Category Manager

Category Manager – Marketing Procurement

Location: Nottingham (5-3 days/week)

Pay: Competitive daily rate, Inside IR35

Full-time Category Manager, based in Nottingham, reporting to the Category Director for Marketing Procurement. You’ll own initiatives across marketing categories, partnering with stakeholders and agencies across a large retail group to drive value, innovation and compliance.

About the role

You’ll be one of three Category Managers in the Marketing Procurement team, reporting to the Category Director for Marketing, who is responsible for around £200m of spend. A shared team of Procurement Associates supports you.

Role objectives:

• Lead and take personal ownership of category strategy and initiatives
• Work with stakeholders up to executive level, using external insight and spend analysis to balance value and service
• Drive procurement-led change and sourcing across the group’s pharmacy, optical and beauty businesses
• Project manage workstreams so they land on time and within governance
• Work with Finance Business Partners, Legal, InfoSec and Data Protection teams
• Negotiate, select suppliers and agree contracts
• Track and report savings, ROI and other procurement KPIs
• Manage key supplier relationships, and monitor supplier risk and compliance

Skills and Experiences:

• Experience building category strategies and a good understanding of marketing sub-categories and agencies
• Commercial judgement: balancing value and service, and finding creative commercial solutions
• Strong negotiation skills, reaching outcomes all parties accept
• Experience negotiating commercial contracts, both local and regional
• Proven ability to lead projects and deliver on time and in full
• Confidence working with stakeholders across the business, including senior leaders
• Clear communication of plans, results and issues to a wide range of audiences
• A track record of delivering results with urgency
• The ability to spot risks and put mitigations in place within the business’s risk appetite
• Experience leading the category management process end to end

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