Purchasing Category Manager - Employment, career opportunity in UK

Job Title:  Purchasing Category Manager
Job Type :   Permanent
Location:    Basingstoke
Start Date:    asap
Duration:    permanent
Salary:    £40,000 to £55,000
Ref No:    108504-VC1309-13
£40-55,000 + £4200 car & 20% bonus



STRATEGIC BUSINESS UNIT:  Supply Chain
REPORTING TO:  Group Procurement Director

Purpose of the Job:
The Category Manager will be accountable for all strategic sourcing of goods and/or services in the specific categories assigned to them for the whole Group. This role is responsible for critical complex categories managing procurement spend.

Dimensions (number reports and financial values):
Total spend will range from £10m to £30m
No direct line reports
Principal Internal relationships: Business key stakeholders including Senior Management Team, functional leads, technical subject matter experts, site management teams as well as Legal and Finance

Key Activities:
Strategic Sourcing
* Work with relevant business owners to understand the specific business requirements and their implications on the procurement cycle
* Operates within the marketplace in order to assess and proactively leverage its developments, trends and changes.
* Develop a sustainable, long term and cost effective sourcing strategy for the specific categories that supports the business in achieving its objectives, enables the business to leverage its buying power in the marketplace and delivers value-for-money.
* Communicates effectively the sourcing strategy to all relevant stakeholders in order to get their commitment and support while demonstrating the value it can bring.

Sourcing Execution
* Commercial strategy definition: define the most appropriate commercial strategy to deliver specific procurement initiatives in terms of requirement structure, supplier base, tools, technology and terms of reference.
* Options assessment: assess the supplier's responses in terms of total cost of ownership, challenge suppliers when appropriate, communicates effectively with business owners to identify benefits and/or issues.
* Supplier negotiation: negotiate commercial terms with suppliers in order to maximise value-for-money
* Contract definition: define robust contracts from a commercial, risk management and technical point of view
* Service level agreements development: develop performance focused SLA's and include them in the contracts

Supplier Relationship Management
* Manage key suppliers to ensure maximum value delivered. Key suppliers need to be managed as business partners in terms of:
o Delivery performance
o Service level agreement compliance
o Demand planning
o Quality assurance and audit
o Improvement opportunities
o Long term planning
o Operational excellence initiatives
* Contact future possible suppliers and continuously benchmark them against the existing supplier base.

Stakeholder Management
* Work with business owners to proactively anticipate issues and/or identify future opportunities
* Work with business owners to identify solutions and action plans to develop savings initiatives linked closely to the business objectives.
* Partner with Finance to ensure correct reporting of spend and savings data
* Communicate effectively savings and value delivered by procurement

Organisation Development
* Manage and develop less experienced procurement professionals in terms of know-how and competencies
* Develop best practice and design procurement tools and techniques
* Promote continuous improvement within the sourcing team and function through leadership, vision and team development

Qualifications and Experience:
* Graduate calibre
* Proven experience of successfully management a procurement /category management service, operating in a manufacturing environment. Your experience may be from one or more of the following listed categories, but this is not an exhaustive list:
o Engineering
o Raw Materials
o Logistics & Distribution
o Indirect Services
* A proven track record of influencing business owners in high value procurement projects in a commercial environment
* Knowledge and understanding of specific market dynamics and trends, including:
o Market drivers;
o Key players (supplier, customers);
o Regulation;
o Technology; and
o Overall PESTLE elements

Proven experience in the application of:
o Procurement tools and techniques;
o Value Analysis;
o Cost Engineering;
o Process Mapping;
o Tender Management (including designing effective Service Level Agreements); and
o Risk Management.
o Overall PESTLE elements

This vacancy is being advertised by NCR Purchasing & Supply (New Century Recruitment Ltd). The services advertised by NCR Purchasing & Supply are those of an Employment Agency.



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