- Senior
- Optionales Büro in Islip
Job Description
Job title: DIP Category Manager
Reports to: Head of Procurement
Location: Dublin/Reading/Islip
Purpose of role:
The Category Manager lead the activities across categories of spend with the accountability for developing and executing effective procurement strategies for the categories and actively contributing to the development of the procurement function’s service to Primark.
Key Responsibilities:
Our Values:Every person impacts the culture at Primark. Our values: Caring (we always strive to put people first), Dynamic (we bravely push the boundaries to stay ahead) and Together (we learn more, laugh more and achieve more as a team) outline how we work with each other, our suppliers, and our partners. We want to continue to create amazing cultures across Primark and need everyone to play their part in making this happen by living our values.
Skills and experience:
Reports to: Head of Procurement
Location: Dublin/Reading/Islip
Purpose of role:
The Category Manager lead the activities across categories of spend with the accountability for developing and executing effective procurement strategies for the categories and actively contributing to the development of the procurement function’s service to Primark.
Key Responsibilities:
- You will be responsible for developing and executing strategic category management to drive spend under management and value for Primark, to support both business-as-usual and the delivery of strategic investments and programmes for your assigned categories
- You will be accountable for developing and executing a comprehensive, multi-year category plan, aligned with business goals, market dynamics, and internal demand, to ensure optimal performance, cost savings, and risk.
- You will lead the creation and implementation of go-to market and sourcing strategies, associated plans and negotiation strategies, to be included in the category plan
- You will also identify, assess and manage supplier risk, and the risk associated with the supply of goods and services in your category area, as part of the category plan. This should ensure resiliency, efficiency, regulatory compliance and adherence to governance standards
- You will monitor market trends, supply dynamics, and emerging risks to adjust category strategies accordingly.
- You will be responsible for leading a multi-year cost efficiency programme for your category, which must be agreed with budget owners and aligned to Primark’s Cost Efficiency programme and targets.
- Using insights and analytics, you will create long-term cost savings plans and sourcing strategies that align with business goals and represent a culture of innovation and dynamic agility.
- You will be responsible for ensuring that benefits tracking against the category plans and sourcing activity is done accurately and in a timely manner
- Beyond price, you will be responsible for identifying and delivering continuous operational improvement, innovation, and sustainability.
- You will lead the negotiation of high-value, complex contracts, whilst ensuring alignment and contribution of suppliers towards Primark 2030 strategy.
- You are accountable for ensuring that your Category Specialist and the GBS have executed the agreed go-to market and sourcing plans as agreed in the Category plans, in a timely and to the standards expected
- You will ensure that your supporting Category Specialist and the GBS have the right negotiation strategies to execute on the sourcing plan and are supported when needed to lead those negotiations
- Working closely with the relevant business stakeholder, the role holder will identify and develop strategic supplier relationships, supporting performance management (operational and commercial) as well as supplier innovation
- Strong leadership and influencing working with the functional leaders will be required in this role to gain buy-in to deliver opportunities. You will be required to build trusted partnering relationships with senior internal stakeholders to understand business needs and risks and align procurement strategies to business goals.
- You will be an experienced subject matter expert for your category, providing quality insight and perspectives to the senior leaders and functions related to your category.
- You will be a leader of change, by implementing and embedding the new ways of working with procurement and GBS partner, procurement policy and governance.
- You will nurture effective category relationships with GBS offshore partner. Support the integration of our GBS partner offshore team into category ways of working with procurement and the business, within the assigned category.
- Promote and adopt the use of digital tools and analytics to drive insights, process efficiency, and spend transparency.
Our Values:Every person impacts the culture at Primark. Our values: Caring (we always strive to put people first), Dynamic (we bravely push the boundaries to stay ahead) and Together (we learn more, laugh more and achieve more as a team) outline how we work with each other, our suppliers, and our partners. We want to continue to create amazing cultures across Primark and need everyone to play their part in making this happen by living our values.
Skills and experience:
- 7+ years related experience in a Category Manager role. Related procurement category expertise is preferred but not essential.
- Be able to manage complex sourcing activities (e.g. multi-market, various maturity levels, large scale) to supplier recommendation/award and can demonstrate the use of different sourcing approaches. Provide relevant stakeholder material to show progress.
- Demonstrated success in developing and delivering multi-year strategies ensuring competitive commercial advantage
- Have maintained and developed relationships with strategic suppliers to drive step change in value received by Primark.
- Expert knowledge of financial and legal contract negotiations; carry strong awareness of ethical sourcing and corporate social responsibility issues
- Lead cross-functional negotiation teams; sign off on negotiation strategies, lead negotiation, and manage the commercial components of contract drafting.
- Demonstrated ability to forge close business relationships with internal and external stakeholders at all management levels
- Proven track record of developing strategic partnerships with key suppliers.
- Will thrive in Primark’s culture and demonstrate our values and behaviours – caring, dynamic, and together
- The role is also required to operate within the Primark values and behaviours which describe how we work with each other, our suppliers and our partners.
- Strong Business Acumen
- Curiosity with the ability to drive change
- Self-motivated, focused, and results-oriented
- Driven achiever with a proven track record
- Innovative and resourceful
- Ability to influence senior internal and external stakeholders
- Excellent problem-solving, strategic thinking, and planning skills
- Excellent organisation, prioritisation, and time management skills
- Ability to analyse, evaluate, and recommend on risk at a strategic level
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Project management skills
- Ability to travel as required (>20%)
Function
Procurement
Location
Reading
Country
United Kingdom
Employee Status
Employee - Permanent
Yes
Recruiter's Name & Email Address
McKiernan, Shauna
