Senior Category Manager - SC

Aspect Resources; Reading; On-site; GBP 114,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Aspect Resources is seeking a Senior Category Manager in Reading (2-3 days on site) to drive category strategies for public sector spend and manage supplier relationships. The role emphasizes FM/works experience and NEC familiarity, within an 8-month contract and Inside IR35.

The Senior Category Manager will lead RFx processes, negotiations, and contract administration, ensuring compliance with Code of Conduct and Business Ethics while delivering savings and supplier value.

Qualifications

• Significant Public Sector Procurement experience (5+ years).
• Supplier Relationship skills.
• Facility Management (FM) or Works experience (Must have).
• Not necessarily heavy construction but definitely FM.
• NEC Experience or understanding of NEC operations.
• Good working knowledge of how a contract operates.
• Led/delivered procurement projects in a highly regulated, complex environment.
• Need someone with real doing experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement Category Strategies for assigned sub-group of categories, balancing short and long-term objectives to meet business strategy and efficiencies (savings).
• Support and execute complex strategic sourcing activities in line with category strategies and preferred suppliers list, including RFx execution, supplier evaluation and contract negotiation.
• Responsible for contractual and commercial management and contract administration.
• Support Supplier Relationship Management for key suppliers within the sub-group, including segmentation, contract management, and risk mitigation.
• Identify and develop supplier value, participate in external management reviews (MBRs/EBRs).
• Support the Process and Performance team and interface with Service Centre.

Skills

Public Sector Procurement

Supplier Relationship

Facility Management

FM Experience

NEC Experience

Contract Operations

Procurement Leadership

Real Doing Experience

Job description

Job Title: Senior Category Manager - SC
Location: Reading (2-3 days/week on site)
Contract Duration: 8 Months
Daily Rate: GBP77.20/hr(Umbrella Maximum)
IR35 Status: Inside IR35

Security Clearance: SC

Essential Requirements

• Significant Public Sector Procurement experience (5+ years)
• Supplier Relationship skills
• Facility Management (FM) or Works experience (Must have)
• Not necessarily heavy construction but definitely FM.
• NEC Experience or at least a good understanding of how it operates
• Good working knowledge of how a contract operates
• Must have led/delivered procurement projects in a highly regulated, complex, environment.
  • Project is in Procurement stage - Needs analysis stage to contract stage
• Need someone with real doing experience.

Key Accountabilities

• Develop and implement Category Strategies for assigned sub-group of categories, balancing short and long-term objectives to meet business strategy and efficiencies (savings) in alignment with business stakeholders.
• Support and execute complex strategic sourcing activities in line with approved category strategies and preferred suppliers list, including the execution of the RFx process, supplier evaluation and selection, contract negotiation, business award and contract handover to the business, in compliance with the business requirements as well as policies and directives, including Code of Conduct and Code of Business Ethics.
• Responsible for contractual and commercial management and effective contract administration to the relevant team providing commercial assurance to deliver commercial value.
• Support and execute Supplier Relationship Management for key and critical suppliers within the sub-group of categories, including supplier segmentation, contract management, supplier risks identification and mitigation and suppliers performance.
• Identify and develop supplier value including planning and participating to external management review meetings with segmented suppliers (Management Business Reviews and Executive Business Reviews) in accordance with Supplier Relationship Management framework and the agreed supplier strategy.
• Support and provide input to the Process and Performance team as appropriate.
• Support the development and interface with the Service Centre.

Key Responsibilities

• Consistently demonstrating positive behaviours in line with the company's environmental, sustainability, safety, health, security, quality and ethics standards.
• Category Management Drive and implement Category Strategy to deliver cost effective category solutions and business models.
• Supplier base management and supplier classification (Preferred Supplier List PSL), securing competition in the supplier base.
• Implement ways of working according to Category Management Framework including the delivery of Category targets and KPI s for assigned group of spend categories.
• Business Intelligence, benchmark and market insight to support category development.
• The Senior Category Manager, with the sub-category Team, are responsible for securing and tracking cost reduction, contract management and continuity of Supply Chain.
• Strategic Sourcing Prepare & execute the RFx process in collaboration with stakeholders including supplier evaluation and selection, supplier negotiations (costs and contract).
• Contribute to the long-term business ensuring competitive initial cost and total cost development in the product and service life cycle and maintenance of the specific supplier contract for products and services.
• Contract Management Prepare and execute a Contract which is appropriate to the scope, value and risk outlined in the sourcing strategy, ensuring all relevant stakeholders have contributed and approved as appropriate.
• Administer the Contract in accordance with all of the terms and conditions ensuring contract compliance.
• Ensure appropriate management of commercial risks, forecast spend and change impacts with key stakeholders.
• Supplier Relationship Management Suppliers segmented and managed (quality, performance, risk) in accordance with the Supplier Relationship Management Framework.
• Monitor and mitigate supplier risks (including CoC, Environmental & Health and Safety as well as dependency on the organisation and dependency on the supplier), make corrective action plans for the identified risks.
• Supplier Strategies for key suppliers within assigned group of spend categories.
• Stakeholders Collaboration Secure stakeholders involvement and participation in category strategies, sourcing activities and supplier relationship management activities and share SCM category strategies, PSL, supplier performance etc

Disability Confident

As a member of the disability confident scheme, CLIENT guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

Armed Forces Covenant

CLIENT is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, we guarantee to interview all veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.