Location: Milton Keynes / Hybrid working
Working Hours: Monday to Friday (8.45am – 5pm)
Salary: From £40,000 per annum
Benefits
* 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
* Competitive pension
* Enhanced parental leave
* Eligibility for annual bonus scheme
* Access to a fantastic loan car scheme
* 4× basic salary life assurance
Role Overview
This role leads category strategy and sourcing activity for various direct and indirect categories. It combines strategic category ownership with hands‑on operational delivery, ensuring high‑quality procurement execution, strong commercial governance, and effective supplier performance management.
Core Responsibilities
* Own and deliver category strategies across diverse indirect spend categories, providing clear strategic direction alongside hands‑on sourcing execution.
* Lead end‑to‑end procurement activity across core and smaller categories, including RFx development, supplier evaluation, negotiation, contracting and onboarding.
* Provide procurement and commercial support to business initiatives and projects, ensuring sound sourcing approaches, risk management and value for money.
* Maintain strong commercial governance, ensuring compliance with procurement policies, delegated authority limits, contract management standards and audit requirements.
* Draft, review and negotiate contracts, ensuring appropriate commercial terms, risk allocation and compliance with internal standards.
* Provide day‑to‑day operational procurement support, resolving supplier issues, managing contract renewals, and supporting stakeholders with ongoing commercial needs.
* Manage a portfolio of smaller and tactical categories, applying proportionate sourcing approaches while maintaining control, visibility and value.
* Lead supplier relationship management, monitoring performance against KPIs and SLAs, addressing issues and driving continuous improvement and innovation.
* Partner with internal stakeholders to align category strategies to business priorities, challenge specifications and demand, and provide pragmatic commercial advice.
* Contribute to sustainability, compliance and ESG objectives across the supply base, embedding responsible sourcing principles into category strategies.
* Improve procurement engagement with the business by driving earlier involvement, clearer governance, standardised workflows and smoother sourcing cycles across multiple categories.
Qualifications
* Category Management expertise – a proven track record within Category Management.
* Strategic thinker – able to create short- and long-term strategy for the business.
* Solution orientated – seeks ways to aid the business to succeed.
* Excellent stakeholder engagement – navigates conversations and influences decisions with stakeholders throughout the business.
* Commercial acumen – able to understand business requirements and create understanding.
About Scania
Scania is dedicated to delivering exceptional products and services to our customers. The successful candidate will reflect our core values: customer first, respect, elimination of waste, responsibility and team spirit in all we do.
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