Summary: The role of Category Manager Marketing involves leading and developing categories of spend within a six-month hybrid contract. The position focuses on achieving cost efficiencies, capturing procurement synergies, and reducing supplier risks in indirect goods and services. Key responsibilities include strategic opportunity assessment, category strategy development, and supplier relationship management. The role requires extensive experience in category management and sourcing within a large enterprise environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Identifying opportunities for improvement within your category, conducting spend analysis, and assessing the development of spend categories.
• Creating and executing a category plan, including strategic sourcing initiatives, to optimize procurement processes and maximize value.
• Monitoring and managing supplier relationships, both existing and potential, in alignment with business needs.
• Ensuring long-term contract compliance and performance, securing sustainable results.
• Implementing strategic changes to drive innovation and improvement in your category, often including different levels of change management.
• Building and maintaining relationships with stakeholders across the organization, leading Category teams, and influencing decision-makers.

Key Skills:

• Extensive experience from Category Management and Sourcing of Marketing Services in a large enterprise environment.
• University degree in Procurement, Business Admin, Industrial Engineering, or Management.
• Proficiency in category management, sourcing, and negotiation, complemented with strong analytical capabilities, including conducting spend analysis and opportunity assessment.
• Understanding of different pricing models and contract structures.
• Able to secure progress in complex situations.
• Experience from Strategic sourcing and negotiations.
• Experience from driving change in complex organizations with many stakeholders.
• Developing and implementing procurement strategies.
• Fluent in English.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: undetermined

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Other