Category Manager in City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Category Manager (Construction or Engineering)
Edinburgh (Hybrid working)
Permanent
£65,000 - £70,000 basic
We are currently working with a major Facilities Management Organisation who are looking for a Category Manager to join their team in Edinburgh on a permanent basis.
You will have experience within category management, managing hard services, facilities, and construction supplies.
The Role
- Create and execute a category management plan for hard services.
- Aiming to reduce total cost, improve quality of supply and mitigate risk within the supply chain.
- Regular supplier engagement and management; building strategic, value-adding relationships and driving performance through data-driven management and relationship building.
- Managing and running end-to-end sourcing activities and supporting the Procurement Director in high risk/value opportunities.
- Regular benchmarking of current inputs, services, and suppliers to ensure our supply chain is delivering maximum value and innovation.
- Lead initiatives including rationalisation to increase spend compliance and concentration with preferred suppliers, delivering improved efficiencies and driving category maturity.
About you
- Demonstrable level of technical and commercial understanding of hard services along with an in-depth knowledge of the supply markets
- Demonstrable knowledge of owning supplier management and performance measurement across hard services
- MCIPS qualification (desirable)
- Institute of Supply Chain Management Level 3 (desirable)
- Strong project management skills including cross-functional team management
If you are a strong negotiator who understands TCO and utilising SRM and have the above experience to make a success of this excellent opportunity, then please get in touch today!
- a m y . n a d e n @ v i t a l . u k . c o m
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