Category Manager

Vacancy - Category Manager – Commercial Assets (Fleet, Plant, Marine and Transport)

Are you an experienced CIPS Qualified Procurement professional with a passion for driving forward a sustainable, value-adding and resilient supply chain? Do you thrive in a fast-paced, results-driven environment? We're seeking a Category Manager to lead procurement activities for around £90 million of spend on Commercial Assets, Fleet, Plant, Marine and Transport, ensuring our operations are running efficiently and cost-effectively whilst achieving the business need.

Your role

Reporting to our new Group Head of Procurement, you will work collaboratively with stakeholders to develop category strategies and plans, and strategic supply initiatives and partnerships to fully leverage Peel Ports Group’s investment in commercial assets and services across  fleet, plant, marine and transport, ensuring optimum value for money.

You will engage with stakeholders to align business strategy and policy to support the delivery of category plans.  You will build strong supplier relationships to drive value and innovation in all activities, ensuring contractual compliance and proactive supplier management across a diverse portfolio of contracts and agreements.

You will provide commercial expertise to support leaders and managers to recognise and mitigate commercial risks.

What you'll bring

You will be CIPS qualified with experience of developing and delivering category plans  and strategies ideally within the commercial assets space (fleet, plant, marine vessels)  or similar.  You will have the ability to interpret stakeholder and business needs into clear procurement requirements,  and  deliver innovation and operational efficiencies through effective market and trend analysis, . You will have the proven ability to influence and work collaboratively with senior level stakeholders and experience of using supplier relationship management methods to support continuous improvement, delivering value and operational efficiency.  Experience of implementing  best in class  procurement policies, processes and governance models, previous exposure to working within a Regulated Procurement or  Port environment would be an advantage.

Who are we?

Already one of the UK’s leading port and logistics companies, our business contains a number of Statutory Harbour Authorities (SHAs) and as such operate within a Regulated environment.  We are planning substantial capital investment over the next 5 years to achieve our vision of becoming the UK’s leading port operator.  We have ambitious plans to grow and transform the supply chain to benefit our customers.  Our investments are decarbonizing our operations, which in turn is helping us work towards our goal of having Net Zero Port Operations by 2040.  Much of our success depends on our unrivalled facilities and technology. But in our sector, it comes down to having the right talent to enable our organisation to grow.

What we can offer you

In addition to a competitive salary, we have a strong track record of developing our people to expand their skills and experience and develop their careers.  Valuing and rewarding our workforce is important to us which is why we offer a fantastic range of flexible benefits to choose from, such as:

• 27 days holiday per annum (plus bank holidays)
• Pension
• Peel Ports Flexible Benefits including salary sacrifice car scheme, healthcare cash plans, Cycle2Work Scheme, critical illness insurance, gyms, retail vouchers
• Commitment to learning and personal development 
• We promote good physical and mental health and can provide additional support to colleagues via our employee assistance programme when required

If you believe you have the skills and experience we are seeking and you want to join a thriving and ambitious place to work, we’d really like to hear from you!