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Facilities & Real Estate Category Manager
Life Unlimited. At Smith+Nephew we design and manufacture technology that takes the limits off living.
The Facilities & Real Estate Category Manager (CM) is responsible for elements of the spend, strategic planning and leadership of selected initiatives within the Facilities & Real Estate Category. The scope of the Facilities & Real Estate CM role includes responsibility for associated expenditure within the parameters of the role. Specifically, but not exhaustively, the Facilities & Real Estate CM has responsibility for stakeholder and supplier engagement activities associated with Facilities & Real Estate such as Janitorial Services, Pest Control, Waste Management, Facilities Services, Office supplies, Utilities, Archiving & Shredding. The Facilities & Real Estate CM supports the development of the Facilities & Real Estate Category strategy owned by Facilities & Real Estate GCM. The Facilities & Real Estate CM establishes and proactively manages key business stakeholder relationships, leads proactive sourcing projects, influences specification definition & demand management, as well as managing Category specific supplier performance and innovation activities. The Facilities & Real Estate CM will be based in UK or US & reports directly to the Facilities & Real Estate GCM.
What will you be doing?
- Responsible for providing Procurement Category input into the Global Category Manager in order to inform the functional objective setting process
- Accountable for the delivery of specific elements of the Facilities & Real Estate Categories target following engagement in the target setting process
- Responsible for the collection of suppliers, supply market, category and internal business data and information for elements of the Facilities & Real Estate Categories
- Responsible for supporting the development of the Global Category Strategy for Facilities & Real Estate, including relevant stakeholder approval (members of the Facilities & Real Estate LT)
- Responsible for the communication of distribution of selected Category specific strategies to the relevant stakeholders (members of the Facilities & Real Estate LT)
- Accountable for identifying key supplier risks within the Facilities & Real Estate Categories and agreeing mitigating activities with the relevant business stakeholders
- Accountable for ensuring that any supplier performance risks and issues are resolved on a timely basis
- Responsible for supporting the development and the execution of selected projects based on the Facilities & Real Estate Category strategies and supporting business planning activities that feed into the Annual Procurement Category Plan for Facilities & Real Estate
- Accountable for ensuring the Category projects agreed to within the Global Facilities & Real Estate Category Strategies are executed in a timely basis in line with the targeted goals
- Responsible for leading proactive sourcing activity for the Facilities & Real Estate Categories
- Responsible for supporting the establishment of the overall Facilities & Real Estate Category segmentation and identification of key supplier relationships
- Accountable for supporting the implementation of consistent KPIs for the Facilities & Real Estate Categories
- Accountable for the management of selected strategic Facilities & Real Estate Category supplier relationships, as agreed in the supplier segmentation process
- Responsible for proactively supporting the S&N innovation agenda with strategic suppliers within the Facilities & Real Estate Categories, in line with S&N objectives
- Responsible for the creation, application, completion and review of major contracts for the Facilities & Real Estate Categories
- Accountable for ensuring that relevant activities delivered by Regional Implementation team members / GBS Procurement team members within the Facilities & Real Estate Categories are in line with the overall Category strategy
- Accountable for ensuring negotiated contracts are clearly communicated to business stakeholders for the Facilities & Real Estate Categories, and that they are consistently applied
- Responsible for monitoring compliance and adherence to Smith & Nephew Procurement policies and procedures within the Facilities & Real Estate Categories
- Responsible for ensuring internal issues within the Facilities & Real Estate Categories are addressed and resolved in a timely manner
What will you need to be successful?
Education:
- Bachelor s degree required at a minimum, in fields such as business administration, finance, law or a scientific or technical field. Strong preference for CIPS or similar professional qualification.
Experience
- 3+ years of experience in a Procurement environment