Category Manager

Job title:

Category Manager

Company

A2Dominion

Job description

Category Manager – Public Sector (Generalist)
Salary: £55,075-£63,500
Contract: 12 months fixed-term contract, Full Time (35 hours a week)
Location: Ealing/Hybrid working (mostly remote, with occasional travel to Ealing)About us
We are a UK housing association committed to a new vision – providing homes people love to live in.With over 38,000 homes in management across London and southern England, we provide a wide range of homes for social, affordable, and private rent, specialist services, as well as homes for sale and shared ownership.Our 70,000+ customers come from a diverse range of backgrounds with varying levels of Income. We’re here to provide them all with homes that are safe, high quality and sustainable.And with social housing roots going back eight decades, we continue to ensure that every penny of profit is reinvested into our charitable social purpose – delivering more homes and better services for customers.About the role
As a Category Manager, you will join the growing procurement team as they strengthen the group’s procurement function. Within this role, you will be supporting several transformation projects.Key responsibilities:
– Supporting the Head of Category / Procurement Business Partner in implementing category strategies. Additionally, you will take ownership of various sub-categories, leading end-to-end tender projects, managing framework agreements, and handling other relevant projects.
– Work closely with Head of Procurement Operations to enable a smooth transition to the new procurement regulations and contract management system.
– Oversee contract implementations, attend review meetings with internal stakeholders to ensure supplier performance meets agreed SLA’s, and provide solutions to contract-related issues.
– To develop and maintain supplier and customer relationships according to the agreed strategy for a specific category or sub-category, following best practice contract management models.
– Effectively coordinate Category Management activities to achieve team objectives, including monitoring tasks within the ECM portal in D365 and P2P.
– Support the management and reporting on supplier performance, taking corrective actions where necessary.
– Identification of Continuous Improvement opportunities within the Category and Contract Management.
– Collaborate with the wider organisation and colleagues to ensure a consistent and compliant approach to procurement and contract management.More about you:
For this role, we’re looking for someone with the following:
– Degree qualified (or equivalent) with a desire to undertake a CIPS qualification.
– Experienced in leading various public procurement procedures coupled with a strong understanding of the Public Procurement Regulations 2015 and forthcoming Procurement Act 2024
– Experience in working on procurement transformation
– Good understanding of commercial contracts and terms and conditions
– Excellent communication skills (written & verbal) with the ability to influence stakeholders.
– Experience of pre and post commercial administration of contracts and managing supplier performance.
– The ability to manage projects (qualification in Project Management is desirable, not essential)
– Excellent IT Skills – good working knowledge of current category platforms as well as MS Office applications.Choosing us is easy
As an employee of A2Dominion, we want you to feel rewarded and have a choice of flexible benefits, salary exchange benefits, and rewards and discounts that work for you, wherever you are in your life.We offer a wide range of staff benefits. For this role, these include:
– 25 days’ holiday (Plus Bank Holidays) increasing up to 28 days with 3 years of service
– Up to 8% contributory pension
– Flexible working

Investment in your learning and development.
If you require a reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process, please contact our Talent Team to request: recruitment@a2dominion.co.ukA2Dominion Group is a Disability Confident Employer which means that we are committed to employing disabled people and will:
– actively look to attract and recruit disabled people,
– provide a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process,
-offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job,
– be flexible with assessing people so disabled applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate that they can do the job,
– make reasonable adjustments as required.At A2Dominion Group, we recognise the positive value of diversity, promote equality and inclusivity in our hiring processes. We always aim to recruit the person who is most suited to the job and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds – men and women, people of all ages, sexual orientations, nationalities, religions, and beliefs.Meeting the role requirements
We recognise that some females will only apply for a role if they meet 100% of role requirements. If this sounds like you, we’d still encourage you to apply and also to arrange a call with one of our recruitment team to discuss your application further at recruitment@a2dominion.co.ukA2Dominion are proud to be a family friendly employer.
Everyone is welcome at A2Dominion Group. We know that equality, diversity, and inclusivity make us better. We embrace the unique contributions of our people and seek to create a workplace where everyone feels like they belong. Find out why our people love working with us.”

Expected salary

£55075 – 63500 per year

Location

London

Job date

Thu, 15 Aug 2024 07:40:03 GMT

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