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Job Title
Job Title Global Category Manager - Corporate
Job Description
Job Description About our Global Category Manager – Corporate role
Procurement isn't just about saving costs; when done correctly Procurement is also a catalyst for optimising operations, building relationships and facilitating the seamless identification of products and services to help support an ever growing business.
This pivotal role requires a refined set of skills, including the ability to effectively influence and negotiate. You will be accountable for strategic advice and the procurement leadership of specific Corporate spend sub-categories across the Sage Group, which may include Consultancy, HR Services, and Colleague Benefits.
The Sage Group plc has pledged to achieve net zero emissions by 2040, and to halve its carbon emissions by 2030, as part of the Group’s ambitious new Sustainability and Society strategy, ‘Knocking Down Barriers’. Through this strategy Sage aims to tackle societal and economic inequality, supporting a new generation of diverse and sustainable businesses as well as playing its part in the race to net zero carbon. The Global Category Manager will support the embedding of Sage’s Sustainable Supply Chain Strategy as part of Sage’s overall net zero ambitions
What’s in it for you?
As an accomplished professional, you will have the opportunity to shape our organisations sourcing strategic both commercially and contractually fostering growth and maximising value.
As Subject Matter Expert, you’ll use you engaging style to create buy in with internal stakeholders, ensuring that suppliers are selected in line with company governance and creating the most competitive terms across the business.
You will also need to have a hunger for transforming the procurement "show up" for our stakeholders and removing barriers to streamline transactional activity to focus on truly strategic business partnering.
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Key Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities Summary of your day-to-day?
As the Global Category Manager - Corporate, you will be responsible for:
- Spend accountability for up to £50m pr annum
- In tandem, you will secure an optimal supplier base, diligently evaluating and selecting partners who align with our quality standards and deliver maximum value
- Your expertise in developing comprehensive category strategies that seamlessly align with our overarching company strategy, with a key focus on sustainability.
- Driving strategy implementation through education, selling, and influencing of the benefits to the wider business
- Negotiating and executing Master Service Agreements and Statements of Work in accordance with the overarching category strategies developed
- Implementing supplier performance and relationship management to ensure improved and sustained supplier performance
Minimum qualifications and know how:
• The gravitas and presence to influence the wider business and drive compliance through personality
• Ability to be effective in a global environment
• Good team player but also able to act autonomously
• Capable of articulating complex sets of information in an energising manner and building rapport at all levels
• Thorough knowledge and understanding across the key sub-category areas, seen as a Sourcing Subject Matter Expert within these sub-categories
• Ability to compute complex data/information and formulate sound commercial judgements
• Commercially savvy, and a strong negotiator
• Capable of devising stretching initiatives and formulating plans for teams to deliver
• Excellent planning/organisational skills and complex decision-making skills
• Sound understanding of project management principles and capacity to manage project milestones, timelines, resources, and costs;
• Sound logical, analytical, and quantitative skills
Dig deeper about who we are:
Who is Sage: https://www.sage.com/en-us/company/about-sage/
Life at Sage:https://www.sage.com/en-us/company/careers/
Our Values & Behaviors:https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=vt5JXf-Gwno&feature=youtu.be
How we make a difference:https://www.sage.com/en-us/company/sage-foundation/
Sage Business Cloud - SaaS for Every Business:https://www.sage.com/en-us/products/
Your benefits
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• Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
• Work away scheme for up to 10 weeks a year
• On-going training and professional development
• Paid 5 days yearly to volunteer through our Sage Foundation
• Flexible work patterns and hybrid working
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