Assistant Category Manager - Soft Services

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28892

Hybrid, Ipswich

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Corporate / Central Support

37.5

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Monday - Friday

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Assistant Category Manager - Soft Services

About The Company:

OCS UK & Ireland is a leading facilities management company with a turnover of £1.7bn and 50,000+ colleagues. We deliver innovative, award-winning services to the public and private sectors and our mission is to make people and places the best they can be.

This role sits within our Procurement department which provides support services to the wider OCS Group and our front-line colleagues.

Working at OCS is more than just a job; it’s an amazing opportunity to begin or expand your career in Facilities Management. OCS has an ambition to become an ‘Employer of choice’ in our sector and is proud to invest in our colleague’s personal and professional development. OCS provides our colleagues with opportunities to gain qualifications through funded development programmes aligned to the knowledge, skills and behaviours attached to their roles.

About The Role:

Working days - MOnday to Friday

Hybrid Role

Reporting to the Supply Chain Cost Manager, the Assistant Category Manager role has primary responsibility for merchant spend and strategies and supporting on supply chain cost bids with sub-contractors for new bids and current contractual renewals. Including ownership and support roles, strategic and operational requirements for supply chain and relationships.

In addition to category ownership, you will support a regional directors and account directors on accounts to reduce the supply chain cost basis for those priority high value client accounts. They will attend periodic client facing calls, create and manage client report outputs, capture savings, cost variances & track cost avoidance, have full ownership of the supplier relationship for that project. They will work closely with the wider Category Management team and key operational stakeholders. The Assistant Category Manager will be expected to support the teams with inputs on data and ideas to help create and execute a project plan that to maximise value.

Key Responsibilities

Communicating with supply chain and requesting pricing for new opportunities and re-bidding of existing client contracts.
Reviewing quotes and queries from subcontractors, directing to the technical expert to enable a response to be sent
Reviewing quotations from subcontractors against client specifications
Issuing the quotations to procurement category leads to enable negotiations to take place to receive BAFO from supply chain
Utilise the PSL provided by category managers to develop costing detail, feedback relevant detail to category owners to retain buying power and build strategy.
Understand and map out national and local supply chain options
Reviewing local SME’s and identifying gaps in the supply chain to request new options from the category managers.
Able to manipulate data to show best options based upon pricing data, and historical performance metrics provided by the category managers
Review historical information to build a robust process for future improvement
Create and execute a category management plan for soft services 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
Identifying, evaluating, negotiating and contracting with new suppliers
Regular benchmarking of current inputs, services and suppliers to ensure our supply chain is delivering maximum value and innovation
Build a plan to exit tail end suppliers and drive spend through strategic sources
Take ownership of suppliers and sub-contractors to support operations
Exercise independent judgment, reasonable care,skill and diligence when carrying out their duties.
Support and promote the UK & Ireland group’s sustainability plans and policies, including the Carbon Management Plan, and carry out duties in a resource effective way, recognizing the shared responsibility of minimizing negative environmental impacts wherever possible.

Qualifications/Experience

An understand of Soft FM
Previous Procurement Experience
Used to working with and negotiating Rebate agreements.

Category experience or worked with category manager teams & strategy prior.
Data focused with a proven track record for generating ideas for cost reduction.
A strong team player with the ability to work in a cross-functional team.
Ability to build sustainable and productive relationships with suppliers.
Uses data and market research to make recommendations for improvement.

Desirable

CIPS Qualification (Level 4+)

How to Apply:

If you are interested in joining a business that encourages professional development, career progression and the chance to work with inspirational people then please click apply and register your interest! You can also sign up to our job alerts when registering which will notify you when other suitable vacancies are available.

We are an equal opportunities employer and rely on a diverse workforce with a broad range of knowledge, skills, and backgrounds to deliver our goals. We offer an inclusive and welcoming environment and actively encourage applications from all individuals regardless of race, gender, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or age.

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