans for each key supplier to improve their risk profile.

• Initiate savings by utilizing various strategies such as volume leverage, supplier concentration as well as negotiating prices and terms.

• Foster and maintain collaborative long-term partnerships with suppliers to improve total cost of ownership while reducing risk. Know the entire supply stream (tertiary suppliers).

• Support the creation, analysis, and reporting of raw material budgets, reforecasts, PPV reports.

• Monitor key raw material markets, understand underlying drivers of those markets.

• Evaluate supplier performance against pre-determined metrics for OTIF, quality, price, innovation, cost savings and risk profiles.

• Ensure all procurement activities are lawful, ethical and follow the companies Procurement policies.



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