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Join our Cost & Supplier Management team as a Senior Category Manager. You'll play a big role in helping us to put home ownership within reach of more people, generation after generation.
Job Responsibility:
Assuring end-to-end commercial value from third party supplier relationships across your designated portfolio, and the portfolio of direct reports
Sourcing and supplier relationship management, ensuring delivery of optimal benefit from the supply chain
Working collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders up to the most senior levels, from different business areas
Establishing agreement on category strategies
Leading sourcing exercises
Driving the commercial optimisation of supplier relationships and contract agreements to ensure sustainable value for money
Requirements:
Strong leadership skills with the ability to role model, care, connect and coach to drive performance, change, positive engagement and deliver against challenging objectives
Strong experience and knowledge of Senior Category Management in a medium/large organisation (ideally Financial Services)
Strength in relationship building with business stakeholders, supplier contacts and colleagues
Strong communication skills, including the confidence to challenge and clearly present commercial advice and opinion, establishing trust in personal and team professional credibility
Commercial mindset - experience of commercial contracts, negotiation and drafting/ execution
ability to take a robust stance with external parties to promote and defend our commercial position
ability to explain complex terms and conditions and other commercial relationship elements in simple terms
Right to work in the UK without employer sponsorship
What we offer:
Hybrid working – 2 days per week in the office
Annual bonus of up to 12%
Matched pension contributions up to 10%
26 days holiday, plus bank holidays and holiday purchase scheme