Category Manager
We are currently working with a large local authority who require the interim assistance of some Category Managers. They require the candidate to have the following skillset:
Experience of:
- Leading, motivating and achieving results through a diverse team of professionals
- Working and leading on strategic projects as part of cross-functional teams, ensuring value for money in service provision
- Progressing project work to deadline understanding the need to balance both quantative and qualitative data
- Leading and managing complex projects with a record of successful implementation
- Working in a multi-agency and multi-disciplinary environment
- Working professionally at a senior level in a complex organisation with direct contact with senior managers, Members and other stakeholders
- Generating ideas, introducing innovation and driving process, systems, organisational and cultural change
- Interacting and negotiating with senior managers
- EU tendering/contracting procedures
- Delivering projects, initiatives and programmes through working application to CPS toolkits and procedures
Specialist knowledge of:
- Public/Private Sector procurement law and policy e.g., EU regulations
- Statutory and public/private sector financial regulations, procedures and principles
- Public/Private Sector policy/law environment e.g., value for money, sustainability, Council procurement rules, Procurement Strategy etc.
- Relevant and diverse markets and the ability to exploit them across all sectors (private, public and third sector)
- Internal/external risks, understanding and prioritising how to manage and mitigate risks before they become issues
- Public/Private Sector financial and efficiency programmes and the impact of these on procurement
- A broad spectrum of goods and services with at least one specialist area of in-depth knowledge
Full JD and list of works available upon request.
Start: ASAP
Duration: 3-6 months
Rate: £450 per day via an umbrella company (Inside IR35)
Fully Remote Working
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