Category Manager HR Services (Maule)

Category Manager HR Services

**Offer ID**:

- 65727

**Job**:

- Support Functions / Procurement and Supply Chain

**Contract type**:

- Permanent

**Schedule**:

- Full-Time

**Country**:

- United Kingdom

**Equans is looking for a Category Manager HR Services to join our team on a permanent basis. This is a full-time role working 37.5 hours per week. On offer is a competitive salary, company vehicle or allowance, bonus and benefits package.**

**This is a hybrid role**

The Category Manager will play a pivotal role in maximising the value of Procurement at Equans UK&I; by executing a structured, collaborative approach to category projects that optimises the procurement of similar products and services.

This pivotal role within the Procurement Function is essential in delivering a unified, centralised support service across a diverse, autonomous, and nationally dispersed organisation. Reporting directly to the Category HUB Leader, the role is specifically accountable for:

- **Strategic Management of the HR Services Category**: This involves conducting comprehensive spend analyses, assessing current and future business needs, and analysing supplier markets and industry dynamics to optimise procurement strategies
- **Supplier Engagement and Relationship Management**: Engage with the HR Services supply chain to identify those best positioned to fulfil Equans’ business requirements, overseeing these relationships to ensure continued alignment with quality, functionality, and cost-effectiveness standards
- **Value Chain Optimisation and Savings Generation**: Proactively identify opportunities to drive value across the entire procurement spectrum, prioritising cost savings through a structured Category approach, with a focus on achieving transparent and measurable results
- **Innovation**: Champion the integration of innovative solutions to enhance customer offerings within the HR Service categories
- **Stakeholder Management**

**What will you deliver?**
- Strategic management of the HR Services category: analysis of spend & business needs, anticipation of future needs, supplier market analysis and market dynamics
- Management of the related supply chain, contract extension/renewal, launch and drive end to end RFP/RFQ processes, etc
- Leading the development of procurement strategies in close cooperation with business operations and procurement stakeholders activating all spend reduction levers
- Defining and implementing an action plan to deploy strategies for BUs/entities to effectively reduce their external spend on the category and/or mitigate market increases
- Steering economic performance (external spend reduction), supplier performance on category
- Adapting strategy in response to changes (market, internal budgets, technologies)
- Supporting operational entities in the implementation and monitoring of supplier policy defined for the category
- Delivering large scale programme such as the renewal of our UK Purchase to Pay system, renegotiation of our mobile telephony contract, appointment of UK LMS system provider, printer transformation programme, etc
- Assist the Delivery and Commercial teams in efficient subcontract procurement
- Work to and support supply chain deals, working with procurement department to ensure the BU achieves the best potential in terms of supplier arrangements
- Understand and protect the companies commercial and legal position in relation to its contractual engagement with supply chain arrangements clearly setting out the terms and proposals
- Oversee and manage the recovery of retrospective rebates with regards
- Setting annual rebate collection targets
- Promoting rebate arrangements across group to maximise utilisation
- Provide pre-tender specialist commercial input as required to ensure accurate net cost pricing
- Support subcontractor procurement by benchmarking and interrogating costs to ensure additional contribution opportunities are realized (re-invigoration of cost benchmarking database and e-procurement)
- Attend and participate in Design Team Meetings to influence and steer specifications towards most commercially advantageous products
- Maintain and publish regular and accurate reports demonstrating the effectiveness of strategic sourcing arrangements and contribution to the group profit improvement / efficiency plan
- Monitor supplier / category expenditures and trends
- Build and maintain excellent supplier relations

**What can we offer you?**

On offer is a competitive salary, car or car allowance, bonus and benefits package, which includes;
- 25 days annual leave (+ public holidays)
- Life Cover equivalent to 2 times annual salary
- Employee discount shopping schemes on major brands and retailers
- Gym membership discounts
- Cycle to work scheme
- Holiday purchase scheme
- 2 corporate social responsibility days per year
- Broad range of learning opportunities, such as professional qualifications, collective/individual training, and personalized support pro Postúlate en Kit Empleo: kitempleo.cl/empleo/1d9vh1