Category Manager

Description:

Purpose

To deliver a Cost Base Reduction (CBR) committed to the Authority through the development of a cost-effective, commercially-driven supply base, and meets the requirements for Governance and availability.

Roles and Responsibilities

- To supervise the team of Category Managers

- Capture and analyse data on the existing supply chain, the commercial markets and potential new entrants to the market.

- Based on the data analysis, create and maintain strategy plans, working with all stakeholders to deliver the CBR and availability requirements.

- Capture all documentation developed by Commodity, Category, and Acquisition and Contracts Management, required to support the tendering of the Category requirements.

- Identify and enact Supplier Development opportunities that add value to the Authority, Supplier and Team Leidos Support Chain and which drive out cost.

- Hold specific commodity expertise and manage categories that are key to their strengths.

- Participate in routine cross-functional efforts within CSS.

- Collaborating with all stakeholders for data gathering and analysis to update the Category Strategy

- Develop and prepare commercial product specifications.

- Develop and disseminate document packs that consolidate all the information for a specific category in order that the strategy can be enacted and tendered by Acquisition and Contract Management.

- Conduct basic supplier assessment to ensure the suppliers proposed to Acquisition and Contract Management are of sound standing both commercially and financially.

- Responsible for creating document packs for their Categories in conjunction with all Stakeholders.

- Identify areas in which improvements could drive out cost.

- Implement continual improvement tasks with suppliers to implement best practises, best value and lower costs.

- Tracking and reporting progress against Cost Base Reduction (CBR).

- Identifying suppliers with the best capability to satisfy customer requirements.

- Collaborating with suppliers through direct engagement to clearly communicate customer requirements and understand supplier constraints com­pared with customer requirements, to contract for the best possible result from suppliers and ensure customer satisfaction.

- Assuring a disciplined approach for visibility of the right supplier performance metrics to optimise the support chain.

- Identify additional opportunities and actively develop mutually profitable relationships with suppliers

- Participate in every review of the Supplier Scorecards so as to nurture our supplier relationships.

- Support Strategic Supplier negotiations

Knowledge, Skills and Qualifications

- 5 years’ experience in a relevant Purchasing / Supply Chain environment.

- Ideally educated to HND / Degree Level Qualification in relevant subject, MCIPS qualified or working towards, or equivalent qualification.

- Professional and Ethical in Approach.

- Proven ability to persuade, influence and negotiate with internal and external stakeholders.

- Excellent Communicator at all Levels across all Media.

- Good Understanding of Supply Chain Management and Procurement, including Best Practise Purchasing and Sourcing Tools and Techniques.

- MS Office