Procurement Category Manager
  • England,North East,Tyne and Wear,Newcastle upon Tyne
  • full-time
  • Competitive salary
Job Description:
The Company
Nigel Wright Group are working with a dynamic, forward thinking and long established multinational brand to recruit a Procurement Category Manager

Hybrid Working (3 days per week office-based - Flexible Working - Bonus Package - Enhanced Pension

The Opportunity
Working within a well established Procurement Team, taking full ownership for specific indirect categories:
*Strategic procurement of key categories within Marketing
*Developing and delivering procurement strategy
*Contract negotiation and management
*Supplier performance management/development 
*Acting as a true commercial partner to interdepartmental stakeholders, providing guidance and project support
*Managing and contributing to broader project activity as required

About You
The Procurement Category Manager role would be ideally suited to a Procurement professional:
*With either end to end Marketing procurement experience OR a solid knowledge of procurement process, contract management within Indirects with an ability to learn new categories quickly
*Enthusiastic, confident communicator – able to engage with/build relationships with senior level internal and external stakeholders
*Tenacious, energetic and diligent, proactive, assertive self starter, accustomed to working at pace and to ’hitting the ground running’
*Inquisitive, detailed and analytical 
*Good sense of humour, team player, engaging ’people’ person
Job number 1699765
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Company Details:
Nigel Wright Group
Company size: 100–249 employees
Industry: Recruitment Consultancy
As the preferred talent partner for over 35 years, Nigel Wright Group has significant experience in connecting great people to great opportunities. We...
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