Royal BAM Group

Category Manager

Royal BAM Group

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: United Kingdom

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About the role

  • Develop, implement and communicate the Category plan according to the UK & Ireland Supply Chain management and Procurement strategy
  • Capture and share knowledge of the integral chain of the category, including performance trends and market demands
  • Accountable for the coupling of the current and future demand within BAM to continuously improve the category strategy
  • Build and maintain excellent relations with internal and external stakeholders, relevant organisations, governmental organisations, and other entities that are of importance
  • Develop and manage contract database, list of supply chain partners and categorisation of supply chain partners
  • Negotiate contracts with Supply Chain partners and anticipate key issues in the respective category
  • Cross division collaboration – facilitate alignment between Civils and Buildings division to foster cohesive procurement approaches and share learning
  • Provide tools and guidance for team members involved in the category to realise the Category Plan
  • Liaise with the contract specialists to increase procurement efficiency for the assigned category
  • Develop and manage short and long term category strategy, based on the BAM Category Management approach resulting in continuously improvement of the procurement process
  • Support sourcing activities in the tender phase by providing current recommendations based on existing performance across the division
  • Actively interact within the BAM organisation, including Procurement community to support, share and communicate all relevant aspects of the category strategy
  • Hold regular vendor performance meetings and be the point of contact and escalation for any poor performance of category specific vendors
  • Keep vendor and contract database up to date, maintain and develop preferred supplier list, including rationalising and categorising the vendors
  • Capture detailed category data and produce detailed reports from tender to project award
  • Ability to improve visibility, track performance and address gaps at a strategic level

Requirements

  • Professional academic background or experience
  • 5 to 10 years relevant work experience in the category field of expertise and/or (construction related) industry
  • Work experience in a complex matrix organisation, preferably project company
  • Business fluency in English is essential (written and oral)
  • Ability to interact with all levels of the organisation
  • Strong time and project management, teamwork, execution and organisation skills
  • Experience in vendor relationship management
Benefits
  • Competitive salary
  • A wide range of family-friendly policies
  • Company car/car allowance/travel allowance
  • 8 % matched pension contributions
  • Private healthcare
  • Life assurance
  • 26 days holiday
  • 2 wellbeing days
  • 1 volunteering day
  • Personal and professional development
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
category managementcontract negotiationprocurement strategyvendor performance managementdata analysissourcing activitiescontract database managementperformance trackingreport generationsupply chain management
Soft Skills
communicationstakeholder managementteamworkproject managementorganizational skillsinterpersonal skillscollaborationproblem-solvingstrategic thinkingexecution