Senior Category Manager - (sourcing)

Senior Category Manager

A great opportunity to join an established, supportive and growing team. You will be negotiating on labour-based contracts with companies that are undertaking construction work for this industry.

You will be: -

• Performing market analysis to find potential suppliers.
• Guiding internal business partners through supplier selection process.
• Working cross-functionally to document requirements, build RFPs, & conduct negotiations.
• Managing a sourcing journey & following process
• Validating that suppliers are upholding contract terms & conditions.
• Leading in supporting cost savings & revenue generation business goals through the sourcing process for large spend category areas.
• Drive all aspects of complex strategic sourcing process, taking lead on contract negotiations of business & pricing terms & conditions,
• Conducting research & providing benchmark data on pricing &/or other key terms.
• Processing varying types of data to achieve useful conclusions.
• Work with Business Partners to solve supplier issues i.e.. Contract language clarification.
• Increase purchasing power to achieve a lower cost while mitigating risk.
• Take a lead role & work with & lead multiple teams; guide them to best priced, but technically qualified Suppliers for services required.
• Stay current with industry trends for assigned category area & advise Bus. Partners.
• Present new products, technologies & services from existing or new suppliers to clients.

Skills, Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree or relevant work experience.
• Strategic Sourcing experience.
• Attention to detail.
• Business degree in procurement supply chain, engineering, surveying, construction etc
• Lean Six Sigma certification is a nice to have & (PMP)/similar in Project Management
• Supply chain certification, CIPS/CPSM/CPM
• Project management, budget management, RFP, & vendor selection experience.
• Experience with site walks (ideally) in construction, construction insurance & bidding processes.
• Experience in telcos/Technology or labour-based sourcing welcomed.
• Ideally familiar with SAP and Ariba and MS Office
• Strong communication skills, energy & resilience

Reward: a great day rate; a hybrid working policy that is enviable; supportive team and company