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Category Manager
Lloyd'S Register
Technical and professional services provider ensuring safety and performance in maritime and infrastructure contexts.
Lead procurement and sustainability for professional services, travel, and employee services
Forging and maintaining trusted partnerships with LR’s suppliers and partners; holding suppliers to account, managing performance through the use of metrics and improving LR colleagues’ satisfaction.
Working within LR’s governance model, ensuring procurement methodologies and standards are maintained, appropriate and are complied with, and that risks are appropriately managed.
Driving continual improvement of existing suppliers and contracts, while managing contract lifecycles / timescales effectively, to (re-)negotiate terms of greater value to LR.
Actively manage your team to ensure the hardware and software queues are maintained in a timely manner.
Managing the commercial bid process, negotiation of terms and conditions, assessing risks and implementing suitable strategies to mitigate risk.
Designing and managing procurement project plans for individual initiatives, evaluating processes and identifying risks and issues to ensure contracts are delivered on time, to budget, with improved benefits and savings for LR.
Being an active advocate for the Procurement team; educating the business and showing the value and benefit that involving Procurement early on in sourcing initiatives can bring.
Work with direct reports to develop team members and educate in Procurement best practice.
Developing strong relationships with internal business and functional leaders in order to influence behaviour ensure the appropriate and timely involvement of Procurement in all sourcing activities; influencing, challenging and jointly developing strategic sourcing strategies.
In conjunction with business and functional leaders, leading on requests for information, requests for quotations, requests for proposals and other commercial information on specific projects.
What you bring
cips
degree
commercial
negotiation
analytical
stakeholder
Pragmatic in approach, with an ability to interpret a range of differing priorities and influence the outcome range of senior stakeholders.
Strong commercial acumen, with extensive and relevant experience of 3rd-party negotiations, commercial terms, contracting and subsequent vendor management; strong negotiator that achieves optimal results.
Financially literate and analytical in nature.
Results-driven and highly customer-focused; concerned with meeting, and exceeding, customer expectations. Able to manage to deadlines.
Proven ability to operate in a complex and diverse environment, with strong stakeholder engagement, written and oral communication skills.
Member of CIPS or Degree-level equivalent
Highly developed influencing skills and ability to work collaboratively, both upwards and at peer level, with functional and business colleagues.
Able to foresee and solve challenges that may have a broad impact on the wider business strategy or outcomes. Sensitive to needing to manage impacts on colleagues / managing change.
Sound understanding and experience of, partners and suppliers, including supplier development and relationship management.
Ability to structure RFPs, evaluate and summarise responses against a broad set of criteria and provide recommendations regarding vendor selection.
Sound understanding and experience of how to overcome the barriers to achieving significant change that can result from a new (procurement) approach.
Benefits
Competitive Salary
The opportunity to work for an organization that has a strong sense of purpose, is values driven and helps colleagues to develop professionally and personally through our range of people development programmes.
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