Job Description:

Portfolio Procurement has been engaged by our leading Essex based client to recruit for an Indirect Category Manager.

The role:

You will be balancing a variety of spend categories, managing multiple stakeholders.

Main responsibilities:

• Control of the sourcing strategy for a selected group of indirect commodities.

• Identify, benchmark, and select new suppliers to deliver your sourcing strategy.
• Manage an established global network of suppliers and contracts to deliver against challenging project schedules.
• Establish contracts and framework agreements to ensure security of supply and delivery of improvements against KPIs.
• Identify alternative sources to reduce supply costs and improve quality.
• Implement and progress effective supplier development plans, yielding tangible improvements.
• Co-ordinate activities between the business and suppliers to improve performance aligned with operational and business priorities.
• Manage supplier performance, drawing on your experience and performance data to yield consistent improvements.
• Work with project teams to establish procurement requirements and ensure suppliers are managed to deliver against project milestones, specifications, and objectives.

Skills and Experience required:

• Specific indirect commodity management experience
• Experience working in a manufacturing environment (preferably low volume / high mix).
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant subject would be advantageous.
• MCIPS qualifications would be advantageous.
• Working with excel to compile and evaluate data will be an important aspect of your role.
• MS Office proficient - Word, Excel, Access, Project, Visio, PowerPoint.
• Managing change in the right way.

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The Portfolio Group are acting on behalf of our client in recruiting for this position.