Senior Procurement Manager

About the Role

Reporting into the Procurement Director for the UK, the successful Senior Procurement Managerwill be responsible for delivery of Category Management policy & governance across the Tarmac business and supporting the wider CRH Procurement Category Management framework. You will be a procurement expert to deliver business objectives with responsibility for how Tarmac delivers Category Management across all 11 categories that align with CRH.

What you'll be doing

In this role, you as the successfulSenior Procurement Manager will be carrying out the following duties and responsibilities (not exhaustive)

• Developing and implementing Category Management strategies and governance across Tarmac

• Managing the policy and governance for category management in Tarmac

• Providing coaching and guidance to Category Managers & Assistant Category Managers for assigned categories totalling over 500m annualised spend

• Working on the direct ownership and management of the category leads for fleet & logistics, FM & Estates and General Services including strategy development, delivery of best value and driving cost reduction

• Working closely with the Procurement Director, Category Managers and the business todeterminesourcing needs, capturing synergy opportunities and leveraging the economies of scale

• Covering the delivery of category roadmaps and the 5-stage sourcing process ensuring the category managers are following Procurement processes

• Driving annual cost savings projects and other wider procurement benefits

• Leading aspects of functional management and development plus engagement responsibility with one of the business regions

• Developing a best-in-class expertise and global market knowledge for assigned categories
• Building strong and effective relationships both with internal customers and external supply partners

What we are looking for

We are looking for a Senior Procurement Manager who is ideally:

• You will be a key liaison into the CRH Category Management Teams, so strong stakeholder management and engagement is a must

• Established management experience within procurement and/or category/commodity management function
• Able to deal with ambiguity when required and being flexible to change approach in a demanding environment
• Strong organisational and project management capability

Tarmac, a CRH company, is an equal opportunity employer.We arecommittedto creating aninclusivework environment for all employees andactivelyencourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Please click on the apply button to complete your application.Occasionally we receive a large volume of applications for our roles and when this happens we sometimes bring the published closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.

Tarmac Trading Limited