Category Manager

MS Amlin; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A global insurance firm seeks an Indirect Category Manager in London to lead procurement initiatives, focusing on cost optimization and supplier management. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in Indirect Procurement, stakeholder management skills, and a background in the financial services sector. This role offers a permanent, full-time position with a hybrid work pattern and various benefits.

Benefits

Performance Related Discretionary Bonus

28 days annual leave plus option to buy more

Pension Scheme with significant company contribution

Private Medical Insurance

Flex Fund for flexible benefits

Life Assurance

Qualifications

• Track record of delivering Indirect Procurement projects.
• Understanding of financial services market.
• Experience in a complex multi-entity environment.

Responsibilities

• Manage Indirect spend across the company and Legal Entities.
• Develop and implement procurement strategies.
• Act as a trusted advisor to stakeholders.

Skills

Indirect Procurement

Negotiation

Stakeholder Management

Cost Optimization

Job description

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Indirect (non IT) Category / Procurement Manager

Location: London

Contract Type: Permanent

Work Pattern: Full Time and Hybrid (2/3 days a week in the office)

About The Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Indirect (non IT) Category Manager with a strong background in multi entity category management to join the sourcing team. This role will focus on the end-to-end sourcing lifecycle for both MS Amlin Business Services (ABS) and its customers, the other Amlin Legal Entities.

Your primary focus will be on procurement activity related to all indirect procurement categories with the exclusion of IT, responsible for delivering cost savings across the supplier base and creating commercial frameworks with suppliers to benefit the wider Amlin Group. You will maintain effective relationships with suppliers and internal stakeholders to deliver top-tier sourcing and supplier management services.

MS Amlin is part of MS&AD, a global top-10 insurance group, comprising four distinct businesses: Global Reinsurance, Lloyds Franchise, Local Specialty Insurer, and Business Services. MS Amlin Business Services (MS ABS) supports the organisation through Sourcing and Supplier Management, Legal, HR, Facilities Management, IT, Risk Management, Compliance, and Finance. Our vision is to be a trusted partner and solution provider of choice.

What You’ll Spend Your Time Doing

• Working with stakeholders to effectively manage Indirect (non IT) spend across the company and other Legal Entities, which will involve helping customers to define requirements, researching the supply market, running market exercises to select suppliers, negotiating commercial terms and putting appropriate contracts in place.
• Developing and implementing procurement strategies for your category area, focusing on cost optimisation, supplier management, and risk mitigation.
• Acting as a trusted advisor to stakeholders, communicating complex procurement concepts clearly and effectively.
• Ensuring compliance with industry regulations and internal policies, maintaining high standards of integrity and accountability.
• Fostering strong relationships with suppliers, negotiating favourable terms and ensuring reliable supply chains.

You’re Going To Enjoy This Job If You…

• Thrive in a complex environment where you can make a difference by figuring out the best solutions to issues, and have the tenacity to push pieces of work through to successful conclusion
• Excel at building and maintaining relationships, and have a strong focus on making sure that we deliver for customers
• Have a passion for cost optimisation and efficiency, with a keen eye for identifying opportunities to deliver cost savings and create commercial frameworks.

What We Need From You

• A track record of delivering Indirect (non IT) Procurement projects, with full ownership throughout the process
• The confidence and gravitas to represent Procurement to a senior stakeholder groups, able to both advise and influence
• A solid understanding of the financial services market
• Experience of working in a complex multi-entity environment that is undergoing significant change
• Have a demonstrable record of delivering value for money and best in class commercial services across top tier Indirect vendors.
• Strong intellectual and analytical abilities

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What Can You Expect From Us?

• Performance Related Discretionary Bonus
• Holiday: 28 days core annual leave, and you can buy up to 5 days
• Pension: A minimum 2% employee contribution plus 7% MS Amlin contribution (9%) up to a maximum of 5% employee contribution plus 13% MS Amlin contribution (18%)
• Private Medical: cover for yourself. Family members/dependants can be added
• Flex Fund: £1,000 (pro-rated based on start date) to spend on flexible benefits
• Life Assurance: 5 x annualised base salary

Each one of us is unique because of our backgrounds, what we have learned so far and how we express that. Establishing an inclusive attitude helps us, organisationally, to ‘think outside the box’ because it calls on that diverse range of ideas, perspectives and lived experiences.

We commit to continuing our work towards a more diverse and inclusive future by recognising that our business, our teams and every colleague has a part to play in driving the positive change we all want to see.

Our values demonstrate our commitment to providing an environment in which each and every colleague is respected for who they are and what they can contribute to the business, regardless of nationality, race, ethnicity, religion/faith, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, disability, socio-economic background, sex or age.