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Category & Sourcing Manager

Southern Water, Brighton and Hove

Category & Sourcing Manager

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Southern Water, Brighton and Hove

  • Full time
  • Permanent
  • Onsite working

Posted today, 22 Dec | Get your application in now to be one of the first to apply.

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: 9d39aee997ec4903a2a5cbf89d29fc43

Full Job Description

As the Category & Sourcing Manager you will develop and implement specific demand and category strategies and engage with internal customers to understand requirements, volume demands, and specifications. The Category Manager also supports on all associated commercial activity to achieve value creation and minimise total cost of ownership, including executing the full sourcing lifecycle and deliver against procurement and value management strategies., As part of this role, you will work with the Senior Category Manager as well as collaboratively with business leads to deliver category specific strategies, including sourcing and contracting. You will drive cost reduction through standardisation, aggregation of demand, and actions to minimise tail spend within the category and drive continuous improvement translating external best practices, innovation, and ideas into actionable proposals and plans for the business, building them into category strategies. You will also monitor operational performance and ensure compliance to policies, processes, and governance framework.

To be considered for this role you will be confident in your written and verbal communication and presenting to a group, maintaining relationships both internally and externally and have excellent analytical, planning and negotiation skills and experience of working multiple large-scale projects.

You will have in depth category experience in either engineering and construction or Asset Purchase and hire. As well as knowledge of UCR and ABC legislation. Any knowledge of the public procurement act or a CIPS qualification are highly desirable.

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