Procurement Category Manager

Procurement Category Manager

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• Location
• Ripponden, Leeds, Wakefield, Oldham, Sheffield
• Salary
• Up to £45,000 Depending on experience
• Vacancy Type
• Permanent/Full Time
• Job Description
• Job title  – Procurement Category Manager  
• Function  – Group 
• Location  – National  
• Reports to   – Joanne Summers 
• Responsible for staff   – None 

About our business  – We have a compelling vision to become the provider of regulated services to residential businesses in the UK. By bringing together our commercial laundry, catering, fire and heating propositions we aim to be a one stop shop for all residential care and hospitality providers in the UK.   

Role overview   – To manage categories of spend across all four JLA verticals (Laundry, Catering, HVAC and Fire) at a Group level; delivering short term savings as well as long term category plans for continuous improvements in Total Cost and Quality. 

Key tasks  – Procurement   • To deliver against short term savings targets, across the Group.  • To create category plans that seek to identify medium and long term savings opportunities, defend pricing and influence across the Group.  • To deliver an effective procurement process across our divisions ensuring that a preferred supplier list is developed and maintained as well as monitoring of compliance to the preferred supplier list including management of supplier approval SOP.  • Ensure supplier agreements are robust and fit for purpose and are signed and approve in accordance with Group Governance.  • Liaising with the accounts department to understand JLA’s payment performance with suppliers, leveraging early payment discounts from quarter to quarter as agreed with finance.  • Driving our ESG agenda in partnership with our key suppliers.  • Monitoring and management of supplier performance.  • Monitoring and reporting of spend analytics.    Supplier Relationship Management   • Supplier performance vs. service requirement, working with the business to identify and implement KPIs.  • Manage QBRs (quarterly business reviews) to drive actions that create and deliver continuous improvement  • Liaise with supply chain and finance to identify opportunities for cost and cash improvements    • Maintain and cleanse of supplier records       Service Delivery  • Demonstrate an understanding of what service delivery excellence is for your role, ensuring you deliver the basics right every time and lead a team where service is central to good performance.    Managing Risk  • Awareness of the applicable operational and regulatory risks which may impact on the business and brand.  • Working with suppliers and internal stakeholders to understand and manage risk  • Responsibility for reporting to your line manager any risk which may impact the business 

Criteria  – Essential (attributes required for candidate to be considered)   – Desirable (attributes can be trained or developed) 

Knowledge and Skills (what you know and what you can do)  – • Great communicator   • Strong IT skills, including Excel (pivot tables and look up tables) and MS office abilities   • Excellent negotiator and able to build strong relationships  • Good influencer  • Ability to think strategically  • Ability to think globally, act locally 

Experience (what you have done)  – • History of ensuring costs and efficiencies are identified, implemented and delivered.   • Ability to manage complex projects across departments, to a set timescale and objective  – • Industry experience, ideally fire or catering   •  

Personal qualities  (the way you think and act)  – • Ambitious and driven to succeed  • Keen to learn and develop, prepared to commit to ongoing CPD to obtain CIPS if not already underway.  • Team player    – • Commitment to self-development and willingness to learn and expand the role 

Qualifications  – Preferred: CIPS or industry relevant degree     – •