Procurement Category Manager - Property, £80k + bonus
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Location
London, England
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Sector:
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Job type:
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Salary:
£70000 - £80000 per annum + + competitive benefits
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Contact:
Geoff Hunt
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Contact email:
geoff.hunt@1st-executive.com
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Salary high:
80000
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Salary low:
70000
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Job ref:
14780-120521_1620840098
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Published:
almost 3 years ago
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Expiry date:
2021-06-11
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Startdate:
ASAP
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Consultant:
ConsultantDrop
Role: Category Manager - Procurement
Location: London or Leicester, some flexible working
Salary: £70-80k + 25% bonus
Fantastic opportunity to join one of the leading retailers.
Highly experienced Procurement and Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) professional with a proven track record in the Property Category required to join this iconic brand.
Role Responsibilities
- Design, Develop and implement the Procurement strategy for the required category to meet business requirements, this must align with the overall Procurement Strategy to facilitate Procurement Centre of Excellence (CoE) establishing a business partnership model across the functions to agree sourcing strategies, to help transform Procurement across all areas
- Responsible for structured engagement with all required functions to ensure that all contracts have suitable cover and protection, meet the requirements of the business and deliver expected value
- Identification and realisation and reporting of cost-saving and waste-reduction opportunities, including managing demand to identify cost actions
- Supporting the Head of Procurement to ensure companywide purchasing requirements and contract management
- Conduct/support senior level negotiations and implement appropriate tactics to achieve a favourable outcome
- Responsible for conducting and leading regular reviews of the spend categories through benchmarking, rationalisation and aggregation opportunities
- Define and Implement the Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) strategy for the category
- Identify the relevant business leads and agree appropriate SRM supplier segmentation for the category
Experience
- You must have proven track record of delivery in Procurement Category management in the Property Category in a fast paced service environment.
- Proven track record of Supplier Relationship Management (SRM)
- Strong stakeholder management
- Experienced people manager
- Strong influencer
- Effective supplier performance manager
- Senior level negotiator of contracts with program and project management experience
- Proven success of purchasing for internal customers
Personal Attributes/ Behavioural Skills
- Strong leadership abilities to effectively influence and manage internal and external senior leaders
- Excellent negotiation skills
- Excellent communication, reporting and interpersonal skills
- Analytical skills
- Coaching and influencing
- Highly team oriented
The client is looking to interview asap therefore if interested in further detail and a chat about the role please send your cv to geoff.hunt@1st-executive.com