Senior Category Manager

at  Severn Trent

Hello, we’re Severn Trent and we think water is wonderful. Oh, we’re pretty keen on people too.
24 hours a day, 365 days a year we serve 4.8 million households and business across the heart of the UK. Each cuppa drank and every toilet flushed is only possible because of the 6,500 brilliant team members working across our patch.
We welcome people from all walks of life and celebrate individuality. We know diverse minds, experiences and backgrounds help us to learn and better serve our customers and the communities where they live.
If you want to do more because you care, we’d love to talk to you. There really is something for everyone here.

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We have an exciting new opportunity for a Senior Category Manager within our Procurement team here in Coventry.
In this role you’ll deliver a sustainable supply chain to ensure Severn Trent Water’s external expenditure is effectively managed to deliver lowest costs and highest standards. You’ll be working with senior stakeholders across the business, so communication skills are key in this role and as a senior member of the team, you’ll be on hand to guide and support our Buyers and Category Managers as they look to progress in their careers.
Sound like you? Then read on.

Your key accountabilities in helping us will be:

• Lead the development and management of category plans for strategic areas of spend including maintaining a pipeline of planned procurement activity.
• Profile and research supply markets and suppliers to assess trends, opportunities and risks.
• Developing and implementing category strategies which fulfil business requirements (costs and performance) and which recommend strategic sourcing options, tactics, implementation plans, commercial supply risks, whilst ensuring compliance with all legislative requirements.
• Responsible for supplier selection, managing the tender process and implementing contacts to meet and exceed Severn Trent requirements and to ensure best value is delivered through the life of the contract, particularly in relation to Sustainability.
• Identification and delivery of category cost saving opportunities.

The right skills and experience are important. But if you have the right character, positivity and a caring attitude we want to talk to you, too.
You’ll join our team with a strong commercial background, gained ideally within a regulated environment, Utilities sector or large, complex organisation.
From a technical standpoint, you’ll have experience and knowledge of modern purchasing processes (e.g. managing tenders & contracts), alongside a good understanding of end-to-end category management, with a proven ability to develop and articulate category strategies. Additionally, it would be advantageous if you hold an appropriate professional qualification (e.g. CIPS).
We’re looking for a confident leader to drive change and continuous improvement across the team and organisation.
We welcome people from all walks of life and celebrate individuality as we know diverse minds, experiences and backgrounds help us to learn and better serve our communities. We want people who show up and get involve. Those who are ready to be part of something bigger and who want to make a difference because they care. Is that you?