Interim Global Category Manager - Tech Procurement

Your New Daily rate: up to £586 PAYE/£767 umbrella (inside IR35) *equivalent of up to £152k pa.
Duration: Six Months, may go longer
Location: Hybrid Working- 2 days a week in the office, west London
Working hours: 37.5 hours per week
Job posting ID: JP102194

Who you'll be working for: We've been partnered with this FTSE100 business for over 20 years successfully placing Interim candidates in procurement roles.

Interim Global Category Manager - Tech Procurement - What You'll be Doing:

You will be accountable for all sourcing and contract management across their assigned categories. This will include the implementation of category strategies; the contracting for master/service/product agreements within the categories; the management of supplier relationships that fall outside of the enterprise SRM structure for these categories; and for ensuring the suppliers key to their categories commit to deliver performance/quality/financial requirements.

Strategy Implementation

• Negotiates contracts with suppliers that secure favourable terms for procurement contracts in line with the agreed business requirements.
• Contract planning, negotiation, execution, interpretation and maintenance; manages / monitors ongoing negotiations with 3rd parties.
• Lead and implement key projects to support savings delivery or risk mitigation.

Business partnering & stakeholder management

• Global leadership and global influence including business partnering of senior stakeholders.
• Build strategic relationships with stakeholders, to understand business requirements, identify opportunities to create value and to position Procurement’s value proposition. Align sourcing strategies accordingly.
• Lead stakeholder alignment and Plan delivery (Commercial leadership and Finance across the business)
• Working across multiple countries requiring high cultural awareness

External supplier relationships

• Lead SRM for key strategic vendors in spend categories
• Manage the suppliers for the categories within scope through a robust performance management process. Ensure supplier performance is understood and measured.
• Requires significant external supplier knowledge

Business Strategy

• Champions the sourcing group management process and policies across functions and links these to the company's strategic direction
• Knows and utilises complex business processes in all supplier transactions, including all risk/regulatory/compliance requirements

Interim Global Category Manager - Tech Procurement - The Skills You'll Need to Succeed:

• Strong Procurement experience particularly with respect to developing & implementing strategies, stakeholder management and supplier relationship management and some experience of regulated environments
• Experience with sourcing ERP (SAP/Workday), Global Applications and associated services
• Demonstrated experience in influencing strategy and managing across multiple markets
• Good understanding of Procurement tools / skillset such as sourcing, quotation analysis, contract negotiation, supplier review, supplier development and others
• Good ability to manage sensitive partnerships, strong influencing and stakeholder/business partnering skills coupled with excellent negotiation and communication skills
• Demonstrated experience in managing global projects, working with top tier technology and service suppliers
• Contracting experience required, including a thorough understanding of contracting fundamentals and experience with contract planning, negotiation, execution, interpretation and maintenance
• A background in pharmaceuticals or FMCG would be a plus!

*Please note this Umbrella rate is the amount payable to the Umbrella company - this does not represent what you will actually receive from the Umbrella company.

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