Indirect Category Manager

The Company

Nigel Wright's Supply Chain and Procurement Team are currently working exclusively with a leading North East Manufacturing business to recruit an Indirect Category Manager role for a period of c12 - 14 months.  The Client will support 4 days' on site working and 1 day working from home.  This is a salaried role, start date early May.

The Opportunity

Reporting into the Head of Department and working within a collaborative team, the Indirect Category Manager will be responsible for:

• Managing Plant Capex, MRO, H&S, Construction-, Manufacturing-, Engineering Services across multiple UK sites
• Partnering with key senior stakeholders, reviewing and consolidating spend
• Designing Category Strategy - Spend/supplier analysis, developing category business plans
• Collaborating closely with internal stakeholders to ensure early involvement of Procurement in Capex project activity
• Running tenders through to award and contract negotiation, - implementation supporting key strategic projects
• Supplier performance management

About You

The ideal Indirect Category Manager will have/be:

• Proven strategic procurement track record within Indirect categories (in particular Capex, MRO, Engineering Services)
• Indirect Category management experience/contract management experience essential
• Strong negotiation skills, cost analysis, commercially astute 
• Experienced in negotiating agreements/SLAs, with a good understanding of contractual terms
• Proactive, resilient, assertive, able to hit ground running 
• Strengths in building relationships externally//internally - confident to challenge
• Team player, flexible to changing priorities and able to work at pace