Group Procurement Category Manager (Mechanical and Electromechanical components)

Job Description

Group procurement category manager - Mechanical and Electromechanical components

Salary: Upto £65,000 Depending on Experience

Location: Stevenage

Benefits:

• Company bonus – Up to 21%
• Flexible working hours (no core hours)
• Paid overtime (can accrue up to 15 days extra holiday)
• Pension up to 14%
• 25 days holiday + Bank Holidays + option to buy 5 more
• Launchpad Scheme with additional optional benefits
• Excellent career progression and development opportunities

The opportunity:

An opportunity has arisen for a procurement Professional to join our award winning Group Procurement Category Management team. Working in an international context, you will bring your procurement experience and knowledge to ensure effective category management in the mechanical and electromechanical components categories, where you will build and implement category strategies and supplier relationships.

You will manage the suppliers to deliver innovation and performance to the business. Your duties will include

• Work with your customers as a business partner to understand expectations for the category and develop a keen understanding of the needs for mid term systems development and production.
• Develop an extensive knowledge of your supplier market and handle market risks and opportunities to support the business.
• Assess the current performance of the category, identifying and addressing the gaps with the business needs and performance expectations.
• Develop your category strategy and a full strategic execution plan to achieve the objectives of this category, gaining key collaborator sign off.
• Source new products and own the prospection, evaluation and approval of new suppliers.
• Negotiate and coordinate the execution of frame contracts with suppliers.

The client is looking for:

Ideally a CIPS qualified procurement professional with experience of direct procurement in high technology industrial companies.

Previous experience of working collaboratively with international teams is a bonus.

You will have previously experience of delivering a procurement category strategy and be able to work in partnership with colleagues and supplies to deliver results.

If you are interested in this position, then please contact me via: 01923 470 765 or email: s.negbenebor @mane.co.uk for more information.

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