Category Manager

Job title:

Category Manager

Company

Lloyd’s Register

Job description

Job ID:40058What we’re looking forAs part of this role you will be responsible for establishing and maintaining good procurement practices and vendor management disciplines, while also supporting related process improvement initiatives.You will be expected to build trusted partnerships with LR’s major suppliers, monitor and review their performance and impact on customers’ and colleagues’ satisfaction, and ensure value is being obtained through the use of appropriate metrics – driving continuous, as well as initiating step-change improvements, as necessary.What we offer you

• 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.
• A Full-time permanent role

The role:

• Developing strong relationships with internal business and functional leaders in order to influence behaviors and ensure the appropriate and timely involvement of Procurement in all sourcing activities; influencing, challenging and jointly developing strategic sourcing strategies.
• 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.
• 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.
• Managing the commercial bid process, negotiation of terms and conditions, assessing risks and implementing suitable strategies to mitigate risk.
• 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.
• Driving continual improvement of existing suppliers and contracts, while managing contract lifecycles / timescales effectively, to (re-)negotiate terms of greater value to LR.
• Working within LR’s governance model, ensuring procurement methodologies and standards are maintained, appropriate and are complied with, and that risks are appropriately managed.
• 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.

What you bring

• Min 5 years demonstrable experience in a Commercial, Procurement or Supply Chain related role.
• Professional Membership of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (MCIPS) is preferred
• Degree-level educated in a relevant field.
• 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.
• Sound understanding and experience of, partners and suppliers, including supplier development and relationship management.
• Pragmatic in approach, with an ability to interpret a range of differing priorities and influence the outcome across a range of senior stakeholders.
• 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.
• Results-driven and highly customer-focused; concerned with meeting, and exceeding, customer expectations. Able to manage to deadlines.
• Ability to structure RFPs, evaluate and summarise responses against a broad set of criteria and provide recommendations regarding vendor selection. Experience of larger, more complex RFPs desirable.
• Financially literate and analytical in nature.
• Proven ability to operate in a complex and diverse environment, with strong stakeholder engagement, written and oral communication skills.
• Highly developed influencing skills and ability to work collaboratively, both upwards and at peer level, with functional and business colleagues.
• Sound understanding and experience of how to overcome the barriers to achieving significant change that can result from a new (procurement) approach.
• Fluent written and spoken English (and local language, as applicable) with ability to liaise effectively with internal and external personnel
• Fluent written and spoken English (and local language, as applicable) with ability to liaise effectively with internal and external personnel.

You are someone who:

• Is flexible, adaptable, and prepared to take on new challenges
• Can develop trust with key stakeholders, peers and your team
• Communicates in a structured way and has ability to present ideas in simple way
• Has drive for results, solution focused thinking and is keen to take accountability and ownership for delivering customer needs.
• Demonstrates initiative and proactiveness and has flexibility adjusting your approach when necessary.
• Has good planning and process management skills (scopes the length and difficulty of tasks; sets objectives and goals; breaks down work into process steps)

• Has perseverance in the face of obstacles
• Displays a team spirit, particularly in a multicultural environment and ability to work both independently and as part of a team with colleagues in person and around the world.
• Is customer focused and driven to achieve excellent customer service.

About usWe are a leading international technical professional service provider and a leader in classification, compliance, and consultancy services to the marine and offshore industry, a trusted advisor to our customers helping to design, construct and operate their assets to the highest levels of safety and performance. We are shaping the industry’s future through the development of novel and innovative technology for the next generation of assets, while continuing to deliver solutions for our customers every day.Be a part ofLloyd’s Register is wholly owned by the Lloyd’s Register Foundation, a politically and financially independent global charity that aims to engineer a safer world through promoting safety and education. For a thriving ocean economy, Lloyd’s Register colleagues and Lloyd’s Register Foundation work together to fund research, foster industry collaboration and develop action-oriented solutions to make the world a safer place.Want to apply.Here at Lloyd’s Register, we care, we share and we do the right thing in every situation. It’s ingrained in our culture and everything we do. We are committed, and continually strive, to lead with our values that empower and enable an inclusive environment conducive to your growth, development and engagement. It doesn’t matter who you are, what you have experienced, how you identify, how old you are, where you are from, what your beliefs are or how your brain or body works – the diversity of our colleagues is fundamental to our futures and the changes we can make together. Our inclusive culture allows us to connect together authentically and to be courageous and bold. We don’t just talk about our differences, we celebrate them!We are committed to making all stages of our recruitment process accessible to all candidates. Please let us know if you need any assistance or reasonable adjustments throughout your application and we will do everything we possibly can to support you.If you don’t tick every box in these ads, please don’t rule yourself out. We focus on hiring people who share our goal of working together for a safer, sustainable, thriving ocean economy.We care, we share, we do the right thing.If you have further questions about this role, please contact us at and we will respond to you as soon as possible.Diversity and Inclusion at Lloyd’s Register:Together we are one Lloyd’s Register, committed to developing an inclusive and safe workplace that embraces and celebrates diversity. We strive to ensure that all applicants to LR experience equality of opportunity and fair treatment, because we believe it is the right thing to do. We hope you do too.As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, we have committed to:

• ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible.
• communicating and promoting vacancies offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job.
• anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
• supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long-term health condition, enabling them to stay in work.
• at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people.

Find out more about Disability Confident at:Copyright © Lloyd’s Register 2024. All rights reserved. . .The Lloyd’s Register Group comprises charities and non-charitable companies, with the latter supporting the charities in their main goal of enhancing the safety of life and property, at sea, on land and in the air – for the benefit of the public and the environment. ( ).

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Location

Southampton

Job date

Tue, 15 Oct 2024 22:11:04 GMT

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