Pixel Health - Procurement Manager

Principal Accountabilities :

- Identify the category strategy and a rolling programme of areas to be addressed within the procurement category

- Establish and lead cross-functional teams to manage the development and implementation of the procurement category strategy and agree the strategy with the Head of Procurement and internal customer departments

- Deliver the procurement category strategy including sourcing activities which generate benefits and achieve financial savings targets through insight and analysis of category and sub categories areas, including:

- Analysis of procurement spend and supply base to establish suppliers per procurement category and sub category

- Analysis of supply markets to identify potential suppliers and market trends

- Identification of internal and external cost drivers in the categories Category Manager - Technical

- Development of savings opportunities and benchmarking of industry standards and practices to identify quick win opportunities

Use leading practice procurement tools to develop and implement the sourcing strategies including :

- Supply market positioning

- Supply base profiles

- Supplier assessment

- Supplier financial analysis

- Request For Information (RFI), Request For Proposal (RFP), Request For Quotation (RFQ)

- Service level agreements

- Summary of quotations

- Cost analysis

- Objective decision making

- Procurement process for the procurement category and sub categories

Negotiate contractual agreements with suppliers to ensure that service, quality, added value, total cost, security of supply and the deployment of the suppliers capabilities in innovation are secured g. Manage and develop supplier relationships and ongoing negotiations, for the procurement category and sub categories, using leading practice procurement tools (such as cost trend analysis, price change analysis and supplier performance reviews) to deliver breakthrough performance in cost, service and quality; keep internal customers informed and involved in ongoing supplier management

- Identifying best practice and leveraging spend

- Assist with the development of new processes, procedures and solutions for the purchasing system and identify any category specific requirements.

Knowledge, skill and experience :

Education qualifications : Educated to degree level

Professional/technical qualification/skills :

- Recognized as a procurement professional

- In depth knowledge of procurement within their procurement category

- Excellent analytical skills

- Excellent interpersonal skills

- Good influencing skills at senior levels to influence acceptance of a new way of working

- Project Management skills

- Excellent negotiating and influencing skills, at all levels, are essential.

- Good IT skills to include wide experience of word documents, Excel spreadsheets (including pivot tables and charts) and PowerPoint

- Excellent planning and organisational skills

Experience :

- Experience of working to deliver a new Procurement strategy is desirable

- Significant previous procurement experience with responsibility for delivery of a procurement category strategy and procurement category benefits including financial savings.

- Demonstrated experience in the specific procurement category

- Experience of managing a procurement category in at least one blue-chip organisation that has crossed functional and business boundaries.

- Experience of working with a fragmented user base in multiple locations.

- Experience of working in a complex environment with a high level of uncertainty around predicted or future purchase requirements.

- Significant experience of supplier management