Role: Category Manager - SC
Contract Duration: 18 Months
Location: Reading area Up to 2 days per week onsite
Top 3 Evaluation Criteria:
1. 5+ years’ experience as a Category Manager
2. Good understanding of Category Methodologies
3. Contract Management
Key Responsibilities:
* Consistently demonstrating positive behaviours in line with the company's environmental, sustainability, safety, health, security, quality and ethics standards.
* Category Management: Develop, implement and drive Category Strategy to deliver cost effective category solutions and business models for assigned categories.
* Supplier base management and supplier classification (Preferred Supplier List – PSL), securing competition in the supplier base.
* Implement ways of working according to CLIENT Category Management Framework including the delivery of Category targets and KPI’s for assigned group of spend categories.
* Business Intelligence, suppliers benchmark and market insight to support category development.
* The Category Manager, with the sub-category Team, is responsible for securing and tracking cost reduction, contract management and continuity of Supply Chain.
* Strategic Sourcing: Prepare & execute the RFx process in collaboration with stakeholders including supplier evaluation and selection, supplier negotiations (costs and contract).
* Contribute to the long-term business ensuring competitive initial cost and total cost development in the product and service life cycle and maintenance of the specific supplier contract for products and services.
* Suppliers segmented and managed (quality, performance, risk) in accordance with the CLIENT Supplier Relationship Management Framework.
* Monitor and mitigate supplier risks (including CoC, Environmental & Health and Safety as well as dependency on CLIENT and CLIENT dependency on the supplier), make corrective action plans for the identified risks.
* Supplier Strategies for key suppliers within assigned group of spend categories.
* Stakeholders Collaboration: Secure stakeholders involvement and participation in category strategies, sourcing activities and supplier relationship management activities and share SCM category strategies, PSL, supplier performance etc...
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Contract
Job function
Supply Chain
Industries
Defense and Space Manufacturing
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