Senior Category Manager

4 weeks ago

Reading, Reading, United Kingdom eTeam Full time

Job Title: Senior Category Manager

Location: Aldermaston, UK

Job Type: Full-time contract, 18 month

Work Model: Hybrid ( 2-3 days on site per week, remainder WFH/Remote)

Key Accountabilities:


• Develop, implement and drive Category Strategy for a complex group of categories, balancing short and long-term objectives to meet business strategy and efficiencies (savings) in alignment with business stakeholders and leveraging market dynamics.


• Oversee the execution of the end to end strategic sourcing process for all complex and high val-ue Procurements within the categories in the group, to deliver as well as to anticipate business requirements and needs, always in compliance with Code of Conduct and Code of Business Eth-ics.


• Ensure Supplier Relationship Management for key suppliers who have a significant impact on Client business, with the objective of managing risk, managing performance and extracting more value from the supplier base.


• Develop and sign off Supplier Strategies with the objective of minimizing risk for Client and max-imizing value.


• Act as Sourcing Business Partner for certain areas of the business or Pillars: being accountable for the Sourcing contribution (including efficiencies and risk mitigation) from business oppor-tunity, to delivering on Stakeholder expectations and representing Supply Chain Management in the Stakeholder organisations.


• Use category expertise and external markets insights, to proactively propose alternative or in-novative 3rd party solutions to senior and executive level stakeholders to anticipate issues be-fore they arise.


• Develop the Category Team and drive a high-performance culture: secure competence devel-opment within the team, manage performance in accordance with clear goals and manage team motivation to support Supply Chain Management transformation.


• Drive Supply Chain Management transformation: continuously and consistently focus the team performance to delight stakeholders and improve Supply Chain Management profile as "Trust-ed Advisor" to the business.

Key Responsibilities:


• Consistently demonstrating positive behaviours in line with the company's environmental, sus-tainability, safety, health, security, quality and ethics standards.


• Develop, implement and drive Category Strategy to deliver cost effective category solutions and business models.


• Supplier base management and supplier classification (Preferred Supplier List – PSL), secur-ing competition in the supplier base.


• Implement ways of working according to Client Category Management Framework including the delivery of Category targets and KPI's for assigned group of spend categories.


• Business Intelligence, benchmarking and supplier market analysis and insight to support catego-ry development.


• The Principal Category Manager, with the Category Team, are responsible for securing and tracking cost reduction, contract management and continuity of Supply Chain.

Strategic Sourcing


• Prepare & execute the RFx process in collaboration with stakeholders including supplier evalua-tion and selection, supplier negotiations (costs and contract).

Contribute to the long-term business ensuring competitive initial cost and total cost develop-ment in the product and service life cycle and maintenance of the specific supplier contract for products and services.

Proactively develop alternative and/or innovative 3rd party solutions.

Supplier Relationship Management


• Suppliers segmented and managed (quality, performance, risk) in accordance with the Client Supplier Relationship Management Framework.


• Monitor and mitigate supplier risks (including CoC, Environmental & Health and Safety as well as dependency on Client and Client dependency on the supplier), make corrective action plans for the identified risks.


• Supplier Strategies for key suppliers within assigned group of spend categories.

Team and Line Management


• Manage units' performance, working towards Supply Chain targets, driving perfor-mance management, competence management, resources management and ensure execution of work.

Stakeholders Collaboration and Business Engagement


• Secure senior and executive stakeholders involvement and participation in category strategies, sourcing activities and supplier relationship management activities and share SCM category strategies, PSL, supplier performance etc…


• Sell the value of SCM to the stakeholder community and drive a proactive approach towards stakeholders with the aim or resolving issues before they arise or deliver additional value.


• Develop a Stakeholder related Sourcing strategy covering relevant categories involved, in order to secure optimized costs actions.

Top 3 Essential Evaluation Criteria

1. Demonstrable experience of high value procurement

2. Experience of developing strategies

3. Experience of leading on procurements

Essential:


• 5+ years demonstrable procurement experience


• Experience of high value procurement


• Experience of developing strategies


• Experience of leading on procurements


• Experience of setting up NEC contracts


• Leadership and People skills

Desirable:


• MCIPS or equivalent


• Utilities or general construction background would be beneficial.


• Public Sector experience preferred – not essential


• Procurement regulations experience


• Nuclear/Defence background or working in highly regulated area


• Experience of using Microsoft Office


• Experience of using Fusion /Oracle


• Jaggaer experience


• Experience uploading onto CAMS (Commercial Assurance Management System)

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