Category Manager - Indirects

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Exciting opportunity to flex your procurement expertise; take ownership on specific category spend across a large group.

Summary about this job

Purchasing, Procurement & Inventory

Company: Fletcher Building Limited

Location: Auckland

Work type: Full Time

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Phone: +64-3-532-1073

Fax: +64-6-369-1370

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Detail information about job Category Manager - Indirects. Terms and conditions vacancy

Work with newly created categories
Lead the development and execution of category strategies
Penrose Location; Onsite Parking; Competitive Salary

The Company

The Fletcher Building family is a community made up of people who use all of their experience, skills and individuality to do amazing work. With over 30 businesses, we are enriched by many different languages, customs and lifestyles.

The company is dual-listed on the Australian and New Zealand stock exchanges and employs 21,000 people in more than 40 countries through over 30 business units. There has never been a better time to join the Fletcher Building family where our people are proud to say, “We made it”.

The Role

This is an exciting role to lead the development and execution of category management strategies to realise the benefits and opportunities to add real commercial value.

Taking responsibility for defining and leading the procurement of a multi-million dollar indirects category, including; travel, professional services and commercial fleet management. You will;

Manage relationships with a number of key stakeholders to ensure their requirements are met and contracts are leveraged across many business units. This will include;

Producing category management plans
Leading the execution of category strategy,
Leading the go-to-market initiatives, negotiations and supplier relationship management.
Your focus on procurement best practice will, in turn, deliver cost savings and increased value to the business units.

About you

You will be a self-starter who is comfortable working autonomously whilst having a propensity to build strong stakeholder and supplier relationships. Tech savvy with the ability to analyse data using Excel and ERP systems, you will also have;

Indirect categories procurement expertise, ideally in travel and professional services (3 years+)
Knowledge and understanding of procurement process and activities
Highly effective influencing, negotiation and persuasion skills along with the demonstrated capability for decision making, sound judgment and assertiveness.
Proven ability to manage workload in order to meet timescales

This is an opportunity to work within a high performing, delivery oriented team. Through this you will gain solid and robust exposure and experience relating to best practice procurement methodologies for a large, complex group (1000+ sites).

Sound interesting? Sound like you? Hit apply.

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