Procurement Category Manager in Birmingham

Location - Birmingham

Salary: Base salary: £41,092 pa to c.£48,344 pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer a flexible benefits fund of 15% which is paid on top of the base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

As a Procurement Category Manager, you will play a key role in improving the ongoing performance of the corporate procurement team through a continuous improvement programme.

About the Role:

• Lead cross-functional teams covering a portfolio of specific spend categories and be accountable for the delivery of all procurement projects within the categories.
• Develop and lead a team (direct and indirect reports) to deliver savings opportunities for an assigned portfolio, ensuring that objectives and success criteria are identified and delivered in line with client expectations.
• Understand key commercial drivers and commercial success criteria for procurements.
• Establish appropriate demand management processes across HS2 to ensure that the full benefits of the category strategy are delivered.
• Lead the identification and implement innovative sourcing approaches to enhance levels of service and minimise costs, ensuring compliance with the overall HS2 strategy.
• Provide category and strategic sourcing insight to enable HS2 to make informed choices about expenditure deployment.
• Lead the development of positive relationships with HS2 Senior Managers/stakeholders to raise awareness of the benefits of a strategic approach to spend.
• Identify, develop and prepare business cases, reports, committee items and present to the appropriate internal and external stakeholders.
• Drive the delivery of HS2 themes and goals into all procurement strategies, tender documents and evaluation processes.
• Promote the importance of procurement across business units and best practice through continuous improvement.
• Participate in team meetings for procurement to provide specialist guidance and enable the implementation of policy, projects and change initiatives.
• Advise on applicable procurement legislation and developments to ensure compliance with regulations.
• Actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work.

About You:

• Ability to manage multiple work streams in business-critical areas, at different stages of development.
• Internal and external stakeholder engagement skills to build relationships with colleagues and partners.
• Ability to support market testing activities to determine best fit service provision.
• Skilled in compiling category plans, tender and commercial documents.
• Report writing skills, presenting, commercial analysis and negotiating skills.
• Communication skills along with the confidence to interface with senior colleagues and stakeholders.
• Ability to drive excellence in staff leadership and management skills.

Knowledge:

• Understanding of supply market for corporate services including complex professional consultancy services.
• Membership of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply or equivalent.
• Knowledge of the Public Procurement Regulations.
• Experience of working with or for publicly funded bodies.

Experience:

• Experience of undertaking procurements using different pricing/risk options.
• Experience in cultivating relationships with suppliers.
• Experience in motivating and leading a team of procurement professionals.
• Experience of procuring large value complex and/or specialist contracts.

The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect. It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work.

HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office; applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application.

Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks.

HS2 Ltd aims to create a diverse workforce and will anonymise CVs during the first stage of the application review.

About Us: High Speed 2 (HS2 Ltd) will be the UK's new high-speed rail network, improving capacity and journey times between major population centres, boosting the economy and creating thousands of jobs.

HS2 Ltd is also a safety-critical organisation. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others' health and safety by following safe working procedures at all times.