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 work 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 drive 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 monitor 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 on 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.
Interested in the role?
We reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications, so if you are interested in the position please do send your application over today to ensure consideration.
Every Body Welcome
We value diversity and are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require any reasonable adjustments to facilitate your participation in the recruitment process, please do not hesitate to let us know. We are dedicated to ensuring that all candidates have an equal opportunity to showcase their skills and experience.
We succeed together
Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, because delivering water for life is our core purpose. To achieve this, we need 24/7 support in place to resolve incidents quickly and efficiently. All our employees understand the importance of out-of-hours incident support – because when problems appear, fixing them is our top priority. That’s why our people join together and support when and however needed to make sure our customers get the service they deserve. Joining the Southern Water family means you’ll become part of our incident support team. During your interview, your manager will speak to you about any incident support rotas that apply to your position.
* Company and performance-related bonus
* Generous pension with up to 11% company contribution
* Life assurance payment equal to four times your annual salary
* Health benefits through a Cash Plan
* Two paid community volunteering days a year
* 25 days annual holiday
* Occupational health service
* Perkbox benefits offering discounts and savings on several products and experiences
* Study support may be available for job-related qualifications
* We offer competitive maternity leave and flexible return to work options
Need flexibility in your work?
Does this opportunity excite you but you’re not 100% sure if you meet all the requirements for the role? Or are you concerned that ‘normal’ office hours aren’t possible given your personal circumstances? Whilst we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we’ll try to find a practical solution. So why not engage with us and find out more about this role?
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