I am currently recruiting for a Procurement Category Specialist for a Private utility company based in Worthing. This is a really exciting opportunity to join an ever-growing team assisting the management of indirects, through a transformational period.

Responsibilities:

• Work with the Procurement Category Manager to support on the delivery of procurement category strategies and develop and implement sub-category strategies
• Gather and collate customer requirements, volume demands, and specifications, feeding back to Category Manager and Senior Category Manager to inform the development of category strategy
• Gather data on category/sub-category spend, including commodity pricing and spend data, and perform initial analysis to share with Category Manager
• Seek cost reductions through driving aggregation and standardisation, and identifying opportunities to reduce spot buys / tail spend.

Person Specification:

• Strong General Indirects buying experience, with a preference for Fleet, FM & Business Process Outsourcing.
• Proven experience of successful implementation of category/sub-category strategies.
• strong stakeholder management skills and experience.
• Ideally degree qualified.

Next Steps:

I will be sending an initial shortlist to our client shortly. For confidential consideration please apply or email an up to date CV to harry.creighton@1st-executive.com