Procurement Category Manager

Overview

Contract: Permanent / 37.5 Hours Per Week. Salary: £65,000 - £82,000. Location: Birmingham; open to be based elsewhere with mandatory travel to Oldbury 3 times per week. Days of work: Monday to Friday (Hybrid). Hours: 09:00 - 17:00.Join us on our journey as we aim to be the UK’s most sustainable delivery company, while ensuring our customers continue to receive a world class service. You will be in a busy and fast paced business, with a turnover of over £2 billion, that can offer you great benefits and plenty of opportunities to progress your career.DPD is a valuable 500 company and a Disability Confident Employer. DP D are passionate about creating an environment that is open, ethical, inclusive and socially responsible. Along with job security, the tools to do the job and a competitive salary, you’ll receive fantastic benefits starting on day one, including never working on your birthday ever again!Responsibilities

Define, develop and deliver, short, medium to long term procurement category strategies across relevant category area(s) that are aligned to stakeholder and business needs.Develop multi-year sourcing pipelines that drive total value, including significant cost savings against agreed targets and strive for continuous improvement.Execute and lead all category sourcing activities, including RFI/RFP development, negotiation strategy, pricing models and implementation.Drive change through skilled stakeholder influencing and cross-departmental collaboration.Perform detailed supply market analysis to determine trends and innovation.Maintain regular and effective internal communication with all stakeholder departments.Building close relationships with operations and finance and contributing to budgets, advising any shortfall/ benefits for the coming year.Represent Procurement in Geopost European sourcing initiatives where required.Contract management of strategic suppliers for organisational gain and aligning these suppliers to long term business goals.Manage strategic supplier service performance in conjunction with operations and the business in line with contract commitments, KPI’s, SLA’s seeking to improve where possible.Supplier segmentation strategies and optimising the supply base.Re-negotiating legacy agreements where there is business advantage.Presenting ideas to senior level stakeholders and gaining buy-in where required.Manage internal and external benchmarking on portfolio of categories.Drive procurement compliance across relevant functions, business systems, policies and processes.Ensure category spend taxonomy for relevant areas are kept updated.Ensure contract databases are kept updated.Work closely with Legal department to ensure robust contractual agreements are put in place to minimise operational and commercial risk.Drive procurement policy compliance with stakeholders and relevant business functions.Create procurement market analysis tendering within relevant systems for decision making audit purposes.Factor sustainability credentials and innovation into supplier award decision making.Work closely with Quality, Risk and Operations to drive service quality enhancements.Qualifications

Educated to Degree Level in a Business or Economics related field (desirable)MCIPS or working towards MCIPS status (desirable)Relevant experience sourcing GNFR business products and services (cross-category), ideally within the Logistics sectorAdvanced commercial negotiation skills e.g. GAP NegotiationProactive relationship building, networking and influencing skillsExcellent interpersonal skills and ability to work with people at all levelsDemonstrable track record in achieving significant savings and influencing people of all levelsDemonstrable track record in communicating ideas to senior managementDemonstrable track record in managing supplier relationships and improving performanceLeadership qualitiesOrganisation, Planning and Project ManagementLegal Contracting AwarenessExcellent written and verbal communication skillsStrong numeracy and interpretation of financial data including ability to perform total cost of ownership analysis.Good IT literacy including MS PowerPoint and ExcelStrong team playerAbility to work independently, self-starterPrepared to travelAdditional Information

About our benefits

Holiday tradingEnhanced maternity and paternity packageFree life assurance of 4 x salary on joining the pension schemeFree onsite car parking for all employeesHealth Kiosks visiting every locationDiscounted shopping from 100’s of retailers including up to 5% off supermarket shoppingMilestone Days off to celebrate with your family and friendsFor employees who regularly use a screen as part of their job we offer free eye tests and support with the cost of glassesJoining DPD can lead to not just a stable job but also a career. DPD prides itself on recognising and developing talent alongside a desire to promote from within. As a continually growing and evolving organisation, we are proud to offer a great number of development and promotion opportunities.If you identify with our aims and values and can help us deliver our customers\'' promises, then this is the job for you! Apply ..... full job details .....