Head of Indirect Category - Professional Services

We continually look for motivated and skilled individuals who are interested in supporting our customers - healthcare professionals who use our products to help patients and their communities. We currently have the following opportunity available - please contact us for more details! We don't just build technology. We build hope. Are you ready to make a meaningful impact on a global procurement? We are seeking an experienced and motivated a Head of Indirect Category - Marketing and Professional Services. The role reports to the Director of Indirect Procurement and is part of a global team that manages a total spend in excess of $450M. The ideal candidate embodies our core values of supportiveness, collaboration, and innovation. If you're passionate about optimizing procurement processes and are excited to grow within a forward-thinking organization, we'd love to hear from you! What you'll do at Elekta Your role will include (but not limited to):

• Establish excellent relationships with key stakeholders, particularly across marketing, the People function, and engineering. Develop a deep understanding of the business needs as a key foundation for your category strategy.
• Utilise the Coupa source to pay system to ensure that controls are adhered to, and to fully understand the spend and supplier history in order to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Drive annual value improvements in each spend category. Develop, champion, and ensure implementation of strategies that will deliver quantifiable business benefits to meet and exceed annual targets.
• Work with the business to review key supplier arrangements and contracts, and to run sourcing events for both new and existing requirements.
• Ensure that risk management and sustainability factors are fully considered in all decisions relating to the managed categories.
• Remain current with market trends through relationships with vendors and market experts; identifying and communicating new technologies and solutions to key problems in the assigned spend areas
• Establish full category strategies and action plans, and ensure they are updated no less than annually.
• Monitor strategy implementation and contract compliance.
• Work closely with peers across different regions and different categories. Drive improvements in process, champion collaboration, and ensure that the indirect procurement team continues to be seen as a successful and enjoyable team to work in.
  
  Outstanding stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent planning/project management skills - able to develop comprehensive workable issue sets in complex situations
• Effective problem-solving and analytical skills - able to construct/execute multiple complex analyses.
• Strong negotiating skills
• Ability to gain a fact-based understanding of current supplier base, supplier economics and major trends in relevant markets
• Distinctive leadership - willing to make tough/unpopular decisions, but well respected by internal and external business leaders.
• Comfortable with conflict - willingness to challenge "conventional" thinking
• Self-starter and independent worker - able to juggle priorities
What you bring
• Degree required with MBA preferred or equivalent combination of education and work experience
• Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS) certification desirable
• Previous experience of procuring services at a senior level is essential.
• For the selected global categories, deep global industry knowledge, and understanding and experience of implementing best practice procurement.
• Ability to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of developing and deploying sourcing strategies, financial concepts and the ability to create business cases
• Successful, track record in a procurement organization
• Exceptional experience in contract management and extensive awareness and understanding of contractual law
• Well-developed IT skills and fluent in English, preferably with a second language
• Passion for reducing costs - exhibits high energy and the enthusiasm to establish a new approach of sourcing
  
  In this role, you will work for a higher purpose; hope for everyone dealing with cancer, and for everyone regardless of where in the world, to have access to the best cancer care. In addition to this, Elekta offers a range of benefits.
  
  Hybrid work option (you are required to work on location at least 3 days/week)
• Up to 25 paid vacation days (plus bank holidays)
• Holiday Purchase Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• Attractive Employer Pension Contribution Package
• Cycle to work scheme
• Life Assurance
• Onsite subsidized restaurant, offering budget-friendly dining
• Love electric (Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme)