We have a great opportunity for you to join our Portakabin team as a Procurement Category Planner within our Procurement department. The role will be supporting Category Managers/Procurement Managers on specific categories, projects and procurement programmes on all aspects of market research, external/internal risk factors, supplier evaluation, supplier engagement, sourcing, contract management, RFX/ITT’s and pricing processes.
Role Details
- Salary: £30,000-£40,000
- Role based: York
- Contract type: Permanent
- Annual leave: 25 days plus bank holidays
Role Responsibilities
- Review nominated Tier 2/3 Categories to assess areas of opportunity to create a long term strategic Category plan to execute (with support from Category Manager/Procurement Manager).
- Develop relationships with key suppliers within nominated Categories and undertake supplier review meetings/reports.
- Supplier Evaluations including new or ongoing governance/compliance checks to assess risk on suppliers.
- Price/Cost Management/Impact Analysis including price variance analysis and standard costing.
- Carry out Request for Information (RFI), Request for Proposal (RFP) and Invitation to Tender (ITT) processes for nominated categories.
- Support Category Managers and Procurement Managers with market research on new suppliers and industry trends.
- Complete pricing information for upload into SAP by Central Procurement Office (CPO) team and provide support on the resolution on any pricing/invoice queries.
Benefits & Opportunities
- Option to buy 5 days of annual leave
- Working flexibly principles
- Contributory pension
- Annual bonus
- A range of dedicated health and wellbeing services
- Employee Assistance Program
- A chance to give back to your community with an annual Volunteering Day Off
- Fully funded professional qualifications and membership
- Cycle to Work Scheme
There is also great opportunity for career progression within Portakabin. Roughly one third of our roles are filled by internal candidates!
Our Ideal Candidate
We are looking for someone who has:
- Strong organisational and time management skills
- Manufacturing Procurement Knowledge
- Experience in SAP / ERP Systems
- A full UK Driving license (desirable)
- Strong IT skills
Even if you do not match all of our ‘ideal’ criteria we would still be very keen to receive your CV as we love developing our people and may feel that you could be developed into this role.
About Portakabin
As innovators in the science of building, we provide modular buildings for hire and sale, as well as supplying refurbished buildings and construction site accommodation. We deliver building solutions for organisations of any size, in sectors ranging from manufacturing, education and health to transport, utilities and construction.
Portakabin remains in the ownership of the York based Shepherd family and now employs more than 1,750 people across ten European countries.
Apply Now!
We’re keen to get someone started in this role. If you think this sounds like the ideal job for you, please apply as soon as possible as we may close this job advert early if we receive a high number of applications.
