Category Manager - Direct Professional Services

Location(s): UK, Europe & Africa : UK : Frimley

Category Manager – Direct Professional Services

Location: Frimley, Christchurch, London, hybrid

Your main responsibilities as Category Manager will involve:

• Develop and implement a category strategy to meet business objectives
• Own & lead group supplier relationships
• Develop support material for category management to standardise processes and best practice as a centre of excellence
• Manage stakeholders across the business, on the progress of the category strategy & delivery of business objectives including savings, negotiations & contracting
• Manage contracts throughout their life in conjunction with the business.
• Lead and manage the risk and opportunity activities to minimise contractual exposure and maximise contract effectiveness
• Lead the sourcing, negotiation and contracting activities developing and utilising cost analytics capability and market and supplier intelligence to drive rich conversations and business outcomes.
• Lead IR35 reviews and risk management for the business

Your skills and qualifications:

• Experience of category and supplier relationship management
• Ability to translate complex procurement guidance into simple, straightforward and practical advice
• Broad knowledge of the Company strategy, products and services, company structure and company procedures
• Proven experience of project and stakeholder management
• Ideally, experience with professional services and IR35 regulations
• CIPS qualified or working towards

Benefits

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing & lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive

Life at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence

We are embracing Hybrid Working. This means you and your colleagues may be working in different locations, such as from home, another BAE Systems office or client site, some or all of the time, and work might be going on at different times of the day.

By embracing technology, we can interact, collaborate and create together, even when we’re working remotely from one another. Hybrid Working allows for increased flexibility in when and where we work, helping us to balance our work and personal life more effectively, and enhance well-being.

Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. We are proud to have an organisational culture where employees with varying perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds – the best and brightest minds – can work together to achieve excellence and realise individual and organisational potential.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals.

We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks

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