Procurement Category Manager - Indirect

About The Company

OCS UK & Ireland is a leading facilities management company with 50,000+ colleagues and a turnover in excess of £2bn. We deliver innovative, award-winning services within facilities management, hard services, cleaning, security and catering.

Our mission is to make people and places the best they can be for our colleagues, customers and the communities we serve.

Our commitment to doing business the right way is rooted in our TRUE values
- Trust, Respect, Unity, and Empowerment.

Reporting to the Head of Procurement, the Category Manager will be accountable for multi-million-pound categories of spend covering various areas including, but not limited to indirect procurement. Additionally, the Category Manager will build and maintain strong relationships with our supply chain partners and be responsible for evaluating suppliers, products, and services, negotiating supplier agreements, managing and reporting on cost reduction.

• Create and execute a category management plan to reduce total cost, improve 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 with a commitment to cost reduction and continuous improvement.
• 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 relevant sectors and business units, 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 EDITDA performance.
• Supporting revenue generation by supporting on customer bids and opportunities.
• Responsible for negotiating and delivering procurement synergy targets on M&A activity.
• Supporting transformation within the Procurement team and implementing change management throughout the organisation.
• Provide market and supplier insight, expertise and knowhow 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 CSR and sustainability standards (ISO
  14000; ISO
  26000; ISO
  20400) 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 standard, 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, maintain the highest standard of integrity in all business relationships, promoting the eradication of unethical business relationships, enhancing the proficiency…