Job Reference: TS/JB/19-07/1230/5
Job Title: Category Manager - Cleaning
Location: Office Based
Location: Ipswich
Salary: Competitive
Hours per week: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday - 09:00 - 17:30 - 37.5 hours per week
Business Overview
OCS UK & Ireland, part of the OCS Group, is a leading facilities management company providing a range of both standalone and integrated services including cleaning, catering, security, technical services, energy management and compliance, front of house, landscaping, logistics, waste management and pest control services. The company has a turnover of £1.5bn and operates across the UK and Ireland with 60,000 colleagues delivering innovative award-winning services to the private and public sectors and supporting the local communities in which it operates.
Job Overview
We are currently recruiting for a Category Manager - Cleaning to join our passionate and driven team based at our office in Ipswich
Benefits
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Wide range of retail discounts
- Discounted gym membership
- Join our Cycle to Work scheme
- Access to "CHROMA", our internal colleague-led diversity and inclusion community – join a committee or take part in our events
- Access to internal Mental Health First Aiders
- Immediate access to our internal Learning and Development platform
- Required professional membership fees paid for
- Win monthly OCS Superstar Awards
Key Responsibilities:
Functional
- Create and execute a category management plan to reduce total cost, improve the quality of supply and mitigate risk within the supply chain.
- Regular supplier engagement and management; building strategic, value-adding relationships and driving performance through data-driven management and relationship building.
- Managing and running end-to-end sourcing activities and supporting the Head of Procurement in high-risk/value opportunities.
- Identifying, evaluating, negotiating and contracting with new suppliers.
- Being a trusted commercial partner, working with key stakeholders to support the category plan.
- Regular benchmarking of current inputs, services and suppliers to ensure our supply chain is delivering maximum value and innovation.
- Lead initiatives including rationalisation to increase spend compliance and concentration with preferred suppliers, delivering improved efficiencies and driving category maturity.
- Being a business partner to the cleaning division, always promoting the Procurement department and providing internal customer focus to support the organisation.
- Work with internal stakeholders to ensure that quality, service and client requirements are considered and applied when negotiating commercial value.
- Form strong, productive relationships with both the business and the supply base ensuring the UK and Ireland business is the customer of choice leading to business growth and profitability
- Delivering cost reduction through procurement activities as well as mitigating inflation to improve EBIT performance.
- Responsible for negotiating and delivering procurement synergy targets on M&A activity for Cleaning.
- Responsibility for all Cleaning related spending.
- Supporting transformation within the Procurement team and implementing change management throughout the organisation.
- Provide market and supplier insight, expertise and know-how to the organisation through regular reporting.
- Monitor compliance with ethical practices and standards that apply to supply chains taking appropriate actions in the event of detecting any breaches by colleagues or other stakeholders.
- Support the roles and functions of internal partners in areas such as compliance, audit, legal etc and encourage their support in establishing ethical behaviours and cultures.
- Manage internal and external stakeholders and communicate standards and identify and eliminate bribery, corruption and fraud in supply chains and take appropriate actions in the event of any alleged breaches of standards.
- Manage internal and external stakeholders and communicate ESG and sustainability standards (ISO14000; ISO26000; ISO20400) identifying any alleged breach of standards and taking appropriate actions.
- Manage internal and external stakeholders and communicate Modern Slavery standards e.g. UK Modern Slavery Act 2015 or equivalent international standards, identifying any alleged breach of standards and taking appropriate actions.
- Comply with the CIPS Code of Conduct by enhancing and protecting the standard of the profession, maintaining the highest standard of integrity in all business relationships, and promoting the eradication of unethical business. relationships, enhancing the proficiency and stature of the profession, and ensuring compliance with laws and regulations.
- Monitor the work of stakeholders to ensure that the codes of ethics in procurement and supply are upheld and to escalate to senior management any suspected breach.
- Comply with ethical practices when sourcing goods or services for the UK and Ireland business.
General
- Avoid conflict of interest between personal interests and the interests of the UK & Ireland groups.
- Exercise independent judgment, reasonable care, skill and diligence when carrying out their duties.
- Act in good faith and promote the long-term success of each company within the UK & Ireland group for the benefit of all members and wider stakeholders.
- Adhere to and promote the UK & Ireland group's policies on equality & diversity, information security, health and safety and data protection in the performance of their duties and the management of the departmental functions reporting to them.
- Support and promote the UK & Ireland group's sustainability plans and policies, including the Carbon Management Plan, and carry out duties in a resource-effective way, recognizing the shared responsibility of minimizing negative environmental impacts wherever possible.National role with travel dependent on business needs from time to