Category Manager (Procurement & Supply Chain)

Job Description:

Work Location: Virtual Working
Hours per week: 37.5
Contract Type:Permanent

Requirements: Must be able to achieve SC clearance

The Role:

As an Category Manager in Procurement and Supply Chain, your primary responsibility is to leverage our customer spend in the Resourcing category, ensuring optimal commercial advantage. This role involves providing expert management and advisory services to benefit our customers' organizations in achieving their business objectives. You will work in a dynamic, hands-on capacity, collaborating with customers, suppliers, and internal teams to drive efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and strategic value.

Reporting directly to the Account Director. In this capacity, you will collaborate closely with the Account Director to align strategies, share insights, and contribute to the overall success of the organization.

This role is home-based, emphasizing flexibility and autonomy. However, periodic travel across the UK is expected to facilitate in-person engagements with customers and suppliers.

If you are a proactive and results-driven professional with a passion for optimizing procurement and supply chain processes, this role offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to both customer success and organizational growth.

Role Responsibilities:

• Contract Labour and Permanent Recruitment category strategy formulation, presentation and implementation on behalf of DXC
• Driving forward DXC Services and provide support to the team and sales with other customers.
• Stakeholder management - leading effective and efficient engagements with key sponsors and stakeholders to ensure our performance meets their expectations or agreed standards including KPI’s & SLA’s.
• Expert user of all Microsoft packages to support current customers and DXC globally as well as supporting business development opportunities.
• Provide consultancy for customers through proven expertise.
• Develop sourcing plans and milestones to feed into the category plan.
• Ensuring selected suppliers meet the performance objectives set through effective Supplier Relationship Management
• Supplier negotiation – drafting negotiation strategies and procurement plans, , lead negotiations and manage deployment of agreement into the customers
• Interface with finance, operations and customer service teams in pursuit of savings and revenue targets
• Day to day category management
• Supplier Relationship Management and contract management
• Forecasting and reporting category savings performance
• Manage the Perm & Temp agency PSL’s and work collaboratively with the customer’s recruitment and HR teams to ensure a professional service is delivered.
• Manage the temporary labour Managed Service Provider to collaboratively drive forward improvements.
• Ensure understanding of the customers recruitment processes to be able to advise on best practice/improvements

Skills and Experience:

The role requires an individual who is comfortable and credible in dealing with individuals at all levels across the client operation including executive board directors.

Essential:

• In depth knowledge of the Resourcing category
• Experience of leading and implementing a broad range of category projects, in managing supplier contracts, and ensuring service performance and reporting within a medium to large multi-site organisation
• Successful track record of leading complex negotiations
• Ability to demonstrate experience in category knowledge and credibility with subject / market expert suppliers and customers.
• Range of demonstrable negotiation styles that reflect our category portfolio.
• High level of analytical and numerical skills (excel & power BI)
• Experience and full understanding of Financial systems and functionalities
• Proven track record of delivery in a fast-paced procurement function
• Knowledge of the supply market
• Good communicator
• Expertise Negotiator
• Excellent customer facing skills
• Results focused

Desirable:

• Educated to degree level or equivalent
• Knowledge of the Aerospace and Defence sector
• Good understanding of IR35
• Experience managing technology transformation within recruitment

What we can do for you:

• Competitive compensation
• Pension scheme DXC Select – (benefits package)
• Perks at Work
• DXC incentives

DXC Technology is committed to the development of a fully inclusive workforce. All applications for employment are assessed purely on merit, against the capabilities and competencies required for the role.

DXC Technology does not discriminate on the basis of gender, ethnic origin, race, faith or sexual orientation.

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