Purpose: To deliver a Cost Base Reduction (CBR) committed to the Authority through the development of a cost-effective, commercially-driven supply base, and meets the requirements for Governance and availability. Main Duties & Responsibilities: - Capture and analyse data on the existing supply chain, the commercial markets and potential new entrants to the market. - Based on the data analysis, create and maintain strategy plans, working with all stakeholders to deliver the CBR and availability requirements. - Capture all documentation developed by Commodity, Category, and Acquisition and Contracts Management, required to support the tendering of the Category requirements. - Identify and enact Supplier Development opportunities that add value to the Authority, Supplier and Team Leidos Support Chain and which drive out cost. - Hold specific commodity expertise and manage categories that are key to their strengths. - Participate in routine cross-functional efforts within CSS. - Collaborating with all stakeholders for data gathering and analysis to update the Category Strategy - Develop and prepare commercial product specifications. - Develop and disseminate document packs that consolidate all the information for a specific category in order that the strategy can be enacted and tendered by Acquisition and Contract Management. - Conduct basic supplier assessment to ensure the suppliers proposed to Acquisition and Con...