Category Manager

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Job Description

Managing multiple, concurrent projects in a fast-paced dynamic business critical category, you'll support the sourcing, procurement, contract assurance, implementation and post-contract management activities. You will co-ordinate end-to-end procurement management with a focus on Supplier Relationship Management and Sustainability. You'll be responsible for delivery of contract assurance including the delivery of best practice in respect to the drafting/editing/amending contracts and work packages and responsibility for monitoring contract compliance as part of contract and audit governance.

You'll support the creation and delivery of pre-contracting strategies, supplier negotiations, and supporting the Procurement governance process. Working closely with business stakeholders, you'll drive value for Heathrow to maximise delivery, minimise risk, delivery of benefits to the organisation through cost saving, fostering supplier relationships to drive compliance and improvement into Airport Operations.

Responsibilities

• Delivery of robust contractual documentation including drafting and negotiation, liaising with our legal departments, category stakeholders and support services including the delivery of all centralised contract amendments for the category for both Services and Products
• Maintaining effective category plans and developing innovative strategies which will be presented to relevant senior stakeholders, using creative commercial models, market leading technology and trends that will drive regulatory compliance and a competitive edge for the business
• Constructively challenging business plans and strategy documents with stakeholders and peers to ensure robustness of approach that maximises commercial opportunity and mitigates risk.
• Executing sourcing activity in line with Heathrow governance procedures, driving best in class behaviour
• Maintaining agreed processes for supplier management, delivery and measurement of benefits, savings and continuous improvement targets whilst meeting all contract, regulatory, risk-reward and exit strategy requirements
• Demonstrating data analytics for supplier performance, spend and contractual compliance

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience of multiple contracting models
• Experience managing multiple and concurrent projects to meet business affordability targets and achievement of Key Performance Indicators through strong Supplier Relationship Management
• Demonstrable Supplier Management experience

Ideally, you'll also have:

• Working knowledge of Aviation and associated supply chain(s), including Maintenance & Support, Product and Asset Management models and developing Innovation
• Understanding of a complex airport operation with an appreciation for its interdependencies across the organisation representing Procurement
• Experience with contractual documentation including bespoke contracts, Good and Services Frameworks, NEC based or similar industry standard contracts and relevant negotiation and drafting
• Working towards professional qualifications e.g., MRICS, MCIPS, APM, CEng or willingness to commit to pursuing development and training

About Us

There's something so special about working at the world's most iconic airport. Its sights. Its sounds. Its constant air of excitement. Heathrow is an amazing backdrop to a career filled with unique opportunities.

Every day, you'll discover a world full of fresh possibilities and end the day buzzing with stories to tell, as you encounter people from all cultures, nationalities and experiences. A world full of pride for what we do and no end of exciting career prospects to explore.

It brings out the best in all of us. And inspires everyone to deliver on our ambitious plans. Together, we're working to welcome millions more passengers while ensuring aviation can continue to be a force for good by leading global efforts in sustainability.

Join us on that journey and we'll help you achieve your ambitions too. Supporting you to learn, encouraging you to be yourself, backing you to achieve more than you might ever have imagined. Because there's no place like Heathrow.

Our rewards

We offer competitive salaries and excellent benefits that will support you now and in the future. As well as performance-based annual bonuses and our longer-term Share in Success Bonus plans, we also offer generous annual leave allowances and market-leading pensions. With family friendly policies, access to private health insurance and a wide range of wellbeing tools, we'll support you to be at your best inside and outside work. And of course, we'll provide varied learning and development opportunities too. Here you'll find everything you need for a fulfilling career journey that can take you in exciting directions.

Working Location

Our agile approach offers the opportunity to combine home working with meetings, events and training at the airport. All roles involve some on-site working each week, so you'll need to be based in the UK and within a commutable distance to Heathrow.

Sustainable Travel to work

Heathrow's Sustainable Travel Guide sets out easy and sustainable travel options that everyone can access.

Equal Opportunities

As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all. We believe that diverse talent makes us stronger - not least because we welcome passengers from all corners of the globe, every single day. Heathrow is an accessible place to work. With four diversity networks, we champion inclusivity and celebrate individuality.

About the Team

Together, we're working to welcome millions more passengers, while ensuring aviation can continue to be a force for good by leading global efforts in sustainability. At Heathrow, you can be part of this - providing solutions that make every journey better for millions each year. That means ensuring we meet the changing needs of the passengers, colleagues and partners who use our airport to work, travel, trade, shop, eat, explore and connect. Our Solutions team covers project management, process improvement, business change, technology, cyber defence, masterplanning, infrastructure and procurement. It brings together people with the skills to deliver prestigious and often large-scale projects, from transforming terminals to making big reductions in our carbon emissions.

Every day will test your skills and give you the opportunity to make your mark. You might be working with the technology and data that power our city within a city, driving vital commercial agreements with everyone from retailers to airlines, or improving the unique infrastructure that includes everything from 200 buildings to 250 HV substations. It's a collaborative environment, where you can rely on the support of the experts around you as you take on projects you'll both take pride in and feel passionate about.