Senior Category Manager

A well-known Poole brand require a Senior Category Manager. Applicants need strategic, category focused procurement expertise, stakeholder partnering skills, and the ability to drive change across the function.The Senior Category Manager will be responsible for leading strategic procurement activities across the Engineering & Manufacturing category. This will include a wide remit of technical services and engineered / manufactured parts and components (valves, motors, engines, hydraulics, fabrications, electronics, composites etc. ) Previous exposure to this supplier set, is not a pre-requisite but the ability to develop strategic category plans, is 100% required.The Senior Category Manager will have two direct reports who will support the implementation of procurement and category strategies.This is an exciting period of growth and transformation of the Procurement function and the Senior Category Manager will have opportunity to support the implementation of a new ERP system, Procurement Catalogues and E-Procurement tools.Specific duties of the Senior Category Manager include:Supply market intelligence, tendering, negotiation, supplier selection/de-selection activitiesServe as Procurement Business Partner to relevant stakeholder community and partner with themPost-signature SRM and Contract Management activities across Engineering & Manufacturing supplier baseCollaboration with Procurement Operations team to make best use of procurement dataContribute to development of procurement function - people, processes, policies etc.Senior Category Manager applicants should meet the following criteria:Ability to develop Category Strategies and/or a proven track record in Category ManagementStrategic procurement toolkit - negotiation, supplier relationship management and developmentAbility to support a Procurement function embarking on a period of change and growthKnowledge of latest E-Procurement, Procurement Systems, P2P and ERP technologyComfortable being present in Poole c2 times p/week
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