Directs Category Manager

Key for this role UCR legislation and Legal stakeholder engagement

Category Management

• With the support of the Category Manager, work with Stakeholders to establish clear business needs, apply forward thinking skills to establish flexible long-term category strategies with value options & clear supplier performance criteria

• Partner effectively with stakeholders to become a trusted business partner

• Provide strategic direction, communicate goals, practices and processes of the Global Sourcing organization with respective business partners

• Analyse forecast trends and track category savings targets in support of Procurement and category team commitment and goals.

• Evaluate and apply the concept of total cost of ownership (TCO) and switching costs to support decision making

Commercial Negotiation

• Solid understanding of contractual terms & conditions and able to craft structured agreements with legal and stakeholder input

• Establish structured negotiation plans with clarity of desired outcomes, leveraging stakeholder input and support where appropriate

• Understanding of supplier's position, desired outcomes, and leverage points

Supplier Relationship Management

• Identifies critical suppliers and creates appropriate engagement plans to ensure our Supply Chain risk profile and inputs to continuous improvement are proactively managed

• Demonstrates a collaborative approach with supply base and develops integrated plans to drive appropriate value for business and customer requirements

• Builds appropriate supplier performance measurements (KPIs) into contractual frameworks

Systems and Analytics

• Ability to adapt to different ERP systems such as SAP, Tableau, Ariba, Spend Analytics

• Understands how to analyse large data sets and extract information for strategic decision making

About You

There will be a different emphasis on the skills required for each role but broadly we are looking for enthusiastic people who have the following attributes:

• Extensive direct procurement experience

• Understands that we are a global procurement organisation

• Have a passion for procurement and motivated to make a difference

• Proactive with a positive attitude and willing to teach more junior staff members

• Can navigate their own way through a complex organisation and effectively solve problems.

• Can confidently communicate, engage, and build strong working relationships with stakeholders at all levels.

• Have effective project management skills

• Can collate and organise data, analyse commercial issues and enjoy the detail of costs and contracts.