Category Manager - IT & Marketing

at  Land Securities

We’re Landsec
We are Landsec, we build and invest in buildings, spaces and partnerships to create sustainable places, connect communities and realise potential.
We are one of the largest real estate companies in Europe, with a portfolio of retail, leisure, workspace and residential hubs. Landsec is shaping a better future by leading our industry on environmental and social sustainability while delivering value for our shareholders, great experiences for our guests and positive change for our communities.

The Role:

• As Category Manager, you will be a key player in the new Team, you will support the Category Director in delivering on our strategic objectives to the business. You will be responsible for building and delighting your own stakeholder community, professionalising your category of spend and our dealings with the supply chain.
• Salary: Competitive

Purpose of job:

• Being the primary point of contact within the Group Procurement Team for the IT and marketing spend category
• Being a trusted advisor to the business on all matters related to IT and Marketing procurement
• Building the long-term category strategy for IT and Marketing procurement with our operational stakeholders
• Building and maintaining a portfolio of market/supplier contacts for IT and Marketing strategic procurement exercises

The Team:
You will join a new Group Procurement function at the start of its transformation journey and play a key role in ensuring we deliver costs savings, maximum value and a quality service across the organisation.

What you will be responsible for:

• The successful creation and execution of category strategies/projects within your category space, whilst developing and maintaining knowledge of each category including market dynamics.
• Continuously work with strategic supply partners to assess product and service innovation whilst putting our customers at the hearts of our specifications and service levels
• Develop long term category strategies appropriate to product and services within your remit and deliver maximum commercial benefit through the selection and application of appropriate procurement processes
• Implement Supplier Relationship Management with strategic suppliers
• Measure & review supplier performance and promote continuous performance improvement
• Developing and upskilling the procurement skills of your stakeholder community
• Delivering to a personal savings target aligned to the team target
• Resolve escalated supplier performance issues
• Embedding category management into the everyday working practices of Group Procurement

Your skills, experience and qualifications:

Essential criteria

• Minimum 2 years working within a strategic procurement function as a Category Manager
• An expert in supplier relationship development and performance improvement
• Tender and contract procurement practice and processes
• Category Management and sourcing tools and techniques
• Negotiation of complex and/or high value contracts

Life and Benefits at Landsec
We have a great benefits package, there to support you with your work-life balance and in moments that matter. We offer exceptional Learning & Development opportunities to help you grow and reach your potential and we also play our part in supporting the communities where we live and work.
Here are some of our core benefits, view our
Benefits and career development page

for more information.

• Discretionary annual bonus plan
• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) rising to 27 days after 2 years and options to purchase an additional holiday each year.
• Enhanced pension contributions – Landsec will contribute up to 10.5% subject to your contribution
• Private medical insurance, Life assurance and income protection.
• Enhanced maternity, adoption, shared parental leave policies (view our

Family policies page

for more details)

• Annual Sharesave plans with the chance to buy Landsec shares at a discounted rates
• Up to 4 working days to volunteer per year and ‘Give As You Earn’ programmes allowing you to donate to charities straight out of your pay and we top up by 20%

And when it comes to your health and wellbeing you will also have access to other benefits: our employee assistance programme, digital GP, cycle to work scheme, a mindfulness app and a health app supporting fertility and menopause.
We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who best meet the criteria set out here. You will have the opportunity to opt into the Disability Confident interview scheme when you submit your application.
Diversity and Inclusion
At Landsec, we value diversity & inclusion. We work to better reflect the diversity of the communities we work within and empower everyone who works at Landsec to realise their potential.
We strive to ensure all our information, and services are accessible to and usable by everyone. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or would like us to do anything differently to help you apply for our roles, please get in touch with our recruitment partners by emailing
recruitmentqueries@landsec.com
To find out more about our approach, visit our
Diversity and Inclusion page

The Role:

• As Category Manager, you will be a key player in the new Team, you will support the Category Director in delivering on our strategic objectives to the business. You will be responsible for building and delighting your own stakeholder community, professionalising your category of spend and our dealings with the supply chain.
• Salary: Competitiv

Purpose of job:

• Being the primary point of contact within the Group Procurement Team for the IT and marketing spend category
• Being a trusted advisor to the business on all matters related to IT and Marketing procurement
• Building the long-term category strategy for IT and Marketing procurement with our operational stakeholders
• Building and maintaining a portfolio of market/supplier contacts for IT and Marketing strategic procurement exercise

What you will be responsible for:

• The successful creation and execution of category strategies/projects within your category space, whilst developing and maintaining knowledge of each category including market dynamics.
• Continuously work with strategic supply partners to assess product and service innovation whilst putting our customers at the hearts of our specifications and service levels
• Develop long term category strategies appropriate to product and services within your remit and deliver maximum commercial benefit through the selection and application of appropriate procurement processes
• Implement Supplier Relationship Management with strategic suppliers
• Measure & review supplier performance and promote continuous performance improvement
• Developing and upskilling the procurement skills of your stakeholder community
• Delivering to a personal savings target aligned to the team target
• Resolve escalated supplier performance issues
• Embedding category management into the everyday working practices of Group Procuremen