Senior Category Manager
Salary: £250 - £500 per day depending on experience
Full Time – Hybrid
Job purpose:
* To lead and deliver high quality, innovative and intelligence led category management across a range of spend area, to support the transformation of Procurement to a category management approach Oldham Council.
* To build strong working relationships with senior service colleagues, commissioners category teams, contract managers, suppliers and external partners. To work in partnership with colleagues in Oldham Council as directed by the Head of Service.
* To lead and deliver high value category procurement exercises, which secure the goods, works and services that most appropriately identify the addressed needs of our customers, residents and users whilst ensuring value for money, compliance with relevant policy and procurement legislation and generating cashable and non-cashable efficiencies throughout the life of our contracts.
* To provide commercial and market intelligence to internal customers to support strategic planning and project delivery.
* To be fully engaged and embedded within a specific service area of the council and play a proactive role in developing a commercial strategy to meet the needs of that Directorate.
Key skills:
1. To manage a range of procurements that are uniquely c...