Procurement Category Manager in Walton

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 approved 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