Procurement Category Lead

Edgewell Personal Care Brands, LLC; London; Hybrid; GBP 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A consumer goods company in London is seeking an experienced Procurement Category Lead who will manage strategic sourcing and category management activities. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in indirect procurement and a Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain or a related field. The role emphasizes collaboration, innovation, and engagement with senior executives in procurement practices, offering a competitive salary and hybrid working environment.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Hybrid working

Employee assistance programme

Life assurance

Discounted Edgewell products

25 days annual leave

Free beverages & snacks

Qualifications

• Experience in a fast-paced FMCG environment with indirect categories.
• Ability to own an end-to-end process and work cross-functionally.
• Strong analysis of complex issues with systematic consideration.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic sourcing and category management for procurement activities.
• Optimize the indirect supply network to deliver high quality services.
• Develop relationships with senior executives from key suppliers.

Skills

Indirect Procurement Category experience

Strong influencing skills

Analytical and decision-making skills

Change management

Project management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain or Business

Job description

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Edgewell is not just a company, but a vibrant global community of6,800 visionaries, doers, and makers. Our family of over25 personal care brands serves people in more than50 countries. We are dedicated to infusing joyfulness into every aspect of our work. Our pledge goes beyond our products, with our fundamental value ofPeople Firstguiding us to foster a diverse, inclusive, and respectful environment where every team member can flourish and celebrate our shared achievements.

Procurement Category Lead
London, UK
Hybrid Working
Attractive salary & benefits

Let's Talk About You
You’re ambitious, but you want a career with purpose—we love that. You’re up for a challenge and ready to write the next chapter of your career story with a great group of encouraging colleagues. You want to make your mark and let your personality shine. Well, if you’re interested in our Procurement Category Lead role, this might be your next step! We are looking for an experienced Procurement professional with Indirect Category experience to join Edgewell Personal Care – a global consumer goods business with a portfolio of over 25 brands (Wilkinson Sword, Schick, Hawaiian Tropic, Carefree, Bulldog Skincare for Men, Jack Black and recently acquired Cremo Grooming… just to name a few!).

Now, Let’s Get Down to Business
We are looking for an experienced Procurement Category Professional to lead strategic sourcing and category management for our commercial procurement activities.
You’ll be an independent thinker with a strong commercial mindset, someone who has been working in a fast-paced FMCG environment within indirect categories.
A ‘change driver’, an individual who has relentless drive for continuous improvement and wants to push forward on a journey to ‘indirect excellence’.

Primary responsibilities include leading the brand strategy, Innovation Roadmap and delivering the annual strategic planning process for the brand.
If there’s one thing, you’ll get here at Edgewell, it’s a collaborative group full of likeable, diverse and nurturing colleagues. They’re an inspiring bunch.

Here’s a sample of what you’ll get up to:

• To partner across marketing, sales, professional services, and other indirect spend categories. The individual will need to work collaboratively with other functions and encourage internal functions to collaborate with each other
• Opportunity Identification, Indirect Pipeline Creation and Stakeholder Networking.
• End to End Procurement Project Management.
• To optimise indirect supply network that delivers high quality services to stakeholders, with market competitive commercials, well negotiated contracts, limited/no waste and innovation where appropriate.
• Responsible for developing their own pipeline of indirect projects and manage the full end to end process independently.
• To deliver competitive advantage to Edgewell Europe through an optimised 3rd party service offering
• Drive and support cross-functional projects.
• Proactively thinking about how we can add competitive edge within indirects.
• Understanding availability of leading-edge technologies or trends within indirects.
• Proactively benchmarking our practices against other businesses.
• Ensure indirect supply network is adequately set up to support the delivery of company objectives.
• Identify opportunities for innovation.
• Ensures Innovation is embedded in our approach to category management.
• Contribute and Support company sponsored programs and improvements.
• Develops relationships with senior executives from key suppliers and engages them in strategic supplier management for value creation and innovation.
• Builds competitive advantage for the business (3rd party services, optimal commercials, optimal contracts)

Are You Ready to Show Us What You’ve Got?
Ideally you will have Indirect Procurement Category experience gained within Consumer Goods/ Cosmetics industry. We’re looking for someone with the ability to own an end to end process and work cross functionally to move things forward. While your experience is of course important, we’re all about making useful things joyful, so we love when our prospective candidates are passionate about this too.

Here’s what we are looking for:

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, technical field or equivalent experience.
• Good consulting skills, specifically in managing change, project management and presenting.
• Strong influencing skills – the ability to influence in a professional manner.
• Strong analysis and decision-making skills with the ability to break down complex issues into smaller parts to consider the parts in a systematic way; including analysis of the implications various alternatives or opportunities may have on an outcome.
• Ability to adapt with a high degree of flexibility with the ability to understand appreciate different and opposing perspectives.
• Strategic Sourcing experience in Marketing, Corp and Professional Services
• Clear understanding of legal contracts and contract negotiation.
• Indirect Procurement or consulting experience, particularly in services and marketing
• Proven track record of working with multiple senior level stakeholders
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including total cost analysis
• Good consulting skills, specifically in managing change, project management and presenting
• Experience working on projects in cross functionally and cross culturally spanning across multiple European markets

What we offer
Competitive salary, Hybrid working possible (2 days in the office), employee assistance programme, life assurance, discounted Edgewell branded products, core working hours, 25 days annual leave, free beverage & snacks, sports & social club membership, dress for your day policy and a great team!

Now Take the Next Step
If you’re looking forward to progressing your career with us, then we’re looking forward to hearing from you. Please email an up-to-date CV in English along with your salary expectations. Alternatively, feel free to pass onto your teammates who may be interested. For information about this great company, visit www.edgewell.com.

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Edgewell is an equal opportunity employer. We do all we can to create a collaborative and diverse global team, where good ideas can thrive, and our colleagues can learn and lead. We prohibit discrimination based on age, color, disability, marital or parental status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status or any legally protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. We listen deeply and speak directly to create an environment that’s open to difference. We aim to bring joy to not only the products we create and the people we serve, but our colleagues across the globe too.