Well-known consumer brand require a Senior Category Manager - Marketing. Applicants need strategic procurement expertise, contracts negotiation skills and experience across the marketing categories.
The Senior Category Manager - Marketing will be responsible for leading commercial activities across marketing categories. An exciting, end-to-end role encompassing sourcing, contract negotiations and post signature supplier relationship management activities. The Senior Category Manager will also get to support a department in an exciting time of growth and transition, collaborate closely with their respective stakeholder community and drive change across the organisation.
Specific duties of the Senior Category Manager include:
- Negotiate and manage supply contracts - drive contract completion, manage risks,
- Business and stakeholder partnering to develop category supplier strategies and roadmaps
- Supply market intelligence activities around the marketing supplier landscape
- Ownership of the vendor management framework to manage supplier performance
- Ability to support a procurement function in transition and collaborate with Legal, Finance, Marketing etc
Senior Category Manager applicants should meet the following criteria:
- Deep experience within marketing procurement
- Ability to develop and implement strategies
- Proven negotiator accustomed to agreeing and managing supply contracts. Understanding of contract law
- Stakeholder engagement skills
- Ability to drive change and simplify processes