Group Procurement Category Manager
Butler Rose
- Stevenage, Hertfordshire
- £65,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Work with your customers as a business partner to understand expectations for the category and develop a keen understanding of the needs for mid term systems development and production.
- Develop an extensive knowledge of your supplier market and handle market risks and opportunities to support Client business.
- Assess the current performance of the category, identifying and addressing the gaps with the business needs and performance expectations.
- Develop your category strategy and a full strategic execution plan to achieve the objectives of this category, gaining key collaborator sign off.
- Source new products and own the prospection, evaluation and approval of new suppliers.
- Negotiate and coordinate the execution of frame contracts with suppliers.
- Support the buyers to run the competitions, negotiations in conformance with the strategy and to deliver optimum value for the Business
- Be responsible for the supplier relationship to ensure their capability to fulfil the forecast demand and to improve on Time, on Cost, on Quality performance.
- Lead the supplier risks and the mitigation actions plan to support the Client roadmap.
- Support procurement cohesion across Client Group
- Ideally a CIPS qualified procurement professional with experience of direct procurement in high technology industrial companies.
- Previous experience of working collaboratively with international teams is a bonus.
- You will have previous experience of delivering a procurement category strategy and be able to work in partnership with colleagues and supplies to deliver results.
- Bonus of up to 21% of base salary
- Pension of maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
- Annual salary review
- 25 days annual leave (plus holiday purchase)
- Fantastic site facilities, including subsidised meals, free car parking and more
- Excellent career progression and development opportunities
Butler Rose Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.