Procurement Category Manager

Company description

Location: Basingstoke (hybrid working 2 office days per week)

Employment Type: Permanent, full time

Additional Benefits: Annual Bonus, Cash-Car Allowance & Private Medical Insurance

Thought The AA only provide roadside assistance? Think again.

For over 100 years, we’ve continued to evolve and adapt. Today, as the nation’s number one motoring organisation, we offer a range of excellent products and services to millions of customers from roadside assistance to home and motor insurance as well as providing the latest driving technologies. As we continue to expand, diversify, and modernise, joining us as a Procurement Manager (Roadside), you’ll play a key part to our success and join us on this exciting motoring journey.

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This is the job

Joining The AA as our Procurement Manager for Roadside, you will support the Head of Procurement Operations with delivering the Group Procurement strategy, ensuring the business maximises the value from third party spend, including cost reduction, working capital benefits, revenue generation and service delivery.

You will ensure supply security of key services and goods and support procurement operations activity across the business, leveraging procurement systems and driving compliance and continuous improvement.

The role will have significant impact on cost control, value delivery, supplier risk, compliance and business continuity related to the supply of goods and services to the AA group businesses.

What will I be doing?

• Support, develop and implement a Strategic Spend Management agenda (including annual category plans and 2–5-year roadmap) for the business spend area in line with corporate policies, procedures to achieve functional strategy and best value for money
• Business partnering with functional stakeholders, commercial finance leads to create sourcing strategies
• Lead on the sourcing strategy, selection, contract negotiation and execution, maintenance of suppliers for aligned business area to ensure appropriate supplier base who deliver to contractual agreement and outlined cost
• Lead and implement projects to support savings delivery and risk mitigation with ownership of a savings target and other key procurement metrics including payment terms
• Identify opportunities to generate efficiencies and improve cost and revenue, leveraging our preferred / or new suppliers to deliver cost reduction, provide market insight, revenue generation and operational efficiency
• Lead SRM for key strategic vendors and embed a robust performance management, working across boundaries where vendors are shared across categories
• Build strategic relationships with stakeholders, to understand business requirements, influence strategy and identify opportunities to create value and position procurement’s value proposition
• Working with the Procurement Analysts, leverage and maintain all MI and reporting data leveraging the SAP Ariba procurement system, including contracts, supplier classification and savings tracking

What do I need?

Essential:

• Strong, demonstrable experience of Procurement processes and full lifecycle sourcing and category management, including opportunity and risk identification
• Experience of partnering business teams with the building and delivery of procurement strategies with budgets more than £10M per annum
• Strong communication skills to negotiate contracts, influence suppliers and manage stakeholders of all levels
• Strong experience of managing supplier relationships and outcomes, through MI, KPI’s and SRM
• Experience of drafting and negotiating contracts
• Experience with understanding and challenging budgets; financial reporting of cost improvement on a P&L, covering CAPEX, OPEX, depreciation and cashflow

Additional Information

We’re always looking to recognise and reward our employees for the work they do. As a valued member of The AA, you will join and learn within a team that’s as driven as they are supportive and have access to a range of benefits including:

• Free AA breakdown membership from day one, 50% discount for family and friends in the first year plus discounts on other AA products
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays + the option to buy additional annual leave
• Dedicated Employee Assistance Programme and a 24/7 remote GP service for you and your family
• Pension scheme available up to 7% contribution
• Exclusive EV discount scheme
• Diverse learning and development opportunities to support you to progress in your career
• Access to employee inclusivity networks
• Dental and Critical Illness Insurance cover accessible for all AA colleagues

We’re an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from everyone. The AA values diversity and the difference this brings to our culture and our customers. We actively seek people from diverse backgrounds to join us and become part of an inclusive company where you can be yourself, be empowered to be your best and feel like you truly belong. We have five communities to bring together people with shared characteristics and backgrounds and drive positive change.

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