Category Manager - Central Government

Role: Category Manager REF 75530
Contract Length: 18 months
Location: Aldermaston - mostly remote for this role with the potential need to attend site / London once per week (Not likely to be every week)
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: Market Rate
Security Clearance: BPSS

Spinwell is recruiting for a Category Manager for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.

RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE CATEGORY MANAGER

• Consistently demonstrating positive behaviours in line with the company's environmental, sustainability, safety, health, security, quality and ethics standards.
• Category Management:
  • Develop, implement and drive Category Strategy to deliver cost effective category solutions and business models for assigned categories.
  • Supplier base management and supplier classification (Preferred Supplier List – PSL), securing 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, suppliers benchmark and market insight to support category development.
  • The Category Manager, with the sub-category Team, is 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 evaluation and selection, supplier negotiations (costs and contract).
  • Contribute to the long-term business ensuring competitive initial cost and total cost development in the product and service life cycle and maintenance of the specific supplier contract for products and services.
• 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.
• Stakeholders Collaboration:
  • Secure stakeholders involvement and participation in category strategies, sourcing activities and supplier relationship management activities and share SCM category strategies, PSL, supplier performance etc…

  SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE CATEGORY MANAGER

• Someone to support senior category managers (end to end major procurements)
• Implement and develop procurement strategies.
• End to end procurement process.
• Working as part of a team to work through the major procurement infrastructure projects (Smaller to medium)
• NEC experience would be preferrable.
• Strong stakeholder management skills at all levels
• In procurement rather than delivery space
• Infrastructure / Construction

If you are a Category Manager, apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!

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