* Category Lead Manager
* Start date: Immediate
* Duration: 6 months
* £450 – £550 p/d (inside IR35)
* Hybrid working: Remote & 1 day based in Warwick
Our client is a telecommunications company that specialise in projects across rail sector. They currently require a Category Lead Manager to support their procurement team and managing categories of spend across their Rail Projects.
Key Objectives:
1. Accountable for managing categories of spend classed as Rail Projects and associated spend with a significant total annual spend of circa £30m.
2. Responsible to ensure appropriate use of corporate and functional processes and tools.
3. Responsible for management of internal and external stakeholders.
4. Responsible for the creation and implementation of the designated commercial strategies for Rail Projects
5. Responsible for the creation of strategies for H/M/L value and complex / non-complex categories
6. Responsible for all RFx activities, managing the sourcing process, negotiation and contracting activities for H/M/L value categories and complex / non-complex categories
7. Responsible for the evaluation of suppliers as part of supplier on-boarding process and implementation of i Procurement strategy category code management in line with Category strategy
8. Responsible for negotiation of flow-down terms for complex agreements
9. Responsible for on-going sup...