Description
Role: Category Manager Indirect Spend
Reports to: Head of Procurement
Area: City of London
Salary: £50,000 + Benefits
My client, a blue chip financial in the City is seeking a professional, proactive Category Manager
Role Definition
Primary purpose of this role is to support the Head of Procurement in delivery of agreed objectives in line with the procurement strategy, providing a commercial procurement category management function for all indirect procurement across all spend categories with external suppliers.
Overall responsibilities
- Identify the category strategy and a rolling programme of areas to be addressed within the procurement category
- Establish and lead cross- functional teams to manage the development and implementation of the procurement category strategy and agree the strategy with the Head of Procurement and internal customer departments
- Deliver the procurement category strategy including sourcing activities which generate benefits and achieve financial savings targets through insight and analysis of category and sub categories areas, including:
- Analysis of procurement spend and supply base to establish suppliers per procurement category and sub category
- Analysis of supply markets to identify potential suppliers and market trends
- Identification of internal and external cost drivers in the categories
- Development of savings opportunities and benchmarking of industry standards and Practices to identify quick win opportunities.
- Preparation of pre tender and tender documents in conjunction with key user departments
- Use leading practice procurement tools to develop and implement the sourcing strategies including:
- Supply market positioning
- Supply base profiles
- Supplier assessment
- Supplier financial analysis
- Request For Information (RFI), Request For Proposal (RFP),
- Request for Quotation (RFQ)
- Service level agreements
- e Auctions
- Summary of quotations
- Cost analysis
- Objective decision making
- Ensure that the company's Sustainability policy is invoked within the entire Procurement process for the procurement category and sub categories
- Negotiate contractual agreements with suppliers to ensure that service, quality, added value, total cost, security of supply and the deployment of the suppliers capabilities in innovation are secured
- Manage and develop supplier relationships and ongoing negotiations, for the procurement category and sub categories, using leading practice procurement tools (such as cost trend analysis, price change analysis and supplier performance reviews) to deliver breakthrough performance in cost, service and quality; keep internal customers informed and involved in ongoing supplier management
- Assist with the development of new processes, procedures and solutions for the purchasing system and identify any category specific requirements
Knowledge, experience and skills required:
- Educated to Degree Level
- Recognised as a procurement professional
- Strong knowledge of the Seven Steps
- Experience of seeing projects through from conception to completion
- CIPS (Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply) qualified desirable
- In depth knowledge of procurement within their procurement category
- Excellent analytical skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Good influencing skills at senior levels to influence acceptance of a new way of working
- Project Management skills
- Excellent negotiating and influencing skills, at all levels, are essential.
- Good IT skills to include wide experience of word documents, Excel spreadsheets (including pivot tables and charts) and PowerPoint
- Excellent planning and organisational skills
- Experience of working to deliver a new Procurement strategy is desirable
- Significant previous procurement experience with responsibility for delivery of a procurement category strategy and procurement category benefits including financial savings.
- Demonstrated experience in the specific procurement category
- Experience of managing a procurement category in at least one blue chip organisation that has crossed functional and business boundaries.
- Experience of working with a fragmented user base in multiple locations.
- Experience of working in a complex environment with a high level of
uncertainty around predicted or future purchase requirements.
- Significant experience of supplier management