Performance Manager/Category Manager

PERFORMANCE MANAGER/CATEGORY MANAGER
3 MONTHS - £325/DAY - £375/DAY

This new job position is with the Crown Commercial Services in Liverpool. It is due to start ASAP and will last a minimum of 3 months.

ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE:

- Ability to lead, engage and manage peers and more senior colleagues without the benefit of direct reporting lines
- Excellent analytical and research skills
- Work efficiently in a high pressured environment and deliver to strict deadlines and targets
- Outstanding stakeholder management, engagement and influencing skills in a complex customer and supplier environment
- Experience of successfully communicating category/business performance in meaningful ways to customers and stakeholders
- High level of IT literacy including Excel, Word and PowerPoint.

GENERAL EXPERIENCE:

- Required to demonstrate an all round understanding of the Advisory Services category.
- Required to demonstrate knowledge and an understanding of the implication of the Cabinet Office controls for Government spending.
- Responsibility for maintaining controls in line with government processes and suggesting and implementing amendments to existing processes and controls as required within the Category.
- Professionally present and able liaise at all levels and across Government Departments, delivering a complete service which demonstrates management of spend by Departments on external consultancy.
- Delivery of specific initiatives/targets, including spend, efficiency, supply performance and departmental compliance
- Maintaining departmental relationships to build, implement and deliver specific initiatives relating to spend, savings and performance management
- Management of departmental spend, savings and compliance reporting and resolution (escalation to Category lead where necessary)
- Management of staff performance and development â post holder will have staff management responsibilities and it is expected that the individual will have a key role in coaching and developing staff within the function
- Developing opportunities to improve Data Completeness, timeliness and Quality
- Deputise for Category lead as appropriate
- Operate within category management methodology by analysing detailed spend and transactional and pricing data
- Benchmarking data across the category to drive continuous improvement and measure success
- Proactive and auditable compliance with all corporate policies and procedures
- Monitoring of risks across the Advisory Services category
- Provide guidance and coaching to staff â set targets and support staff to achieve these
- Provide on the job coaching and training when required

KEY TASKS & DELIVERABLES

- Maintaining Consultancy Spending controls on behalf of the Cabinet Office and in line with the Consultancy Controls processes to support the strategy for reducing consultancy spend.
- Liaising at all levels and across Government Departments, delivering a comprehensive service to Departments to assist them in managing and reducing Consultancy and Contingent Labour spend
- Supporting the Lead in monitoring Departmental spend, and savings to include compliance reporting and resolution (escalation to category lead where necessary) applying initiative to resolve problems and managing relationships with major customers, suppliers or stakeholders.
- Lead the performance management of the Advisory Services Category including oversight of supplier management information, supplier relationship management, and key performance indicators.
-Management of data recording for both Consultancy Controls and Performance management to enable comprehensive and reliable responses to requests for information from a wide range of customers.
- Provide support to the Advisory Services category teams in times of high demand.
- Management of staff performance and development to include, objective setting/review and delivery of the controls process.
- Deputising for Category lead as appropriate

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