Role: Category Manager - Directs (Chemicals)
Location: Peterborough
Hybrid Working: 1 day PW in Peterborough, 2-3 days a week visiting sites (East Anglia)
Salary: Up to £70k + package
Duration: 1 year FTC (very likely extended)
Excellent opportunity to join a £multi-bn industrial manufacturing company, with an expanding procurement team, making this a diverse and fascinating role that spans a range of specialisms, including food, energy and chemicals. The role is focused on procuring a range of industrial raw materials, such as chemicals, fluxes, limestone and lubricants.
You'll report to the Senior Category Manager for Directs and play a part in mentoring junior team members.
Responsibilities:
1. Implementation of project sourcing strategies and detailed category plans to deliver agreed objectives and targeted results.
2. Lead the commercial and contractual process with suppliers resulting in robust contractual frameworks
3. Plan, manage and deliver strategic and tactical negotiations with suppliers
4. Engagement and sponsorship with stakeholders to deliver objectives, offering challenge and support to stakeholders as required
5. Managing supplier relationships to ensure necessary contractual arrangements are constructed, negotiated and service level agreements are in place to allow appropriate performance management.
6. Supporting and developing the directs procurement team to increase performance and capability
7. Ensure procurement tools, systems and processes are kept up to date and are used to the full
8. Management of procurement risk and provision of expert market knowledge to support decision making in the business
Requirements:
9. Experience procuring directs, ideally including chemicals/industrial indirects, though not required
10. Successful delivery of category management, sourcing strategies and project delivery
11. Experience of e-procurement tools.
12. Analytically strong to interrogate data with well-developed presentation and communication skills.
13. Experienced negotiator and strong influential skills to obtain buy in and engagement.
14. Ability to coach or mentor other team members and stakeholders in British Sugar and the wider group.
15. Self-motivated, resilient and a team player.
If of interest, please apply ASAP or email geoff.hunt@1st-executive.com