Global Category Manager

16 hours ago

Montrose, United Kingdom Undisclosed Full time

Global Category Manager - Capital Construction & Engineering Services

ASAP Start

End of June 2025

Location: Brentford, Stevenage, Ware, Barnard Castle, Montrose, Irvine or Worthing - required to be on site 2 days a week at any of the above locations

£614p/d max via Umbrella


Role Brief:

  • Define & deliver optimised Capital Procurement & Contract strategies for UK Capital Projects within Pharma portfolio; dealing with complex sourcing, logistics and quality issues in a complex, fast paced and challenging environment.
  • Ensure successful project delivery (safety, cost, quality, time) against business case, customer requirements, compliance requirements and total cost of ownership.
  • Effectively manage stakeholder relationships with internal customers and external suppliers.
  • Business partner for regional site capex project managers.
  • Capex categories: Professional Services (Engineering Offices) and Trade Contractors.


Responsibilities:

Maximize the delivery of Capital Projects


  • Champion the project safety culture, behaviours, and engagement activities.
  • Act as project procurement partner for site Capital Projects.
  • Provide Work Package sourcing support for Category owners (as per Ariba Guided Buying).
  • Secure buy in and introduction of Procurement at the early project stage to define best contracting and procurement strategies considering project triggers, constraints and risks.
  • Accountability for defining and executing robust contracting and procurement strategies (e.g. EPCM, EPC, IPD).
  • Work Package sourcing in line with global category strategies.
  • Accountability for Procurement and Contracts performance during project execution (e.g. steering attendance, contract and performance management, change and claim management, contract close-out).
  • Sharing of supplier performance data with other Category Managers and being supported by the same.
  • Execute Supplier Relationship Management with main contractors and conduct regular business reviews with senior management to ensure our clients requirements are met, robust ongoing performance evaluation, with a key focus on Continuous Improvement
  • Facilitate collaborative working relationships that promote generation and sharing of ideas and innovation that challenge status quo, drives efficiencies and reduces waste, time and cost.


Sourcing and Implementation of all CCES categories in the Region


  1. CCES categories: Professional Services (Engineering, Procurement, Construction Management, Project Controls and Project Management); Trades (Civil, Structural & Architectural (CSA) Mechanical & Piping (M&P), Electrical, Control & Instrumentation (EC&I).
  2. As per category strategy and strategic options.
  3. Source: execute robust, rigorous, competitive tendering and award process aligned with Project Management Framework.
  4. Implement: operational integration with suppliers, execute strategy.
  5. Supplier Relationship Management (performance management).


Required Experience & Knowledge


  • 6-10 years Capital Construction & Engineering experience mandatory.
  • 6-10 years experience of procuring Professional Services (i.e., design, engineering, and project delivery consultants) and Trade packages within complex, multistage project delivery model (Front End & Execution) e.g., FEED + EPCm.
  • Advanced understanding of contractual risk allocation across delivery models (i.e, EPCM, EPC, IPD).
  • Advanced understanding of Categories present within capital projects: ie., Professional Services, Civil, Structural & Architectural, Electrical, Control & Instrumentation, Automation, Mechanical & Piping, Process equipment.
  • Experience of working with and drafting standard form contract agreements – FIDIC, NEC, IChemE; NEC preferred.
  • Experience of working with Lump Sum, Cost Plus, Re-measurable & Target Cost models.
  • Good People management both downward and upward.
  • Good project management skills.
  • Extensive experience across key procurement processes:
  • Category strategy and category management.
  • Market analysis.
  • RFx.
  • Negotiation.
  • Contract Drafting & Management.
  • Supplier Performance Evaluation & Supplier Relationship Management.
  • Project management of full end-to-end sourcing process on defined purchasing categories.
  • Ability to influence stakeholder behaviors in a changing/evolving environment.
  • Ability to leverage past experience and industry knowledge to continuously motivate change both inside & outside area of direct responsibilities.
  • Strong analytical skills, ability to extract key information from complex datasets.

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