Description
My Client, a market leading Private Health insitution is looking for a PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CATEGORY MANAGER.Rate: £450+ LOCATION: LONDON START: ASAP
Job Purpose:
To support the UK Market Unit Procurement vision to lead the delivery of the market strategy, governance, and policies, and delivering significant value through market specific strategic sourcing initiatives and supplier relationship management.
The Category Manager is responsible for developing, implementing and delivering the Category strategy for their specific area.
This is a senior commercial role that will lead and develop UK Market Unit sourcing initiatives for their category, providing category expertise to focus on strategic sourcing, content expertise and value delivery (price and total cost of ownership), whilst actively managing significant risk and issues with suppliers.
As a senior member of the team this role will support Category Specialists to develop, implement and communicate strategic sourcing strategies.
Accountabilities and Activities:
The Category Manager is accountable for their specific category, with responsibility for total UK expenditure in their area to ensure products and services are sourced competitively and cost effectively in order to meet and enhance the businesses' requirements.
The job holder will be accountable for indentifying and delivering multiple cost saving initiatives in order to achieve individual and Department targets
The role requires the individual to lead supplier selection and qualification and manage relationships with key suppliers using contemporary supplier relationship management techniques (including supplier development and measurement). Sthree UK is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.