HM77: Category Manager
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Location: London & Bristol | 1 day per week onsite plus 2-3 days per month in Bristol
Salary: Competitive Day Rate | Contract until 31/03/2027 | IR35: In Scope
Overview:
First Military Recruitment are currently seeking a Category Manager on behalf of one of our clients.
In the role of Category Manager, you will be responsible for delivering commercial excellence and technical awareness across categories and sub-categories within your remit, driving up the maturity and quality of category strategies and their adoption across portfolios as well as sharing best practices and realising the potential of our allies, in order to bring best practices back.
Our client encourages applications from ex-military personnel however all candidates will be given due consideration.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Championing category management across your category(ies).
- Defining the fundamental components of a category from strategy creation through implementation in terms of its scope, deliverables, time scales, resource requirements and budget.
- Producing category workstream plans, incorporating risk and quality across agreed category scope. Sets priorities for strategies and opportunities.
- Working with key stakeholders to proactively identify, influence, challenge and prioritise future business needs and wants across the full business requirements spectrum.
- Identify external marketplace scale, dynamics, suppliers, innovation and potential solutions. Providing advice and ability to challenge where necessary.
- Initiating market intelligence reports, running industry and/or market engagement days. Works to develop new market opportunities / markets where these do not currently exist.
- Combining market engagement with research, data and economic analysis to produce a holistic market understanding and reports.
- Work with stakeholders to identify, risk assess and prioritise improvement opportunities to deliver Portfolio priorities.
- Working collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders to build a compelling vision and strategy based on insights, analysis, facts and data. Ensuring strategies and proposed outcomes are practical aligned to portfolio priorities and able to be implemented.
- Maintaining category strategies and category plans aligned to portfolio priorities, refreshing them at appropriate frequencies.
- Provide support and oversight of the implementation of category strategy outcomes (sourcing, supplier management & business change opportunities). xgikmsk
- Understand related/linked category teams and strategies to ensure coherence, alignment, interoperability and integration to support portfolio outcomes.
- Supporting business cases, ...
Category Manager employer: First Military Recruitment Careers
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Contact Details:
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