Catagory Officer - Employment, career opportunity in uk

Job Title:    Catagory Officer
Job Type:    Permanent
Location:    Camberley
Deadline:   9th Sept 2013
Salary:    Up to £28,000 depending on experience
Start Date:    ASAP
Duration:    Permanent job
Reference:    168086-PRO-01781

Our client is looking to recruit a Category Officer based in Camberley. The overall objective of the Group Procurement department is to put in place common product and service portfolios that complement their brand and local presence, ensuring they buy the right thing, at the right cost, under the right terms, all based on common, simple automated procedures.

Their principle objective is to deliver a single managed and controlled supply base globally where key expenditure is leveraged and suppliers are held accountable for their performance.
The Procurement team is structured around 'category experts' who have the deep knowledge of their categories that is necessary to extract cost and maximize value.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

Key Responsibilities

The Category Officer will support procurement activity related to new product introduction supporting the Innovation function whilst working within the procurement team. In particular this role will own and understand the cost build of the products that they have and will develop in conjunction with their supplier base, support the Innovation team in developing cost reduction through value engineering, and monitor the cost variation of development work due to specification change. This role is seen as a key interface between the Procurement and Innovation teams and would lead to further responsibility within Group Procurement

Specific Responsibilities:

- Maintaining detailed cost analysis of products
- Supporting cost reduction projects
- Interaction with stakeholders across the Group to agree implementation actions and deliver results.
- Support the Category Manager through:
o Analysis of product spend data to identify critical suppliers and cost change impact.
o Market research to keep up to date on changing product trends, commodity price movements and legislative requirements.
o Rationalising the vendor and product base to reduce complexity, and deliver improvement opportunities.
o Working with the appropriate stakeholders as defined by the Global Category Manager`s governance models, collate key supplier and contract performance measurement data to mitigate risk and drive continuous improvement.
- Coordination with allocated suppliers to drive quality standards, adherence to product specifications, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Making full use of technology such as e-procurement tools and processes.

The Successful Candidate will be:

- Degree qualified with relevant work experience or possess other relevant post-graduate business qualifications (desirable). The Company will encourage development of core procurement skills.

Skills & Experience

Essential

- Capability to understand and present complex data.
- Highly proficient user of all tools within the Microsoft Office suite (or similar) in particular MS Excel.
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
- Excellent written and spoken English.
- Ability to communicate across cultures with a global supplier base

Desirable

- Understanding of manufacturing processes, controls & costs.
- Awareness` of Quality processes and accreditation.

In return you will receive a salary of £28.000 depending on experience. If you are interested in this vacancy please email your details via the link.

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