Procurement Category Manager

The Procurement Category Manager assists in managing and optimizing our procurement-related spend across installation, maintenance, and NCO fit out services, driving cost efficiency and value generation in a sector that is critical to our business success.

Key Responsibilities

• Data Analysis: Assist in analyzing procurement spend, assessing trends, cost-saving opportunities in the relevant procurement category.
• Data Analysis: Provide regular reports on vendor performance, contract compliance, and procurement activities to senior management.
• Data Analysis: Use data-driven insights to make informed decisions and continuously improve procurement processes.
• Support Category Strategy Development: Execute and implement the procurement category strategy by aligning and collaborating with other category divisions.
• Supplier Engagement: Research and assess the viability of all new suppliers for category specific products and negotiate best IWG discounts to achieve savings against market rates in specific areas, countries and regions.
• Supplier Management: Maintain and manage strong relationships with key suppliers to ensure ongoing product and service delivery.
• Contract Management: Monitor and enforce contract terms and conditions, ensuring compliance, service levels, and performance standards are met.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborate closely with Procurement Team and business units to ensure alignment of the execution of category strategy and corporate goals. Serve as the primary point of contact for all procurement-related queries, ensuring strong communication and collaboration.
• Procurement Process Management: Ensure all procurement activities comply with internal policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements.

Current BAU to cover

• Design/Specification Engagement: Liaise with design departments to ensure product specifications are achievable and cost effective.
• Supplier Engagement: Negotiate best prices for all category specific products. Ensure all viable suppliers are presented.
• Supplier Management: New supplier requests - assess whether align with Strategy, capability of fulfilling needs (payment, reliability) and compliance to standard.
• Data Analysis: Governance check list on POs  - continuous audit to validate that pricing is in line with agreed price book
• Data Analysis: Pricing analysis - price benchmarking exercises, comparison of quotes for projects, TCO analysis, RFQ commercial analysis
• Data Analysis: Owner of the price book - monitoring: regularly update the price book with current and negotiated pricing agreements. This ensures that the we have the latest cost information to make informed purchasing decisions.
• Data Analysis: The price book needs to be accurate and reflect negotiated contracts, discounts, volume pricing, and any special terms with suppliers. Verify and audit entries to avoid discrepancies.
• Data Analysis: Catalogue management: centralising price information with between internal ordering teams and supplier communication.
• Reporting: spend analysis, savings pipeline, price trends and forecasting,

Key Skills

Strong analytical skills and the ability to interpret complex data.

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Proven experience in supplier management and contract management.

Ability to develop and implement category strategies.

Proficiency in data analysis and reporting.