Strategic Category Lead
Location: Worcester
Contract Type: Contract
Rate: £400 per day PAYE or £526 per day limited paid via umbrella company inside IR35
Our client is looking for an experienced Strategic Category Lead. The role will be based within our commercial team and focusing on providing support across a portfolio of construction and capital delivery projects. Candidates must have demonstrable experience working within local government or a similar public sector environment.
Key Requirements
* Proven experience in a commercial or quantity surveying role within local government.
* Strong background supporting construction and infrastructure projects, including capital programmes.
* Experience of public sector procurement routes and contract management frameworks.
* Ability to provide commercial advice, cost control, and risk management across multiple projects.
* Strong stakeholder management skills, working with internal services and external partners.
* Availability to start as soon as possible.
Responsibilities and Experience
* Substantial experience of providing procurement expertise to successfully source requirements and secure contracts for customers and the Commercial Team or similar using Category Management principles.
* Significant experience in the use of communication plans to enhance procurement and supply chain management.
* Substantial experience of developing and implementing effective supply contracts.
* Significant experience of contributing to the development of the supply chain management strategy on inputs such as cost, quality, business risk, to meet corporate objectives.
* Substantial experience in medium to large multi-function organisations, leading and managing procurement projects with large budgets.
* Substantial experience in the use of contracting options for major programmes, projects and complex procurements such as engineering procurement and construction (EPC), design and build, design/build/finance/operate, fixed price, cost plus, time and materials, unit pricing.
* Significant experience of writing reports, including business cases, for a range of audiences.
* Proactively manage and develop procurement staff, especially through periods of change, to achieve agreed outcomes and sustainable improvements.
* Significant experience of using value added activities such as reducing costs, improving quality, delivery reliability, innovation and sustainability in major procurement programmes and projects.
* Demonstrable evidence of translating strategic procurement objectives into operational category plans and developing and successfully implementing category plans.
* Effectively led procurement projects as part of a multi-discipline team.
* Substantial experience in interrogating procurement management information to develop appropriate and effective procurement strategies with demonstrable benefits.
* Significant experience in using e‑Sourcing systems and tools.
* Substantial experience of deploying effective strategic supplier relationship management skills.
* Used project management techniques and operated within a performance‑management framework.
* Substantial experience of evaluating the implications of regulatory requirements such as price and service controls exercised by industry regulators and international bodies.
Contract Details
Initial contract length will be six months, with the potential for extension subject to business need. Ideally, we would like someone who can attend the office at least one day per week.
EEO Statement
Colbern Limited, along with our clients, are an equal opportunities employer.
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