Procurement Category Manager

Company Description

**Let’s create a more sociable future together**

At Endeavour, we’re totally into what we do. With a portfolio that includes Dan Murphy’s, BWS, ALH Hotels, Pinnacle Drinks and more, we love to bring people together. Together we share our passion for our products and industry; it’s what inspires us to dream big, and continue to create new experiences for our customers and teams across Australia. If you thrive on positive energy, we want to meet you

**Job Description**:

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Bring your passion and feel the energy**:

- ** Utilise your extensive strategic sourcing experience and working understanding of category management.**:

- ** A motivated, collaborative team environment.**

Group Procurement enables our business by procuring all our Non-Trade Goods and Services.
As a **Category Manager**within the Procurement team, you will play a key role in leading, designing and delivering category strategies and commercial cost optimisation activities.
Both of which focus on stakeholder engagement, value realisation and risk mitigation.

This role will have a significant focus enabling our Marketing portfolio. Value will be delivered through running sourcing activities and negotiations, scope / specification review and demand management.

Sound good? Read on.

Here is a taster of what you can expect in this role:

- Understand the Endeavour business and cost drivers and in collaboration with business partners, create category strategies and execute sourcing events to deliver sustainable value.
- Influencing and mobilising key stakeholders to deliver impactful change.
- Extracting insights from complex analysis.
- Influencing decisions and through clear communications and presentations.
- Running sourcing activities and supplier negotiation.
- Develop, implement and manage vendor performance metrics, documents and reporting as part of a Supplier Relationship Management plan (metrics, compliance, continuous improvement plans).
- Anticipate and execute contract-based opportunities.
- Support ESG programs and activities.

**Qualifications**:
Now let’s talk about you:

- Procurement Category Management experience (minimum 5 years), ideally with an understanding of the Marketing portfolio.
- Have successfully developed, executed and managed category and sourcing strategies.
- An effective negotiator, communicator and people influencer, able to build relationships with stakeholders across all levels.
- A strategic thinker and self-starter with commercial acumen, you are able to navigate complex environments with ease.
- Are curious and willing to challenge whilst managing your time.
- You manage ambiguity well and can seek clarity with confidence.
- Have the desire to learn, develop and grow within the team.
- Exceptional written, verbal communication and presentation skills.
- Experience in Google Workspace and Coupa.
- Possess good spend data analytics.
- Membership of a Procurement affiliated body highly desirable.
- You will enjoy using your interpersonal and technical expertise to not just solve problems on paper, but drive solutions through to implementation. You are passionate about being an amazing business partner, building trust and creating procurement champions from peers and leaders.

**The benefits are good too**
- We offer flexible working in every sense
- An exclusive discount card for BWS, Dan Murphy’s, Woolworths, BIG W and other Endeavour Group brands, including our ALH pubs
- Monthly meeting-free days
- Your health and wellbeing is your most important asset, and as one of our valued team members, it’s our first priority. You will have a range of free services to help you live well and support your physical, mental and financial wellbeing
- Endeavour Group is full of opportunities - use our dedicated learning and development options to grow an idea, yourself, and your career. This is just the start, so dream big.
- At Endeavour, we value being a workplace where everyone’s welcome - if you meet a number of the requirements (and not all), we encourage you to apply._

Additional Information

**We are together creators**

With a portfolio that includes Dan Murphy’s, BWS, ALH Hotels, Pinnacle Drinks and more, Endeavour Group is big on sociability. Together we create the moments that bring millions of people together. And together we have more fun, create more opportunities, and score a lot more goals. We’re serious about creating a safe, inclusive and fun place to rock up to where equal opportunity is key, and flexibility is part of how we roll.

We’re all about creating a more sociable future - for our customers and each other. If this job excites you - and you’re close-enough on the requirements, reach out, we’d love to hear from you.

Our Talent Team and Hiring Leaders kindly request no unsolicited resumes or approaches from Recruitment Agencies. Endeavour Group is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
- #WeAreTogetherCreators #ComeAsYouAre #DreamBig #FeelTheE