Assistant Category Manager

A fantastic opportunity to work for the College of Policing as and Assistant Category Manager supporting on their Professional Services category.

Client Details

The College of Policing is a professional body for everyone working across policing. It is an operationally independent non-departmental public body.

What we do:

• We connect everyone working in the police and law enforcement to understand their challenges.
• We use evidence-based knowledge in everything we develop.
• We help police officers and staff; researchers, academics and learning providers; the international policing community; and the public.
• We give a voice to professional policing on standards, skills and capabilities.

Description

The role of the Procurement Assistant Category Manager is to provide category and stakeholder support to the Category Managers/Head of Procurement and manage procurement activity across a range of spend areas/categories within the organisation.

To support the Category Managers/Head of Procurement by providing strategic category management for the category areas they have been assigned responsibility. This will include conducting market research, pre-market engagement, contributing to or leading on procurement procedures and internal policy/process changes, strategic sourcing, maintaining strategic supply chain relationships, and the development and production of category plans, to enable the College to achieve its objectives.

Identify optimal compliant routes to market for customer requirements, managing the full commercial lifecycle from requirement definition and sourcing through to acting as an escalation point for contract management. In doing so, engage with the relevant supplier markets in communicating the organisation's requirements and developing strategic relationships where appropriate.

Work within the Home Office delegated authority levels/obligations and utilise the commercial frameworks that are available to the College, for example CCS Frameworks, ESPO/YPO etc. In doing so, help ensure the most efficient /cost effective procurement route is used to ensure resources and costs are kept to a minimum to enable delivery of best value for the College whilst complying with Government Commercial Function standards & Public Contracts Regulations.

a key aspect to this role is to develop, manage and deliver against a procurement pipeline that provides best value and meets the needs of stakeholders within the College whilst maximising available commercial routes.

Profile

• Qualified to L6 Professional Diploma in Procurement and Supply or other relevant subject or working towards such a qualification, or 5+ years' practical experience within a Commercial role
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Some involvement in developing procurement category strategies including option appraisal, market intelligence, spend analysis, risk management and benchmarking
• Experience of managing small/medium end to end strategic procurement projects to deliver key objectives
• A good working knowledge of the legislative and regulatory framework relevant to public sector procurement, including EU procedures and central Government policy
• In-depth working knowledge of Government Frameworks/agreements

Job Offer

• A base salary of £33,000 - £40,000 depending on level of experience
• Flexible working allowing flexitime hours
• Home working with a visit to the Ryton office once every 2 months where expenses are covered
• An excellent civil service pension scheme
• Support in commercial qualifications (e.g. CIPS)