Role: Senior Category Manager (Physical Security)
Salary/Rate: £70-77.20 per hr outside IR35
Location: Reading 3x pw
Contract Duration: 9-months
We are currently looking for a Senior Category Manager for our government client.
This Senior Category Manager role is hybrid, based between 3 days per week on site in Reading, and the remainder of the week working remotely. There is no further flexibility with expected time on site, or the office location.
The contract for this Senior Category Manager position is for 9-months, with potential to extend, operating outside IR35.
Security Clearance: Security Check ("SC Clearance") + sole UK national
This role is outside IR35.
Essential Skills / Experience required:
- Physical security experience - working to NPSA catalogue standards
- Public sector experience
- PA23
- PCR 15
- Senior Category Management experience - Devised category and sourcing strategy
Desirable Skills
- MCIPS and similar professional qualifications
Role / Responsibilities:
- Develop and implement Category Strategies for assigned sub-group of categories, balancing short and long-term objectives to meet business strategy and efficiencies (savings) in alignment with business stakeholders.
- Support and execute complex strategic sourcing activities in line with approved category strategies and preferred suppliers list, including the execution of the RFx process, supplier evaluation and selection, contract negotiation, business award and contract handover to the business, in compliance with the business requirements as well as policies and directives, including Code of Conduct and Code of Business Ethics.
- Support and execute Supplier Relationship Management for key and critical suppliers within the sub-group of categories, including supplier segmentation, contract management, supplier risks identification and mitigation and suppliers' performance. Identify and develop supplier value including planning and participating to external management review meetings with segmented suppliers
- Drive and implement Category Strategy to deliver cost effective category solutions and business models.
- Supplier base management and supplier classification (Preferred Supplier List - PSL), securing competition in the supplier base.
- Implement ways of working according to Category Management Framework including the delivery of Category targets and KPI's for assigned group of spend categories. Business Intelligence, benchmark, and market insight to support category development.
- Contribute to the long-term business ensuring competitive initial cost and total cost development in the product and service life cycle and maintenance of the specific supplier contract for products and services.
- Prepare and execute a Contract which is appropriate to the scope, value and risk outlined in the sourcing strategy, ensuring all relevant stakeholders have contributed and approved as appropriate.
- Ensure appropriate management of commercial risks, forecast spend and change impacts with key stakeholders.
- Suppliers segmented and managed (quality, performance, risk) in accordance with the Supplier Relationship Management Framework.
- Monitor and mitigate supplier risks, make corrective action plans for the identified risks.
- Secure stakeholders' involvement and participation in category strategies, sourcing activities and supplier relationship management activities and share SCM category strategies, PSL, supplier performance etc
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As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, Circle and our Client guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. Our client is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, they guarantee to interview all veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where they have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, they will interview the best candidates from within that group. If you qualify, please notify us on igs [at] circlerecruitment [dot] com. We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your guaranteed interview. Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a better way for us to communicate, please do let us know.
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