Job Title: Category Manager
Location: Trafford Council, Sale Waterside Centre, 1 Waterside, M33 7ZF
Salary range: £42,708 - £47,710
Trafford council is a Living Wage Employer.
Working Pattern: Full Time
Working hours: 36.25
We will offer flexibility where we can. If you are interested in a role, please speak to the recruiting manager about what flexibility they might consider.
Many of our colleagues can work from home for one or more days a week and/or they flex the hours they work. We call this SMART working, and it gives you the option to flex your days and hours so you can fit your work around your life and life around your work.
Contract type: Fixed Term Contract, 12 months
Application deadline: 24th November 2024
Interview date: 28th and 29th November 2024
Interview type: Teams
Due to internal movement, we now have an opening within the team for a Category Manager (Place).
We’re looking for commercially minded individuals to lead procurement activity and provide quality procurement advice to our customers across a wide range of subject areas.
The main priorities are detailed within the role profile.
We are asking candidates to submit their CV and a covering letter. Your CV must demonstrate experience which enables you to meet the role described and hit the ground running. The covering letter should detail how specific transferable skills enable you to meet the main priorities of the Role and the ‘About you’ description below.
Your style and approach will reflect STARs values and behaviours: you will be committed to continually learning & improving the way you do things to ensure effective outcomes; you will take ownership of your actions and strive to getting things right first time and learn from when things do go wrong; you will enjoy taking personal responsibility to resolve issues and change what you do and how you do it to make a difference.
You’ll also be able to demonstrate experience in leading procurement activity within the public sector context, working at pace when required, and be prepared to work across multiple clients and projects at any one time.
Your personality should reflect the Councils EPIC values and behaviours. You will:
* Empower staff to be confident to decisions through support, training and guidance
* Be People Centred by valuing all people within and external to STAR and will act with honesty and Integrity
* Be Inclusive by valuing and respecting the diversity and richness difference brings
* Collaborate through equality and working together to get things done.
About us:
Trafford Council and its partners in the public, private and third sectors have a Vision which sees us working together to close inequality gaps and maximise Trafford’s huge potential. Our vision: Trafford where all our residents, businesses and communities thrive.
To learn more about Trafford as a place to work visit and to view more about our awards and benefits please visit: Trafford - Benefits | www.inploi.com (greater.jobs)
Contact Details:
For an informal discussion about the role please contact Paul Atherton on 07876 957806 or email paul.atherton@star-procurement.gov.uk
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