Category Executive

Category Executive, Team Executive, Procurement Executive, Procurement Administrator, Team Administrator, Category Administrator, Administrator, Procurement, Category, Procurement Regulations, Supplier Relationships

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join a high profile client in Newport. The Category Executive will be responsible for managing categories within a specified area, ensuring that procurements are let in accordance with the Public Procurement Regulations

Key responsibilities:

- Maintain and manage supplier relationships and monitoring supplier performance.
- Identifying and ensuring a compliant route to market, ie frameworks are being utilised, contracts are in place.
- Ensure full compliance with EU procurement regulations.
- Support other Category Execs, when/if necessary, with the procurement activities to ensure deadlines achieved
- Support the Category Team as a whole with the storage and management of procurement information for ease of access and re-use.
- Identify operational and process problems and ensure problems are resolved at root cause.
- Identify and manage project risks and issues
- Maintain an awareness of organisational and wider government initiatives/policy in relation to the production of framework and services agreements.
- Communicate progress, issues and risks to customers/stakeholders in a timely and effective manner
- Complete timeline plans for each procurement and manage time and resource to deliver procurements within SLA.
- Support Category Lead with the gathering, co-ordination, preparation and delivery of information and adhoc reports

Key Skills and Experiences:

- Experience of data analysis and reporting and the ability to interpret financial information for self and team
- Skills in Building & Developing Customer, Supplier and Stakeholder relationships
- Good numeracy skills with the ability to confidently handle numbers and/or undertake complex statistical analysis
- Knowledge of procurement processes - experience of working within a procurement environment, and particularly within a government agency, would be highly beneficial.
- Solid IT skills in a Microsoft Windows environment, particularly Word, Excel, PowerPoint to support data analysis and reporting
- Good oral and written communication skills with the ability to communicate at a variety of levels including presentation skills
- A procurement qualification such as MCIPS or Certificate of Competence in Procurement Practise would be desirable

Do not hesitate to apply. Please send your CV in the first instance

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