Regional Category Manager - Sales

Your Impact

You will aim to achieve better outcomes by delivering sourcing activities and proposing innovative ways to reduce costs and deliver budgeted savings and value-added benefits, in the trade marketing, sales and commercial capex spend. In addition, you will strive to improve the quality and service level from the supplier base and innovate on process and systems.

Key responsibilities

• To design and deploy a new category management framework that supports the Trade Marketing / Sales category
• Partner with key stakeholders to understand internal business requirements and determine and develop best sourcing and category management strategy
• Ensure the category delivers the forecast benefits derived from sourcing initiatives and to drive further category productivity over the term of the contract
• Innovate on and challenge all current internal business requirements to offer optimised approach to buying and new ways of working that will improve productivity
• Propose continuous improvement opportunity of either systems/process as they relate to the Procurement sourcing process
• Be responsible for the end-to-end sourcing activity including negotiations and approval of recommendations
• Support and/or lead the implementation of SRM to deliver performance management, continuous improvement and innovation objectives.

About You

With solid experience in Sourcing or Procurement roles, you will have a demonstrated achievement of improvements, and management of supplier relationship.

Previous experience in sourcing trade marketing and sales services and materials: print, inventory items, warehousing services and commercial capex as a procurement business partner or as part of a previous commercial role.

In addition, you will have;

• Exceptional written and verbal communication, combined with well-developed people leadership & influencing skil
• An understanding of change management practices
• Exceptional analytical, conceptual and problem-solving skills