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Our market leading client is looking for a Category Lead who has relevant Financial Services experience You will have:
- Good knowledge of procurement (public and/or private sector) which is relevant to the Financial Services category in particular in relation to Payment Cards, Fuel Cards and Merchant Acquiring. A high degree of market awareness, with demonstrable experience of innovative approaches to procuring services and of managing complex (and high value) commercial arrangements.
- Technical proficiency within Merchant Acceptance and Fuel Cards areas; sufficient to act as an intelligent customer in dealings with suppliers and sufficient to engage in meaningful, challenging conversations with customers.
- Well developed analytical, organisational and problem solving skills. Uses information to ensure the evidence base for client strategy and work is open to critical challenge and inspires the confidence of stakeholders
- Ability to think broadly about end to end procurement and to optimise the end to end service within the category.
- Outstanding stakeholder management skills, including the ability to engage and influence in complex customer and supplier environments An excellent communicator, with consultative selling skills and the gravitas to build credible peer relationships with decision makers
- Strong numeracy skills with the ability to confidently handle numbers and/or undertake complex statistical analysis
- Proven Project Management skills
