Closing Date 2025-01-04 Category & Sourcing Manager Location: Hybrid working in Falmer or Durrington 2-3 days Perm/FTC: Permanent Hours: 37 hrs Salary: Up to £45,000 based on experience Southern Water are currently looking for an addition to our expanding Procurement team. The Category Management & Sourcing discipline strategically and proactively manages category spending and supply sourcing in alignment with value management strategies and demand profiles to optimise total cost of ownership. As the Category & Sourcing Manager you will develop and implement specific demand and category strategies and engage with internal customers to understand requirements, volume demands, and specifications. The Category Manager also supports on all associated commercial activity to achieve value creation and minimise total cost of ownership, including executing the full sourcing lifecycle and deliver against procurement and value management strategies. As part of this role, you will w ork with the Senior Category Manager as well as collaboratively with business leads to deliver category specific strategies, including sourcing and contracting. You will drive cost reduction through standardisation, aggregation of demand, and actions to minimise tail spend within the category and d rive continuous improvement translating external best practices, innovation, and ideas into actionable proposals and plans for the business, building them into category strategies. You will also m onitor operational performance and ensure compliance to policies, processes, and governance framework. To be considered for this role you will be confident in your written and verbal communication and presenting to a group, maintaining relationships both internally and externally and have excellent analytical, planning and negotiation skills and experience of working multiple large-scale projects. You will have in depth category experience in either engineering and construction or Asset Purchase and hire. As well as knowledge of UCR and ABC legislation. Any knowledge of the public procurement act or a CIPS qualification are highly desirable. If this is something you could see yourself doing, please send over your CV, if you feel you have more to say why not send us a cover letter letting us know why you are the right person for the job. We look forward to hearing from you. LI-Hybrid LI-HC1