Category manager – indirect procurement Work, Jobs in Birmingham, Eng (with Salaries)

Procurement Category Manager
High Speed Two (HS2) —Birmingham
- £41,092 - £48,344 a year
- Full-time
- Writing skills
- Presentation skills
- Continuous improvement
Procurement Manager
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- Up to £60,000 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Negotiation
- Analytics
- Employee assistance programme
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- Full-time
- Bachelor's degree
- Team management
- Travel
- Free parking
- Annual leave

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Procurement Category Manager

High Speed Two (HS2) -
Birmingham

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Job details

Full-time
£41,092 - £48,344 a year

Qualifications

Sourcing
Report writing
Report generation
Stakeholder collaboration
Category management
CIPS
Procurement
Stakeholder liaison
Writing skills
Public procurement law
Presentation skills
Continuous improvement
Team management
Contracts
Leadership
Communication skills
Purchasing and procurement experience

Full job description

Location - Birmingham

Salary : Base salary: £41,092 pa to c.£48,344 pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer flexible benefits fund of 15% which is paid on top base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits - check them out in the Benefits section on our website.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

As a Procurement Category Manager,you will play a key role in improving the on-going performance of the corporate procurement team through a continuous improvement programme.

About the Role:

The Procurement Category Manager will lead cross-functional teams covering a portfolio of specific spend categories and is accountable for the delivery of all procurement projects within the categories. In particular:
Develop and lead a team (direct and indirect reports) to deliver savings opportunities for an assigned portfolio, ensuring that objectives and success criteria are identified and delivered in line with client expectations;
Understand key commercial drivers and commercial success criteria for procurements
Establish appropriate demand management processes across HS2 to ensure that the full benefits of the category strategy are delivered. Maintain the strategy in-line with demand side or supply side changes as they occur;
Lead the identification and implement innovative sourcing approaches to the delivery of projects in order to enhance levels of service and minimize costs, ensuring compliance with the overall HS2 strategy and seek to safeguard contractual and commercial risk;
Provide category and strategic sourcing insight to enable HS2 to make informed choices about the way in which its expenditure is deployed, and drive more value from more effective processes and or external providers;
Lead the development of positive relationships with HS2 Senior Managers/stakeholders to raise awareness of the benefits of a strategic approach to spend;
Identify, develop and prepare business cases, reports, committee items and present to the appropriate internal and external stakeholders;
Drive the delivery of HS2 themes and goals into all procurement strategies, tender documents and evaluation processes leading into demonstrable measurement of performance through the life of the contract(s);
Promote importance of procurement across business units and best practice through continuous improvement so that procurement processes are effective in delivering HS2’s objectives;
Participate in team meetings for procurement to provide specialist guidance and enable the implementation of policy, projects and change initiatives;
Advise on applicable procurement legislation and developments, applicable government policies and procurement routes; to ensure that all HS2 activities are comply with regulations;
Actively promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work, and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

About You:

Skills

Ability to manage multiple work streams in business-critical areas, at different stages of development
Internal and external stakeholder engagement skills to build relationships with colleagues internal to HS2 Ltd, but also partners across wider industry and Government;
Ability to support market testing activities to determine best fit service provision;
Skilled in compiling category plans, tender and commercial documents;
Ability to be a conduit for information, assessing and disseminating across various locations;
Report writing skills, presenting, commercial analysis and negotiating skills;
Communication skills along with the confidence to interface with senior colleagues and stakeholders internal and external to HS2 Ltd;
Ability to view and convey the role of procurement as a facilitator and conduit to progress and results, rather than an obstacle;
Ability to drive excellence in staff leadership and management skills;

Knowledge

Understanding of supply market for corporate services including complex professional consultancy services and other indirect specialist activities relating to infrastructure projects;
Membership of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply or equivalent
Awareness of government initiatives and policies with ability to assess relevancy and defend applicability;
Knowledge of the Public Procurement Regulations;
Knowledge of working with or for publicly funded bodies including central government departments;
Knowledge of different forms of contract and risk allocation

Experience

Experience of undertaking procurements using different pricing/risk options dependent on desired outcome and market conditions;
Experience in cultivating relationships with suppliers;
Experience in motivating, and leading a team of procurement professionals alongside peers and other senior managers within HS2 Ltd;
Experience of procuring large value complex and/or specialist contracts and savings to a public sector organisation through effective category management;
Experience in leading teams, managing/coaching numerous staff in their career development.

The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect.

It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

As HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application and our process involves a Right to Work validation prior to the interview stage. Note, there are certain types of time-bound visas that we cannot accept.

Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks which include Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, Financial and Education checks.

We ask for a variety of detail in your online application, however we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review. This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert. Watch this video on how we remove bias in the recruitment process: Removing bias in the recruitment process - YouTube

Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.

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