Job summary

Well-known consumer brand require a Senior Category Manager - Marketing. Applicants need strategic procurement expertise, contracts negotiation skills and experience across the marketing categories.

Key skills required for this role

Category Management, Strategic Sourcing, Contracts Management

Important

Category Management, Strategic Sourcing, Contracts Management

Job description

Well-known consumer brand require a Senior Category Manager - Marketing. Applicants need strategic procurement expertise, contracts negotiation skills and experience across the marketing categories.

The Senior Category Manager - Marketing will be responsible for leading commercial activities across marketing categories. An exciting, end-to-end role encompassing sourcing, contract negotiations and post signature supplier relationship management activities. The Senior Category Manager will also get to support a department in an exciting time of growth and transition, collaborate closely with their respective stakeholder community and drive change across the organisation.

Specific duties of the Senior Category Manager include:

• Negotiate and manage supply contracts - drive contract completion, manage risks,
• Business and stakeholder partnering to develop category supplier strategies and roadmaps
• Supply market intelligence activities around the marketing supplier landscape
• Ownership of the vendor management framework to manage supplier performance
• Ability to support a procurement function in transition and collaborate with Legal, Finance, Marketing etc

Senior Category Manager applicants should meet the following criteria:

• Deep experience within marketing procurement
• Ability to develop and implement strategies
• Proven negotiator accustomed to agreeing and managing supply contracts. Understanding of contract law
• Stakeholder engagement skills
• Ability to drive change and simplify processes