Senior Category Manager

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Role: Senior Category Manager 

Located: Northampton / Hybrid

Package: Competitive pay, plus bonus and excellent company benefits

About Ricoh:

Ricoh is a global technology business. As a company born in print, we design and manufacture graphic solutions that transform communications. To keep up with the pace of change in the workplace, we have built an extensive portfolio of innovative, industry-leading digital services spanning everything from Cloud & IT infrastructure solutions to process automation tools.

Everything we do is designed to help individuals achieve fulfilment through work. Through technology, we make work smarter and more creative. Enabling people to lead purposeful working lives and organisations to become more productive, sustainable and profitable.

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What you will be doing

Maintain strong collaborative relationships with key stakeholders across the business to strategically develop and optimise procurement strategies
Develop category management strategies to enable supplier selection, supplier reduction and spend reduction initiatives on a divisional basis to leverage best value to optimise margins and reduce operating costs
Develop divisional spend portfolio assessments to enable detailed understanding of spend trends and to determine future product and service requirements
Implement effective end-to-end supplier management strategies inclusive of contract management, commercial negotiation, request for proposals and performance management to ensure best value and strategic partnerships aligned to Ricoh’s values
Support the development of supplier and vendor rebate strategies seeking to maximise rebate levels
Support the development of a supplier engagement programme focused on Ricoh’s core values
Adopt supplier management software to centralise supplier management records including contract management, commercial agreements, performance management and risk and compliance management to protect Ricoh’s brand
Lead, coach and develop a team of professional employees to ensure levels of expertise meet the current and future needs of the team, department and business
Ensure high employee satisfaction, trust and engagement by the use of good people practices aligned to Ricoh’s core competencies and the department’s own values
Deputise for Procurement Manager during times of absence

We are an equal opportunities employer

We are an equal opportunities employer

We are open to discussing adjustments to the recruitment process if needed. No applicant or employee will be treated less favourably than another on the grounds of a protected characteristic which are defined as sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender reassignment, trade union membership or non-membership, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race and religion or belief.

Striving for inclusion and diversity isn’t just the right thing to do. Diverse approaches, perspectives and experiences make us more innovative, lead to better decisions and help us better understand the needs of our customers.

To empower you to bring your full identity to work, we have employee-led affinity groups in LGBTQ+, gender and ethnicity that allow members to explore issues and challenges surrounding shared identities, experiences and beliefs