Category Manager

Job Introduction

At Tarmac, ‘who you are’ matters.  We want to get to know you.  If you share our values and are proud of a job well done, collaborative in working well with others and ambitious to make things better, then have a read of what we have on offer. 

We are currently looking for a Category Manager this will be based at our Solihull office reporting into Senior Procurement Manager – Cement & Sustainability.

We’re working hard to create a dynamic and inclusive environment and it’s important that our people come from a variety of different backgrounds.

Role Responsibility

• Expert management of strategic relationships with key country suppliers to drive value aligned to the objectives of the organisation.
• Proactively engage and influence stakeholders, including Excom, CRH Category Cluster teams and local cross functional teams to deliver sourcing initiatives.
• Own the category end-to-end, including Sustainability, SRM and Contract Management driving contract compliance and long term value-add and innovation.
• Be seen in the business as the expert in category knowledge, and able to, demonstrate in-depth knowledge & understanding of all areas of spend within the category cluster.
• Effective communication with end user stakeholders to ensure business needs & requirements are understood.
• Maximise value of contracts through compliance activity, proactive business engagement and responsiveness to stakeholders.
• Drive procurement KPI performance management through contract management and create a culture of continuous improvement with tangible results.
• Ensure highest ethical principles and standards are implemented.
• Drive execution of CRH regional and global strategies. Lead the coordination all category activities within a country during bid and project execution phases.
• Drive category cluster synergies across UK businesses and IRE cluster.

The Ideal Candidate

• Educated to a degree in business or technical.
• Ideally MCIPS qualified.
• 5-8 years Procurement Experience
• Experience in category management in a multi country organisation
• Fluent written and verbal English is a must, other languages a plus
• Willing to cooperate in international projects.
• Experience in multiple industry sectors considered a plus

Tarmac Trading Limited