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SalaryAre you an experienced Category Specialist or Procurement professional that can help us make a difference?
We are currently looking for a Category Specialist to join our growing team on a permanent basis.
This is an additional role within the team where you will support us to secure the best outcomes for the Group and customers by applying category management techniques across all areas of indirect and direct spend. You will also support the team to secure the economies of a large organisation and deliver continued commercial value.
This is an exciting time to join the team to help achieve our vision to make a difference by enabling better lives through building better homes.
If you are looking for a new challenge and want to develop and contribute to a growing and agile organisation, this could be the role for you!
Some of the things we are looking for:
Experience of working within a Procurement, Category Management or commercial function such as Facilities Maintenance or Operational Housing.
Experience across appropriate Categories of Spend
Good knowledge of MS Office with experience of data analysis, data cleansing & data optimisation
Strong communication skills with the ability to ask the right questions
Commercially astute and aware with strong negotiation skills
Experience of using specialist technology such as E-Auctions, E-tendering, Vendor performance and Supplier Preferencing platforms would be considered desirable
Some of the great benefits we can offer you:
Up to 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) with the opportunity to buy and sell leave
Family friendly policies including generous Paternity, Maternity, Shared Parental and Adoption leave plus 3 days paid Urgent Domestic Leave
Medicash membership for all employees which includes access to an employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership and exclusive discounts
Health Cash Plan worth up to £1700 p/a with cashback for dental, optical, physio and complementary therapies and more
Pension scheme with minimum employee contributions of up to 3% and Platform will contribute up to 12% (inclusive of life assurance and dependent on employee contributions)
Learning and Development opportunities
Salary sacrifice electric vehicle scheme
Employee reward and recognition scheme with wellbeing hub and discount from a wide range of retailers
If this sounds like the place for you then we’d love to hear from you. For more information or an informal discussion about this role, please contact Stephanie Gill (Senior Category Manager) via email: Stephanie.Gill@Platformhg.com
We will be reviewing applications for this role throughout the campaign and would therefore recommend early applications as the role may close earlier than the published closing date.
We aim to hold virtual interviews for this role, which will include a short Microsoft Excel task.
We do not require recruitment agency support at this time - all speculative CV’s will be treated as a direct application.
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