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Category Manager - Hybrid

E Personnel Recruitment
Posted 5 days ago, valid for 3 days
Location

London, Greater London EC1R 0WX

Salary

£35,000 - £42,000 per annum

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Contract type

Full Time

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  • The Category Manager position is a hybrid role located in HA9, requiring three days in the office each week.
  • This role offers a salary of £52,929 and requires candidates to have experience managing complex, high-value procurement projects.
  • Applicants should possess expert knowledge of procurement, ideally within the public sector, and demonstrate a track record of successfully leading multi-disciplined teams.
  • The successful candidate will act as a strategic advisor, utilizing sound market analysis and strategic sourcing techniques to improve service quality and ensure value for money.
  • Candidates should be quick learners with strong commercial acumen and people skills, ready to implement key procurement strategies and gain recognition from senior leaders.

HYBRID ROLE - 3 DAYS IN THE OFFICE - Category Manager

Location is HA9

ROLE PAYING £52,929

HOURS 9AM - 5PM Category Manager

Acting in partnership with your key stakeholders you’ll manage complex, high to medium value procurement projects that are key to delivering good quality public services. In brief, you’ll be a key strategic advisor, confident and clear thinking, providing expert support and making sure projects achieve the best possible outcomes.

You will have expert knowledge of procurement - ideally in the public sector It’s all about using the tools and techniques of strategic sourcing to achieve business goals. Through sound market analysis and strategy formulation, you’ll improve the quality of services being delivered, whilst always ensuring value for money.

You should also have specialist knowledge of one of the areas mentioned above, plus a track record of managing complex, high-value projects with multiple stakeholders.

A quick learner with the ability to hit the ground running. Adept at devising strategies, including innovative commercial arrangements or new service delivery models, you’ll understand the end-to-end procurement process and have plenty of experience leading multi-disciplined teams. With commercial acumen and great people skills, this could be your opportunity to stretch your talents to the full.

You will be given the opportunity to showcase you strategic thinking and strategy deliver by leading a team to implement one of the key pillars of the Procurement Strategy and being recognised by senior leaders across the council as the Procurement lead for that pillar.

If your application is successful, you will be contact shortly.

The job title and description in this advertisement may differ from the client's official job description/contract .We appreciate your interest in this role. E-Personnel Recruitment aims to acknowledge all applications, but due to the high volume of CVs we receive, this may not always be feasible.

You can apply with the utmost confidence to E-Personnel Recruitment directly, experts in both Permanent and Temporary Recruitment, and a proud member of the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC), the professional body for the recruitment industry. In the meantime, feel free to explore similar job opportunities on our website: e-personnelrecruitment.co.uk

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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.