Category Management Group Lead - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Highways England

Highways England

Verified Company

Birmingham, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Your new role

Category Management Group Lead

To contribute to the achievement of Category Management by developing/shaping the strategy for assigned category area ensuring the implementation of the strategy through planning and management of new arrangements and management of existing ones.

Locations considered:
Birmingham, Bristol, Guildford, Leeds, Manchester, Nottingham

What you'll be leading on

Develop category strategies which maximise customer value for money. Create a plan to engage with Internal stakeholders and with suppliers on the strategy in order to drive value and efficiencies.
Actively encourage innovation within assigned category area. This could include providing direction to the team to identify opportunities of innovation that helps meet strategic objectives (e.g... customer engagement, developing new arrangements etc.), setting performance metrics and targets for innovation etc.
Engage with the wider Procurement Senior team and support in making critical commercial decisions as part of the short, medium

- and long-term strategy of the business and be empowered to make these decisions.

Proactively participate in knowledge sharing across the other work streams in the division.
Manage/Develop internal and external stakeholder relationships

This includes the following:

Oversee creation of communication/supplier engagement pack and ensure it is regularly updated
Effectively communicate with the business by attending/ leading community groups and internal and external forums as applicable.
In delivering outcomes (new frameworks or other arrangements) effectively manage governance by engaging with and managing submissions to relevant internal and external governance groups/bodies eg. Investment Decision Committee (IDC), Procurement Assurance Board (PAB) etc.
Collaborate with the Business and Procurement teams to understand their

requirements and provide necessary support to deliver performance within the assigned category area.

Act as a point of escalation within the category area to resolve any issues.

To be successful

Proven procurement category management background.
Previous experience in working in a regulated environment is desirable but not essential.
Strong ability to manage the sourcing strategy and critical success factors internally and externally in order to achieve this.
Flexible, adjust readily to new situations while effectively dealing with ambiguity, stress and uncertainty.
Able to leverage knowledge of operations and develop solutions to complex issues.
Strong negotiation skills and understanding of contracts and supply agreements.
A strong proven trackrecord in leading and delivering varying aspects of the procurement function
Stakeholder Management.

Want to know more?

Why you should join us
At National Highways we believe in a connected country.

We are passionate about creating a culture where colleagues feel connected and included to enable them to enjoy a great sense of wellbeing.

We're proud that as an organisation we are continually striving to do better and actively encourage and support our colleagues to do the same with their careers.

So, if you put safety first, take ownership of your work, show passion for what you do, work effectively in a team, and demonstrate integrity in how you do it - then you'll be a great fit for our organisation.

An informal blended working approach has been adopted for many of our roles across National Highways.

We offer many different ways to work flexibly and we're open to discuss part-time working, job shares, and flexible start and finish times.

Please wait until the interview stage before asking us about flexibility, and we will explore what is possible.