Senior Procurement Category Manager

Salary :

Base salary: £54,878 pa to c.£64,562 pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer flexible benefits fund of 20% which is paid on top base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits - check them out in the Benefits section on our website.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

As a Senior Procurement Category Manager at HS2 you will be responsible for leading and managing a team of procurement professionals to embed the principles of category management to deliver significant benefits to HS2.

About the role:

• Actively promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work, and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.
• The Senior Procurement Category Manager will lead a team covering a portfolio of specific spend categories and is accountable for the delivery of all procurement projects with the categories.
• Develop and lead a team (direct and indirect reports) to deliver savings opportunities for an assigned portfolio, ensuring that objectives and success criteria are identified and delivered in line with client expectations;
• Understand key commercial drivers and commercial success criteria for procurements
• Establish appropriate demand management processes across HS2 to ensure that the full benefits of the category strategy are delivered. Maintain the strategy in-line with demand side or supply side changes as they occur;
• Lead the identification and implement innovative sourcing approaches to the delivery of projects in order to enhance levels of service and minimise costs, ensuring compliance with the overall HS2 strategy and seek to safeguard contractual and commercial risk;
• Provide category and strategic sourcing insight to enable HS2 to make informed choices about the way in which its expenditure is deployed, and drive more value from more effective processes and or external providers;
• Lead the development of positive relationships with HS2 Senior Managers/ stakeholders to raise awareness of the benefits of a strategic approach to spend;
• Identify, develop and prepare business cases, reports, committee items and present to the appropriate internal and external stakeholders;
• Drive the delivery of HS2 themes and goals into all procurement strategies, tender documents and evaluation processes leading into demonstrable measurement of performance through the life of the contract(s);
• Promote importance of procurement across business units and best practice through continuous improvement so that procurement processes are effective in delivering HS2’s objectives;
• Participate in team meetings for procurement to provide specialist guidance and enable the implementation of policy, projects and change initiatives;
• Advise on applicable procurement legislation and developments, applicable government policies and procurement routes; to ensure that all HS2 activities are comply with regulations;

About You:

Skills

• Ability to manage multiple work streams in business-critical areas, at different stages of development
• Internal and external stakeholder engagement skills to build relationships with colleagues internal to HS2 Ltd, but also partners across wider industry and Government;
• Ability to support market testing activities to determine best fit service provision;
• Skilled in compiling category plans, tender and commercial documents;
• Ability to be a conduit for information, assessing and disseminating across various locations;
• Report writing skills, presenting, commercial analysis and negotiating skills;
• Communication skills along with the confidence to interface with senior colleagues and stakeholders internal and external to HS2 Ltd;
• Ability to view and convey the role of procurement as a facilitator and conduit to progress and results, rather than an obstacle;
• Ability to drive excellence in staff leadership and…