Junior Category Manager
Job Introduction
Junior Category Manager
As a Junior Category Manager with Sodexo you are an AWESOME Influencer, negotiator and relationship builder. To be successful in this role it’s not essential that you have previous Procurement or Supply Management experience.
You will work with both regional and global category teams along with the SES Platform to help develop and implement the UK Supply Management Category Strategies and play a key role in helping deliver the SES Category Managements teams financial targets.
Join Sodexo and be part of something greater. You belong in a team where you can act with purpose and thrive in your own way.
Role Responsibility
What you will be doing
To support the buying/tendering process across the wider team to help gain additional experience.
Work with key strategic Sub-contractors, Suppliers and distributers, covering due diligence, tender set up & issue, supplier meetings & negotiations along with final contract award
Support wider category spend analysis for category managers
Responsible for contract documentation set up and new product set up
The Ideal Candidate
What you will bring
Brilliant communication and articulation skills
Confident speaking and presenting to a range of people across different cultures (suppliers, stakeholders, supply management colleagues)
Ambition and drive with a strong passion & desire to build a career in the procurement and supply management profession
Great financial acumen and commercially savvy with a passion for achieving (and over achieving) results
Highly proficient on Excel MS Teams and MS office package with a keen eye for detail
The ability to work efficiently, collaboratively and autonomously in a remote working environment managing your time well
Package Description
In return for your hard work and commitment, you’ll be rewarded with a competitive salary of £35'000 per annum plus access to range of benefits, including:
The opportunity to work alongside a qualified knowledgeable team enabling you to take advantage of amazing career development and opportunities for progression,
- · Performance-related bonus
- · Contributory pension scheme
- · Life assurance
- · Volunteering days via our charity partner STOP HUNGER
- · Numerous voluntary benefits, including dental care, gym discounts, retail / hospitality, and many more
- We also offer Sodexo Discounts site promoting discounted mobile phone tariffs, savings across restaurant chains and days out, where you and your family can save money on everything from your weekly food shop to the latest cinema blockbuster and much more
We also offer Sodexo Discounts site promoting discounted mobile phone tariffs, savings across restaurant chains and days out, where you and your family can save money on everything from your weekly food shop to the latest cinema blockbuster and much more
About the Company
In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs around 30,000 people, and partners with clients in many sectors across business and industry; schools and universities; sports and leisure; energy and resources; government and agencies; healthcare; justice and defence.
Sodexo’s connected; people-centric approach brings together a diverse range of expertise. The breadth of services it offers ranges from food and hospitality; cleaning; reception; concierge (Circles); security; property management and technical services through to data driven workplace strategy and design (Wx); employee engagement and recognition services (Sodexo Engage) and personal home services through Prestige Nursing + Care and the Good Care Group.
Vital Spaces is Sodexo’s value proposition that puts people at the heart of everything we do, bringing together services and solutions and focusing on the productivity and wellbeing of people wherever they are.
Sodexo is committed to being an inclusive employer; we welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities.
We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations.
We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process
