Description
Category Manager
Location: Oxford
Pay Rate: £ per day
We have a fantastic opportunity for an interim Category Manager to join a well known organisation based in Oxford. This role is on a contract based for an initial 3 months with the possibility of long term extensions.
Key Skills & Experience:
- Experience of collaborative procurement: uses a range of approaches to effectively influence internal customers.
- Critical information gathering: actively assesses relevance of information and can leave behind additional information for the sake of clarity.
- Demonstrable negotiation skills to operate internally and externally.
- High level of numeracy, including cost analysis, commercial management & value engineering.
- Contracting: writing & reading commercial documents and developing framework agreements.
Key responsibilities:
- Assessing current strategies, cost data and commodity profiles and business needs in order to convert gathered intelligence into a proposed strategy to leverage best possible value for assigned categories.
- Taking ownership of assigned categories, engaging the customer in order to provide the major influence on strategy direction and delivering category benefits.
- Leading change in introducing and embedding assigned categories within a challenging environment across.
- Drives cost reduction, measures and reviews performance and implements continuous performance improvement.
- To facilitate the delivery of contractual arrangements.
- Using knowledge gained and commercial awareness to embed a category management approach.
- To support the business in acting as a change agent for assigned categories including driving relationships, preparing papers and chairing meetings, designing and delivering training solutions and presentations to both internal and external stakeholders.
To apply for this position please use the 'Apply Online' link below or contact Joe Donnelly (see below)