Category Manager

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Job Description

We are News UK: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland, our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, talkRADIO and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. In 2022 we launched TalkTV, a major new TV channel available to everyone across the UK, delivering a schedule of news, current affairs, entertainment and sport, with Piers Morgan in a primetime evening show. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning digital and print, audio and video, events and experiences, our brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.

Our Finance Teams: Our Finance team has a large part to play in the success of our business. We are based across a few locations, but operate as one team, and work together to create a positive, productive and highly efficient finance department within News UK.

Role Objectives

• Procurement of technology based current and future suppliers - predominately software solutions/services and professional services, whilst also supporting broadcasting based current and future suppliers.
• Working in collaboration with end business units, specifically central Technology and Editorial Digital Products, MarTech, Broadcasting.
• Grow and develop range of categories supported by procurement
• Delivering cost savings and cost avoidance on categories under procurement management.
• Ensuring full supplier due diligence and adherence to company policies through collaborative work with SME areas, specifically H&S&S, finance, legal, cyber security and DPO to Liaise with business units in the deployment of programs and cost management/sign off.
• Completion of governance documents as required.
• Completion of procurement savings/activity reports.
• Work in collaboration with affiliate and parent company as required for cross entity/global programs
• Become a trust procurement advisor for category responsibilities

Key Skills

• In-depth procurement knowledge of technology based goods and services. The focus for this role is predominately software solutions and services and professional services, whilst also supporting broadcasting.
• Full lifecycle and project management of sourcing programs, including spend analysis, tender and commercial negotiations. This will be from light basic profiles to large scale complex programs.
• Responsible for internal financial analysis, specific market benchmark information and business case profile to support new spend review initiatives
• Commercially astute and strong negotiation skills
• Basic contract Knowledge (Essential)
• Ideally at level 4 CIPS qualification or above

Key Behaviours

• Self Starter, must be able to work on your own initiative (Essential)
• Excellent ability to build and manage relationships internally and externally (Essential)
• Passionate about the work you do, embracing every opportunity to do your best work
• Principled in the way you go about your role and the decisions you make
• Purposeful with a strong desire to achieve and deliver work to a high standard

We offer a flexible working arrangement where employees are expected to be in the office a minimum of three days per week. For the remaining two days, there is the option to work remotely if desired.

Life at News

Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.

To do this, we believe our employees must represent different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. We strive to maximise and encourage every individual's potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy, which focuses on three main priorities - attracting talent from a wider, more representative pool, developing equity programmes to drive better representation in our leadership, and ensuring diversity and inclusivity in our workforce as well as the journalism and content we produce. We also currently have 12 employee led networks and groups that support our strategy and connect like minded employees socially.

Benefits

Some of our benefits include:

• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks
• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access
• Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions
• Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes
• 'Bikes for Work' and 'Electric Car' scheme
• Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books
• Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities
• Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling
• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%
• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year

We want to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to perform to their best when applying for a role. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or for us to do anything differently to support you apply for any of our roles please contact us on [email protected].