Category Lead - Corporate and Professional Services | Real Estate - £80,000 - 93,000k per annum + 5.34% flex allowance + on target 20% bonus, competitive pension + benefits + hybrid working with amazing central London office, 50% of time in office and 50% working from home.
This is an exceptional opportunity to join a renowned and respected commercial organisation that manages a diverse portfolio of land and assets across the UK. This is a senior position managing a small team, setting up the procurement category strategy across professional, corporate and technology spend. Dealing with a high value spend, a key purpose will be to enhance the governance through the procurement cycle.
You will feel comfortable and confident in supporting and challenging stakeholders to ensure sourcing decisions represent best value for the Enterprise. The role will also influence and support a procurement transformation programme to create procurement best practice processes, technologies to improve user-experience and to provide better value.
What the role involves:
- Develop category strategies across corporate and professional services supplier spend and development
- Engaging early in the decision-cycle, understanding business needs and gaps, providing value and commercial opportunities
- Support the implementation of an improved Source to Pay (S2P) Unit 4 processes and technology, both within the procurement team and across the wider Enterprise
- Ensure governance per new sourcing process, which includes ensuring compliance to public sector procurement regulations and soon, new procurement act.
- Lead and develop a team of three Category Managers
The person we hope to find:
- Experience across Indirect Procurement and Category Management - corporate services, professional services and tech
- Experience across sourcing, governance and supplier management
- Some experiences across public sector, with some knowledge of PCR and comfortable in this environment
- Leadership and managing a team is crucial for this
- Strong stakeholder and commercial acumen
- Business Partnering approach, hands on and enthusiastic about driving change and improvement
If you're a Senior Category manager or strong indirect category management with team leadership experience, please apply today!