Group Strategic Sourcing Category Manager
Are you an experienced procurement professional looking for a new challenge? Oxford Instruments is currently seeking a Group Strategic Sourcing Category Manager to join our dynamic team. In this role, you will have the opportunity to develop and lead business relationships both externally with suppliers and internally across our Group Business Units. Reporting to the Group Senior Category Manager you will build strong working relationships with various stakeholders, including Managing Directors, Operations Directors, Engineering & NPD Directors, Financial Directors, supply chain managers, business unit buyers, and engineering managers. As the GSS Category Manager, your main responsibility will be to provide strategic sourcing leadership to the Oxford Instruments Group businesses. You will drive projects across assigned categories to minimize cost and risk while maximizing quality, service, and sustainability. Collaborating with business unit leaders and managing cross-functional teams, you will develop value-adding projects for the allocated categories and ensure their execution aligns with OI's strategies. Additionally, you will work with Engineering leaders to design, develop, and implement a Group-wide Category Strategy. It is crucial that all activities are in line with Group Strategic Sourcing policies and procedures, and you will be responsible for completing Business Approval Forms to ensure project governance.
Job Details
Responsibilities
- Provide strategic sourcing leadership across the Group businesses
- Drive cost improvement and special projects across assigned categories
- Own key supplier relationships and manage electronic category responsibilities
- Plan category sourcing strategies aligned to group strategy
- Lead cross-functional activities with suppliers including value engineering and NPI early engagement
- Drive continuous improvement of sourcing practices within the assigned category
- Collaborate with business leaders to implement strategies and ensure governance
- Develop, maintain, and report on supplier spend performance
- Manage the Group Approved Vendor List
- Be accountable for category management including supplier selection and strategy setting
Requirements
- Experience within Electronics procurement with a strong technical and market understanding
- Experience within procurement functions, preferably in handling highly technical categories
- Experience with complex outsourcing projects, up to and including system level
- Experience in developing supplier strategies in complex and technical categories
- Proven success in delivering NPI, Design for Value and cost improvement projects with new supplier development activities
- Understanding of sourcing policies and procedures
- Strategic and analytical mindset, with good researching skills
- Understanding of commercial and financial aspects of direct/indirect procurement
- Ability to work effectively in a team environment
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills
- Ability to influence diverse groups of people and resolve conflicts tactfully
- Knowledge of business environment and requirements
- Demonstrated ability to work and build supplier relationships
- Results-oriented, proactive, and dynamic, with a sense of urgency
- Knowledge of Compliance requirements within Electronics category
- Understanding of business Sustainability and how that need to be applied within the supply chain
- Strong analytical skills for understanding complex BOM structures & quote review etc
- Business process standardisation and ability to follow & develop processes internally and externally
- Ideally, degree educated in a related field
- MCIPs preferred but not essential
Skills & Technologies
Education Level
Bachelor
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