Job Description

Procurement Category Manager

Newcastle upon Tyne, Hybrid working

Permanent, full time (37.5 hpw)

Pay \xc2\xa340,000 to \xc2\xa345,000 negotiable based on skills and experience, and great benefits including Health Cash Plan too!

Home, a place where you belong

We\'re looking for a brilliant procurement professional to join us, and help us deliver on our strategy across a range of our critical categories of spend. You\xe2\x80\x99ll contribute to the progression of the Procurement team towards delivery of \xe2\x80\x98Best in Class\xe2\x80\x99 service to your stakeholders.

Applying your skills and experience to innovate, design, implement and deliver real business value, improve the way we operate, and give us the competitive edge to do great things for all the right reasons!

Typical day as a Procurement Category Manager

• Focus on reducing and optimising external expenditure and ensuring adherence to procurement policy.
• Develop and implement category strategies and tender processes for high value, complex spend categories.
• Manage relationships with major suppliers driving performance and improvements.
• Building and enhancing relationships with other internal departments and suppliers to enhance operational performance.
• Identify and leverage opportunities for Home Group\xe2\x80\x99s customers, through the provision of products and services established through Procurement contracts.

Fancy going home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers lives for the better? You\xe2\x80\x99ll do that here, working for a top 10 Great Place to Work Employer!

You bring

• Extensive experience of leading sourcing and tendering, having led and delivered optimal sourcing strategies and solutions for high value complex categories.
• Extensive experience in category management, including contract law and the ability to understand commercial contracts with minimal support from legal professionals.
• Commercially minded with strong negotiation and influencing skills to deliver great outcomes with suppliers.
• You will have knowledge of latest purchasing theory and practice including awareness of the latest e-procurement tools, and a CIPS qualification would be highly desirable.
• Strongly customer focussed able to place customers and social value at the heart of your approach and instil that in your team.
• Relevant experience within Corporate Services and / or Maintenance/JCT would be desirable.

Our team

Looking for a job where you really belong? Where you can be, well you! Bring your uniqueness, brilliant skills and awesome experience to deliver amazing things for our customers. You\xe2\x80\x99ll join our team, who come from different walks of life and are here to support you as you make yourself at Home!

Job details

• We work a hybrid working pattern.
• While we anticipate this to be a full-time role, we may be open to agreeing a work pattern with you, please let us know at interview what you are looking for.
• You\xe2\x80\x99ll manage your own diary, so if you need to nip out to walk the dog or do the school run, we\xe2\x80\x99re ok with that!
• Able to use technology for communicating with colleagues and external partners, the supplier lifecycle management system and excel for analysis purposes.

A place where you belong

Great things happen when we can be ourselves at work. We want all our colleagues to be who they truly are here. Our internal diversity networks, peers and allies (Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and Disability) support us all to be our best. !

What\xe2\x80\x99s in it for you?

• 25 days annual leave (increasing to 30), the option to buy 5 more, a me day (to take off for whatever you fancy) and time off for volunteering too!
• Health cash plan saving you from \xc2\xa31140 per annum. We\xe2\x80\x99ll cover your costs (and kids if you have them) towards dental, optical, prescriptions, alternative therapies and lots more.
• Over 800 high street discounts on groceries, holidays and days out. Looking for a new phone, bike or car? Save money with us.
• We\'ve just been voted number 1 in the UK\'s "Great Place to Work" best workplaces for women 2023 - Super Large Category.
• We\xe2\x80\x99re Investors in People Platinum employer, a Great Place to Work and 10th Best place in the UK for Wellbeing\xe2\x80\x9d
• We Grow Our Own colleagues (not literally of course!), when you\xe2\x80\x99re ready for the next step in your career, you can grow with us!
• Generous pension scheme with life insurance of 3x salary. Explore our full range of benefits on our website.

Find out more

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