Category Manager

VANRATH are delighted to be assisting our client, a large Public Sector Organisation with the recruitment of a Category Manager to join their team based in various locations available (Belfast, Ballymena, Omagh, Armagh).
Hybrid working available.

Salary
£40221 - £43,421

Overview
The Category Manager will assist the Senior Category Manager and the Head of Procurement to ensure the successful implementation and delivery of a compliant, consistent and professional procurement service. The Category Manager will be responsible for the effective delivery of fit for purpose contracts that maximise value throughout the commercial lifecycle of contracts. They will assist the Senior Category Manager in developing and implementing category management strategies to achieve the aims and objectives, delivering value for money and supply chain improvement, embedding efficient and effective procurement processes that ensure procurement compliance across the public body and provide a customer focussed Commercial and Procurement Service whilst providing professional procurement advice and support in line with the PCR (2015), Northern Ireland Public Procurement Policy (NIPPP) and Procurement Guidance Notes (PGNs).

Responsibilities:

• Management of a Procurement Category to deliver effective category management strategies based upon business needs and emerging trends and manage contract reviews ensuring contract performance is managed in line with KPIs and customer requirements.
• Manage and develop an effective category management team to ensure competent and sustainable procurement resources are available to meet the needs
• Develop category level intelligent customer networks (stakeholder experts who will be utilised to provide advice and guidance to procurements) and manage ongoing relationships with all the Departments and wider customers.
• Manage strategic supplier relationship management to identify performance improvements.
• Work with other CoPEs to develop collaborative strategies for category.
• Developing contract management and supplier relationship management strategies as integral aspects of procurement activity.
• Proactively engage in pre-market engagement and regular market sounding to establish feasibility, capacity, capability and encourage innovation.
• Build working relationships with procurement professionals from other CoPEs and continually benchmark and regularly examine best practice to ensure they are leading in category level innovative procurement.
• Apply appropriate risk management methodologies and provide support for reporting staff fin high value/high risk contracts.
• Develop an understanding of the of category expenditure, policy, regulatory, legislative or supply and demand issues.
• Ensure all procurement activity within category is conducted in line with QMS and complies with the PCR (2015), NIPPP and relevant PGNs.
• Provide accurate, professional and expert advice and guidance across all procurement related matters.
• Manage the category team to ensure that all tenders and contracts are awarded on time and are effectively managed to deliver maximum benefit.
• Plan, lead and manage the workload within the sub-category specific procurement pipeline, linking into the wider category and procurement pipelines and achievement of deadlines for contract implementation.
  
  Criteria:

Hold a Bachelor's Degree (UK Qualification and Credit Framework Level 6) or an equivalent or higher qualification and have two years' experience working in Procurement witihn a Public Sector setting

OR

have five years' experience working in Procurement in a Public Sector setting

AND
Have two years' experience in the management or supervision of staff
Have three years' experience of managing the full procurement and contract management lifecycle
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