Group Category Manager (Indirects)
Quintessential Brands, the award-winning name behind premium spirits like Opihr and Bloom gin and Dubliner Whiskey, are looking for a Group Category Manager – Indirects, reporting to the Group Procurement Director to drive end to end sourcing plans & strategy for categories covering Warehousing & Distribution/ Logistics, MRO, Engineering & Equipment, Soft & Hard FM, Utilities, HR, Marketing, IT & Telecoms and Professional Services.
Sitting within our Group Procurement team you’ll play a pivotal role in supporting stakeholders, understanding their needs and creating strategies that deliver YOY benefits and contractual compliance & performance rigour. Conducting end to end sourcing events you will lead, and support stakeholders in driving faultless execution and become a true Procurement partner across the QB Group.
The role and what you can expect…
With a variety of categories and sub-categories under your remit, the spend in multi £m’s, across the groups 4 sites, located in UK, ROI & France and our supply base considerable, you’ll relish the challenge this brings. The opportunity to make a positive impact is huge, but so is the complexity you will face into, we have an Indirect supply base > 1000 suppliers. Our business is dynamic and forever changing so we need a strong, adept and significantly experienced individual who thrives on pace, can bring best practice tools & methodology and expertise to take us to the next level.
We operate in fast, branded and retailer own label world where product life cycles can be short, seasonality plays its part, where NPD is in our DNA and where the demands from our customers are relentless and our ambitions, limitless. This is by no means a business as usual role, and requires a seasoned professional, a strong individual with a combination of strategic & operational skills and who can juggle multiple priorities and remain focussed when balancing conflicting demands.
You’ll be heavily involved in supplier development, challenging the status quo and embed new ways of working.
Key skills and experience
- Extensive Indirect Category Management experience, ideally within an FMCG business or Automotive/ Aerospace industry other fast paced, complex multi-site business min 3yrs at Category Manager level
- Delivered YOY tangible benefits across multiple categories and robust outcomes for stakeholders.
- You will bring best practice and methodology to our business, creating standard ways of working across the group.
- Deliver lowest total cost of ownership to the Business through tendering, rigorous negotiation, cost reduction and process improvement activities
- Demonstrate on-going evaluation of alternative strategies and supply sources
- Identify relevant courses of action to manage the risks within each category
- Continuous improvement is in your DNA
- Ideally you will have operated across multiple sites and understand the challenges that this poses to embed ways working
- Demonstrable analytical skills, able to create category information & insights and influence stakeholders
- Excellent communication, negotiation and networking skills with the ability to connect with all stakeholders & suppliers at all levels
- Strong commercial & contract management focus with experience of working in a fast paced, entrepreneurial environment with contractual rigour & SLA’s / KPI’s to deliver performance
- Is Process & Procedure orientated with solid analytical / problem solving skills
- Strong attention to detail, anticipates issues actions & resolves independently
- Is able and demonstrates the ability to manage multiple projects & workloads, is task focussed and completes work to tight deadlines
- Team
- Procurement
- Locations
- G&J Distillers
- Remote status
- Hybrid Remote
Our Culture - The Essence of Quintessential Brands
We're an 'all hands on deck' kind of place where you'll have the opportunity to get involved in end to end projects, implement systems and process. We're fast, agile and entrepreneurial but, most importantly, our people are at the heart of what we do.
While we do work hard, we do it with a sense of fun, pride and passion that you won't find anywhere else.
Are you never shaken and very rarely stirred? More Cosmopolitan than Old Fashioned? Approach everything you do with a dash of creativity and a squeeze of positivity? Then we need you!
About Quintessential Brands Group
Established in 2011, Quintessential Brands Group is one of the most successful spirits companies to emerge from the UK in the last decade. The company offers a complete range of services and products to its customers across the world; producing and distributing some of the world's most-loved spirits brands, including Greenall's, the Original London Dry Gin, Opihr Spiced Gin and BLOOM Gin, as well as developing and producing some of the most commercially successful retailer brands of recent years for trade customers, and co-packing for some of the world’s most well-known spirits brands.
Recognised by the industry as International Spirits Challenge Gin Distiller of the Year five times in the last six years, Quintessential Brands is renowned for its unrivalled gin distilling capabilities heritage dating back to 1761 and is emerging as one of the most dynamic new entrants in the Irish whiskey market with the Dublin Liberties Distillery. With world-class product development and manufacturing at four world-class production sites across Europe and an award-winning premium brand portfolio comprised of English Gins, Irish Whiskeys, Irish Creams and Liqueurs, Quintessential Brands is committed to being the indispensable spirits partner of choice to its customers across the world, with customers and insights at the heart of everything we do.
Group Category Manager (Indirects)
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