Fleet Category Manager

December 2

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Biffa

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Single Stream Recycling • Environmental Services • Secure Waste & Recycling • Confidential Waste • Contaminated Land & Soil

5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1912

⚡ Energy

Description

• A Fleet Category Manager is required to meet the growing remit across Fleet Procurement. • It's important you fit the team dynamic and is able to deal with the complexities and ambiguities the role will present. • We are looking for someone with previous procurement and operations experience of automotive, fleet or alternative fuels. • Maintain and develop knowledge of specific categories including Biffa's Fleets products, services, and strategy; suppliers. • Understand the key market levers and know how/when to use them. • Understand and execute Biffa procurement processes becoming skilled in respective process steps able to train other Procurement Team members. • Deliver value to the business through strategic sourcing activity, utilising knowledge of innovation/business trends within market. • Provide a coaching role in category strategy development, passing on valuable knowledge within the Fleet Procurement team. • Design Procurement documentation and leading the overall strategy for categories and implementing specific approaches for individual suppliers and contracts. • Negotiate high value, high risk contracts with suppliers that protect the business providing relevant risk management and financial/non-financial benefits to the group. • Define the risk to the business, apply language to protect the business, and have exclusive alternatives to better the contract over time. • Identify and establish strong working relationships with key internal stakeholders to agree effective procurement support and resources aligned to business unit strategy and plans.

Requirements

• Experience in fleet, automotive or alternative fuel related categories • Financial acumen with the ability to interpret P&L statements and business accounts to work with Finance and Operational stakeholders to realise expected benefits • Ability to challenge business process and purchasing rationale to fully identify business need and delivery effective business options • Knowledgeable of themes of environment, labour/ human rights, ethics and sustainable procurement, and the criteria within each which contribute to positive social value • Structured approach to full project management including overall plan with activities and milestones, actions, risk, stakeholders identified, and governance defined