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Category Manager

Boston Hale
Posted 22 days ago, valid for 10 days
Location

London, Greater London EC1R 0WX

Salary

£40,000 - £70,000 per annum

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Contract type

Full Time

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  • Salary: Not specified
  • Years of experience required: Not specified
  • Exciting opportunity to join as Category Manager within a major housing organisation
  • MCIPS qualification or working towards it required with knowledge of public contracts regulations
  • Key duties include leading development, procurement, and implementation of category strategies, conducting market research, and building supply chain relationships

This is an exciting opportunity to join as Category Manager within a major name housing organisation, charged with delivering significant business benefits across the organisation.

The ideal candidate will be MCIPS qualified or working towards it with demonstrable public contracts regulations knowledge. A successful track record of delivering outstanding value, together with well-developed interpersonal and communication skills are all essential for this role.

Key Duties will include:

  • Leading the development, procurement and implementation of category strategies
  • Develop appropriate routes to market and ensure contracts awarded deliver value for money
  • Conduct extensive market research and analysis
  • Build and maintain successful supply chain relationships

You will need to possess:

  • Previous public contracts regulations experience and applying to the management of end-to-end procurement activity
  • Experience of delivering high value complex procurement solutions
  • Ability to prepare detailed framework/tender/contract documentation and reports
  • Knowledge of and experience of drawing up contracts
  • CIPS (ideally MCIPS) qualification or studying towards
  • Ability to work collaboratively with others across the business and have excellent communication skills
  • Ability to demonstrate commercial and financial acumen, must be able to articulate the benefits of defined procurement process

If you think you have the drive, determination and experience required to fulfil this role then we would like to hear from you. Please apply now!

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.