This role is Inside IR35.
Clearance: DV
Contract Length: 15 months
Location: Reading area, Hybrid – on average 1-2 days a week on site. Some weeks more, some less, as required for needs of business. Supplier site visits sometimes required, across the UK, but usually in southeast. Travel would be paid for these, and they would count towards onsite attendance days.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Consistently demonstrating positive behaviours in line with the company's environmental, sustainability, safety, health, security, quality, and ethics standards.
2. Category Management: Drive and implement Category Strategy to deliver cost-effective category solutions and business models.
3. Supplier base management and supplier classification (Preferred Supplier List – PSL), securing competition in the supplier base.
4. Implement ways of working according to the Category Management Framework including the delivery of Category targets and KPI’s for assigned group of spend categories.
5. Business Intelligence, benchmark, and market insight to support category development.
6. The Senior Category Manager, with the sub-category Team, are responsible for securing and tracking cost reduction, contract management, and continuity of Supply Chain.
7. Strategic Sourcing: Prepare & execute the RFx process in collaboration with stakeholders including supplier evaluation and selection, supplier negotiations (costs and contract).
Job Description:
1. Task Managing (not line managing)
2. Developing sourcing strategies for 3 programmes:
1. Accountable for developing the sourcing strategies (the product)
2. Strategy
3. Contracting model
4. Performance regime
3. Identifying the right commercial product to go out to the commercial chain.
4. How to go out to market to source
5. Infrastructure
6. Leading the team
7. Working with procurement team
8. People Management
Ideal to see in CVs:
Experience with Alliance Structures or possible setting up collaborative supply chain arrangements – which is a big focus of the hybrid model being looked at with c. 40% internally delivered and 60% specialist supply chain support for the LT strategy. From delivering the business case and running a full procurement process July 2025-July 2026.
Top 2 Essential Evaluation Criteria:
1. Strong Commercial Business Acumen
2. Public sector End-to-end Procurement experience
Essential:
1. Public sector End-to-end Procurement experience
2. Proven sourcing strategy experience
3. Experience of end-to-end procurement lifecycle
4. A Procurement specialist with strong category management experience.
5. Strong supplier engagement skills
6. Stakeholder Management skills.
7. Has worked with stakeholders to clearly define requirements
8. Worked on Large scale Commercial contracts
9. Diverse category experience
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