Senior Category Manager

VANRATH are delighted to be assisting our client, a large Public Sector Organisation with the recruitment of a Senior Category Manager to join their team based in Belfast.

Salary
£54, 606 - £57, 599

Overview
The Senior Category Manager will assist the Head of Supplies and Services to ensure the successful implementation of a compliant, consistent and professional Procurement Service. The Senior Category Manager will be responsible for providing specialist informed, professional, expert procurement advice and guidance; developing and leading a procurement category to ensure VFM and best practice procurement and contribute to the enhancement of procurement standards across the Category Management structure to ensure continuing CoPE accreditation and maintain full compliance with Northern Ireland Public Procurement Policy (NIPPP) and Procurement Guidance Notes (PGNs). They will be responsible for managing and leading staff.

Job specific duties

• Contributing to and supporting the delivery of Corporate objectives in relation to procurement; playing a major role in developing and implementing the Corporate Procurement Strategy, Procedures and Procurement Plan;
• Lead, develop, implement and monitoring category plans and category strategies and associated procedure and documentation in line with best practice and gain stakeholder engagement to plans
• Developing Procurement Strategies and Policies within the Procurement Category and leading in the implementation of same;
• Managing the Procurement category function(s); to include planning and allocation of work to staff, providing leadership in the development of policies and plans, in line with the strategic and corporate planning objectives;
• Managing and supporting the implementation of Procurement Strategies by the production and delivery of comprehensive Action Plans, translating corporate and strategic objectives into realistic, achievable and time-bounded goals;
• Ensuring implementation of standardized procurement procedures and documentation to maintain a compliant, professional procurement function;
• Lead, develop, implement, manage and monitor the quality and productivity of the category, with management information and/or KPIs to support the achievement of objectives;
• Developing procurement strategies for the category as a whole and also for each individual tender requirement within the scope of the category;
• Proactively engaging in regular market sounding to establish feasibility, capacity, capability and encouraging innovation;
• Developing, implement and monitor contract management and supplier relationship management strategies as integral aspects of procurement activity across the categories;
• Proactively manage and monitor supplier performance in line with PGNs, Contract Management protocol, contractual terms and conditions and KPIs;
• Review, development and dissemination of good practice, keeping abreast with relevant case law and developments in Procurement.
• Ensuring mandatory use of eTendersNI for the procurement category;
• Where opportunities for collaboration exist, proactively work in conjunction with CPD and other CoPEs to drive the efficiency agenda;
• Plan and manage the workload and category specific procurement pipeline - linking to the wider procurement pipeline and achievement of deadlines for contract implementation;
• Analyse requests for DACs and provide advice to Head of Supplies and Services and Head of Commercial Procurement Services.
• Provide accurate, professional and expert advice, guidance, training and support to Board Members, staff and schools/customers/end-users on all Procurement matters ensuring awareness of and compliance with Procurement legislation;
• Ensuring that all Procurement staff are aware of and comply with Procurement policies, procedures and processes which underpin Procurement within the organisation.
• Build partnerships/networks with other Departments, schools, Government bodies, industry sector bodies and external service providers, for the establishment of mechanisms to share and improve Procurement information and services;
• Focus on building relationships with the supply chain; early market engagement, encouraging innovation;
• Liaising with Procurement professionals internally and externally; working co-operatively to ensure consistent and coherent approaches towards Procurement practices across all categories;
• Implementing and communicating the Procurement strategy and policies as they relate to the work of other sections;

This is not an exhaustive list.

• Criteria:
• Full Membership of CIPS. Please provide membership number and date of registration
• Five years' demonstrable experience working in a procurement and/or purchasing and supply environment two of which must be in a senior role* in a large public** or private organization.
• *A senior role is defined as: the candidate has a high level of responsibility for managing the day to day business tasks such as planning and supervision to ensure the smooth running of a procurement team/s and procurement category within their own department or within their organisation.
• ** A large complex organisation means; one that has at least 250 employees or a turnover in excess of £50m.
• Demonstrable experience in establishing and delivering category management strategy to deliver key objectives and targets for an organisation
• Demonstrable experience of Microsoft Office applications

For further information on this job, or any other Business Support job in Belfast or Northern Ireland, apply via the link or contact Leanne Garrett for a confidential chat today.