Role: Senior Category Manager REF 100623
Contract Length: 8 months
Location: Hybrid/Reading - 2-3 days on site as required for business needs
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: Market Rate
Security Clearance: SC requested
Spinwell is recruiting for a Senior Category Manager for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE SENIOR CATEGORY MANAGER
- Consistently demonstrating positive behaviours in line with the company's environmental, sustainability, safety, health, security, quality and ethics standards.
- Category Management Drive and implement Category Strategy to deliver cost effective category solutions and business models.
- 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, benchmark and market insight to support category development.
- The Senior Category Manager, with the sub-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 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.
- Contract Management Prepare and execute a Contract which is appropriate to the scope, value and risk outlined in the sourcing strategy, ensuring all relevant stakeholders have contributed and approved as appropriate.
- Administer the Contract in accordance with all of the terms and conditions ensuring contract compliance.
- Ensure appropriate management of commercial risks, forecast spend and change impacts with key stakeholders.
- 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 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 SENIOR CATEGORY MANAGER
- Delivering a procurement project approximately from needs analysis up to contract award
- Public sector procurement experience (5 years plus)
- Defence/nuclear aerospace background
- FM/works experience is essential
- Some experience/a good understanding of NEC from a procurement point of view would be beneficial
- Need someone who has experience of delivering and leading procurements
If you are a Senior Category Manager, apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!
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