# Category Manager - Facilities Management

**Company**: Biffa
**Location**: Preston, England
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Waste Management
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4904749

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## Description

The Category Manager is responsible for developing and implementing category strategies for Facilities Management services and related procurement spend across Biffa.

Your core responsibilities:

- Develop a detailed understanding of specific key spend areas and subsequently tender, negotiate and award contracts

- Deliver annual savings targets and supplier quality and delivery expectations

- Develop and maintain an overall set of category strategies to continue to drive cost out, mitigate risk and encourage innovation on a multi-year basis

- Manage sustainability requirements and ensure compliance with SBTi targets

- Ensure accurate reporting of savings delivery and maintain excellent stakeholder relationships

- Ensure compliance with processes, standards and systems as determined by the Procurement Excellence team.

Essential requirements:

- Over 5 years experience of strategic Procurement in a category-management based model with specific knowledge of one of the specific category areas

- Degree educated and CIPS Qualified

- Experience in waste management, manufacturing or logistics organisations preferable

- Strong negotiation skills with the ability to influence stakeholders within matrix organisations

- Experience of major supplier relationships and ability to interact at account manager level with large supplier partners

## Skills

### Required
- strategic procurement
- category management
- contract negotiation
- supplier relationship management
- sustainability management

### Nice to have
- waste management
- manufacturing
- logistics
- CIPS qualification

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