Category Lead

Job title: Category Lead
Location: Warwick/Hybrid
Duration: 6 months initially
Adecco is an employment consultancy. We put expertise, energy, and enthusiasm into improving everyone's chance of being part of the workplace. We respect and appreciate people of all ethnicities, generations, religious beliefs, sexual orientations, gender identities, and more. We do this by showcasing their talents, skills, and unique experience in an inclusive environment that helps them thrive.
The role:
Working as a Senior Category Lead you will support the business and be responsible for leading high value, high risk Strategic Sourcing Events and Category Strategies for construction projects that are critical to the business. This will involve engaging and building strong working relationships with stakeholders to identify business needs and then ensuring we understand the supply chains so we can offer the best solutions.
Responsibilities:
� Developing compelling category strategies that deliver the ambition.
� Developing detailed commercial understanding and value opportunities.
� Ownership and delivery of end-to-end strategic sourcing events within a portfolio.
� Forming dynamic teams with stakeholders and contract managers to drive best possible solutions.
� Building collaborative relationships with the supply chain and identifying new supply markets.
� Scoping, delivering and executing robust fit for purpose contractual agreements.
Requirements:
� Comprehensive experience in leading the development of category or sourcing strategies and management of tendering events, for complex, high value construction projects ideally.
� Can confidently communicate, engage, and build strong working relationships with stakeholders at all levels.
� Effective project management skills.
� Can collate and organise data, analyse commercial issues and bring insight to the detail of costs and contracts.
� Can navigate their own way through a complex organisation and effectively solve problems.
� Are proactive with a positive attitude and desire to learn.
� Demonstrate role model behaviours by evidencing 'finding a better way', 'doing the right thing' and 'making it happen' values.
� Have a passion for enabling an affordable net zero and are motivated to make a difference.
� Experience of FIDIC or NEC4 contracts (preferred)
� Experience of public procurement regulations - UCR, PCR (preferred)
� Achievement of a CIPS qualification or working towards is advantageous.
Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered.
Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you accordingly.