Manager Procurement

Responsibilities:

Strategic
• Provision of strategic analysis to clearly define comprehensive Category planning.
• Responsible for definition of supply strategy for relevant product categories.
• Review and input to department policies and processes to achieve best practice and continuous improvement.

Operational
• KPIs, regularly assessing progress to keep delivery on track.
• Review and endorse all documents submitted by staff for compliance and best practice, complying with the company strategy.
• Responsible for the high-level negotiation with the key suppliers on costs, commercial and contractual terms and assisting reports on this where required, and tender is high value/risk to achieve increased value at reduced costs.
• Assists in developing the departmental budget.
• Manage quality control throughout project life cycle by maintaining delivery timelines, mitigating project risks, and act as a liaison with all project stakeholders to ensure effective change management.
• Provide comprehensive summaries and data for reporting activities on spend, timelines, current operational state.
• Run, review and action performance reports on assigned Categories to improve way or working, and deliverables.
• Prioritise and assign workload and Tenders to the whole Category Team. Provide support to other Procurement Managers where required.
• Forward planning for procurement activities including full accountability for Category
• Planning in conjunction with stakeholder Senior Management.
• Perform other department duties related to his/her position as directed by the Head of the Department