Senior Category Manager

Description:

Talent Drive are pleased to be supporting a growing energy organisation based in Sussex who are looking to welcome an experience Senior Category Manager in Capital delivery, Engineering & Construction.

You will manage the development and implementation of robust category and sourcing strategies for a specified range of categories, driving value and minimising total cost of ownership.

This organisation believes in positive work life balance and offers a hybrid working model where you will be required in the office 3 days a week in Sussex and the rest will be remote.

Requirements:

• Experience of Construction or Capital Procurement.
• Experience working with UCR or a regulated procurement environment.
• Strategic leader.
• Full end to end procurement process experience.
• Excellent contract management.
• Soft skills to manage conflict resolution and objection handling using a range of approaches to influence key stakeholders across all levels.
• Confidence in leading a strategic purchasing team within a cross functional business.
• Have significant experience working with leading-practice tools, techniques and processes covering category strategy development.
• Project management capabilities.
• Relevant qualifications (e.g. CIPS or relevant degree)