Job Description
Indirects Category Manager
Permanent
Maidenhead
Hybrid - 2 days in the office
Job Purpose
Reporting into the Head of Indirects, you will have responsibility for multiple commodities including but not limited to H&S, property, security and environmental spend areas, sourcing activities for the Indirects contracts across multiple areas of the Retail and Digital business.
You will be responsible for developing the category sourcing strategy to capture real savings through pooling company-wide purchasing volumes, negotiating Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) contracts with suppliers and leading other TCO cost reduction initiatives
You should be able to take a holistic view of your category and have the ability to make improvements and develop flexible and creative solutions to support business strategies and the Support Office and Operational senior leadership team.
As part of this multi-disciplined role you will need to challenge and influence senior stakeholders within the business to ensure value for money in the Group's external spend and deliver real cost savings to the bottom line supporting the profitability of the business.
Responsibilities
Strategy development
1. Develop effective procurement, cost reduction strategies ...