Procurement Category Manager

Role overview

To manage categories of spend across all four JLA verticals (Laundry, Catering, HVAC and Fire) at a Group level; delivering short term savings as well as long term category plans for continuous improvements in Total Cost and Quality.

Key tasks

Procurement

• To deliver against short term savings targets, across the Group.
• To create category plans that seek to identify medium and long term savings opportunities, defend pricing and influence across the Group.
• To deliver an effective procurement process across our divisions ensuring that a preferred supplier list is developed and maintained as well as monitoring of compliance to the preferred supplier list including management of supplier approval SOP.
• Ensure supplier agreements are robust and fit for purpose and are signed and approve in accordance with Group Governance.
• Liaising with the accounts department to understand JLA’s payment performance with suppliers, leveraging early payment discounts from quarter to quarter as agreed with finance.
• Driving our ESG agenda in partnership with our key suppliers.
• Monitoring and management of supplier performance.
• Monitoring and reporting of spend analytics.

Supplier Relationship Management

• Supplier performance vs. service requirement, working with the business to identify and implement KPIs.
• Manage QBRs (quarterly business reviews) to drive actions that create and deliver continuous improvement
• Liaise with supply chain and finance to identify opportunities for cost and cash improvements
• Maintain and cleanse of supplier records

Service Delivery

• Demonstrate an understanding of what service delivery excellence is for your role, ensuring you deliver the basics right every time and lead a team where service is central to good performance.

Managing Risk

• Awareness of the applicable operational and regulatory risks which may impact on the business and brand.
• Working with suppliers and internal stakeholders to understand and manage risk
• Responsibility for reporting to your line manager any risk which may impact the business

Knowledge and Skills (what you know and what you can do)

• Great communicator
• Strong IT skills, including Excel (pivot tables and look up tables) and MS office abilities
• Excellent negotiator and able to build strong relationships
• Good influencer
• Ability to think strategically
• Ability to think globally, act locally

Experience (what you have done)

• History of ensuring costs and efficiencies are identified, implemented and delivered.
• Ability to manage complex projects across departments, to a set timescale and objective
• Industry experience, ideally fire or catering

Personal qualities (the way you think and act)

• Ambitious and driven to succeed
• Keen to learn and develop, prepared to commit to ongoing CPD to obtain CIPS if not already underway.
• Team player
• Commitment to self-development and willingness to learn and expand the role

Qualifications

• Preferred: CIPS or industry relevant degree

Pay: Up to £45,000.00 per year

Application question(s):

• Are you proficient in Microsoft Excel?

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Wakefield