Job Title: Category Manager
Based on site in the Chelmsford Area
Salary £55,000 - plus excellent benefits package
Are you currently a Procurement Manager or Category Manager looking for autonomy to make changes to the supply base and drive improvements?
One of our clients is looking for a Category Manager to join a team responsible for managing a global supply base delivering materials into a complex manufacturing system. This is managing high mix, low volume materials and components with detailed specifications and uncompromising quality requirements. You will ideally already have this experience from your existing / previous Procurement/Category Manager jobs.
The remit is to autonomously drive strategies and objectives through to completion.
If you feel you fit the brief and want to know more, please reach out. This Category Manager job will need a 5-year DBS and a 5-year checkable history due to the nature of the industry.
Category Manager Duties will include;
- Control of the sourcing strategy for a selected group of commodities
- Identify benchmark and select new suppliers to deliver your sourcing strategy
- Manage an established global network of manufacturers to deliver materials against challenging and fluctuating MRP and project schedules
- Establish contracts and framework agreements to ensure security of supply and delivery of improvements against KPIs
- Identify alternative global commodity sources to reduce costs, improve quality and mitigate risk
- Manage supplier performance, implementing and progressing effective supplier development plans
- Co-ordinate activities between engineering and suppliers to improve the manufacturability of materials, components and assemblies based on operational priorities
Category Manager requirements;
- Ideally you will have at least 5 years' experience working in a strategic Procurement position
- Specific commodity management experience (such as machined metal components, electronic assemblies, ceramics, mechanical assemblies, raw materials).
- Significant procurement experience in a highly technical /engineering environment.
- Significant experience working in a direct manufacturing environment (preferably low volume / high mix).
- Knowledge of supply chain, material management, demand forecasting and engineering change management principles.
- Working knowledge of SAP would be ideal
- Working with excel to compile and evaluate data will be an important aspect of your role.
- MS Office proficient – Word, Excel, Access, Project, Visio, PowerPoint