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About Us
A career with us will help create a legacy. With operations in every corner of the world, our work goes to the cutting-edge of digital transformation and technology. From the multi-cultural strength of our global organization to the sustainable and innovative ways we work to bring people together, there’s something for everyone to get stuck into. And that’s where you come in.

London, Greater London, United Kingdom (Hybrid)

Our Opportunity
We currently have a vacancy for a Category Manager – Direct Materials to join our team based in London.
The Category Manager is responsible for ensuring that our suppliers provide the competitiveness required to support the business and to introduce optimal supply base changes to support business-winning capability. This Category Manager is also responsible for end-to-end performance of the acquisition process, leading major/business critical supplier selection exercises to support business needs, ensuring the deployment, implementation and monitoring of agreed category strategies as well as being responsible for supplier relationship management and continuous improvement of suppliers within their category.
The Category Manager’s prime role is the management of the RFI or/and RFP’s until PVet 4 stage for business critical work packages (up to PVet 5 based on some Regions) in order to provide competitiveness to the business.
This is a hybrid role, where our minimum expectation is that you will be on site 2 days per week – primarily from a base location in London.
Key Responsibilities:
Your responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:
Provide reporting on key figures including:
  • Performance against targets, Savings, Spend, Competitiveness, Cost reductions and Compliance
The Category Manager (CM) supports one or several procurement categories.
  • The CM works in close relation with the relevant Global Category Managers (GCM), the Categories Team Leader (CTL) and the Tactical Buyer (TB)
  • All CM actions have to be in line with the strategy defined by the Global Category Manager and the CM will have a regular feedback loop with the GCM
Strategy:
  • Provide input into worldwide category strategies for short, medium and long term needs
  • Ensure that clear and measurable savings targets are identified and delivered by category
Procurement Competitiveness Capture:
  • Monitor and provide insights on category markets on an on-going basis to identify and understand key players, newcomers, economic evolutions, market or regulation constraints, innovations and technology in order to support the development of the most up to date category strategies for the businesses
  • In conjunction with the Procurement Product, Bids and Project Managers (PPM) and cross functional teams, the CM supports the preparation of Make/Buy decisions (lead by the PPM)
Governance, Leadership and Performance Management:
  • Ensure governance is applied using KPI’s and root cause corrective actions
Supplier/Acquisition Management:
  • Performance management of the supply base in line with the standards set out by the GCM
  • Ensure that supplier competitions follow the governance process and are balanced and fair
  • Ensure that the supplier contracts/framework agreements are negotiated, adopted and utilized
  • Ensure that specific legal compliance, government or special customer requirements are taken into account during conception/implementation of category strategies
  • Ensure that the risks, opportunities and Tier supply chain mapping is understood and managed
  • Identify the suppliers who require focused development actions and ensure that the Supplier Development Team have the required support/leverage to conduct successfully these actions
Operational Support:
  • Ensure the Tactical Buyers receive all required information to raise the Procurement Orders
Technical Skills and Experience
  • Ability to analyze complex and sometimes incomplete information to create an easy to communicate short-medium and long term solution
  • Adapt behaviors and use appropriate techniques to plan and manage relationships with key stakeholders
  • Communicate a clear vision for the category
  • Measure the impact of your performance, and of your suppliers
  • Engaging written and oral communication and presentation skills
  • Strong Supplier Relationship and Performance Management techniques and measurement
Human Skills
  • Set stretched goals for yourself and your suppliers
  • Extensive experience in relevant Procurement including complex category procurement
  • Strong stakeholder management
  • Relevant experience in managing commercial disputes with Suppliers
What to expect
We aim to complete a two-stage interview process. Your first interview will be a virtual interview. The second stage interview will focus on behavioural and technical competencies and be held in person in our London office.
Reasonable adjustments are available with prior notice so please let the TA partner know if this would be necessary. To find out what reasonable adjustments are, and what might be available, your TA partner will be happy to discuss this with you. We may close this role early if we quickly identify suitably strong applicants.
What We Can Offer
We’re committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry. We hire from within as our first priority, so you’ll have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation.
Flexibility
Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

We welcome and value differences in background, age, gender, sexuality, family status, disability, race, nationality, ethnicity, religion, and world view. It is our commitment to create an inclusive environment – we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

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