Procurement Category Manager

Procurement Category Manager

The Procurement Category Manager assists in managing and optimizing our procurement-related spend across installation, maintenance, and NCO fit out services, driving cost efficiency and value generation in a sector that is critical to our business success.

Key Responsibilities


* Data Analysis: Assist in analyzing procurement spend, assessing trends, cost-saving opportunities in the relevant procurement category.


* Data Analysis: Provide regular reports on vendor performance, contract compliance, and procurement activities to senior management.


* Data Analysis: Use data-driven insights to make informed decisions and continuously improve procurement processes.


* Support Category Strategy Development: Execute and implement the procurement category strategy by aligning and collaborating with other category divisions.


* Supplier Engagement: Research and assess the viability of all new suppliers for category specific products and negotiate best IWG discounts to achieve savings against market rates in specific areas, countries and regions.


* Supplier Management: Maintain and manage strong relationships with key suppliers to ensure ongoing product and service delivery.


* Contract Management: Monitor and enforce contract terms and conditions, ensuring compliance, service levels, and performance standards are met.


* Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborate closely with Procurement Team and business units to ensure alignment of the execution of category strategy and corporate goals.

Serve as the primary point of contact for all procurement-related queries, ensuring strong communication and collaboration.


* Procurement Process Management: Ensure all procurement activities comply with internal policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements.

Current BAU to cover


* Design/Specification Engagement: Liaise with design departments to ensure product specifications are achievable and cost effective.


* Supplier Engagement: Negotiate best prices for all category specific products.

Ensure all viable suppliers are presented.


* Supplier Management: New supplier requests - assess whether align with Strategy, capability of fulfilling needs (payment, reliability) and compliance to standard.


* Data Analysis: Governance check list on POs  - continuous audit to validate that pricing is in line with agreed price book


* Data Analysis: Pricing analysis - price benchmarking exercises, comparison of quotes for projects, TCO analysis, RFQ commercial analysis


* Data Analysis: Owner of the price book - monitoring: regularly update the price book with current and negotiated pricing agreements.

This ensures that the we have the latest cost information to make informed purchasing decisions.


* Data Analysis: The price book needs to be accurate and reflect negotiated contracts, discounts, volume pricing, and any special terms with suppliers.

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