Head of Category Group Directs

3 hours ago

Waltham, Massachusetts, United States National Grid Full time
About Us

National Grid is a leading energy company that connects homes and businesses to power, ensuring a balance between supply and demand.

We operate in the UK and US, serving millions of people and businesses, and are committed to securing a clean, fair, and affordable energy future.

The Opportunity

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Head of Category Group Directs to join our team on a Full-Time, Permanent basis.

This role will be responsible for leading a suite of dedicated multi-million categories, including end-to-end ownership of strategy, market insights, and risk management.

The successful candidate will have 4 Direct Reports and 12 indirect reports, and will be accountable for developing and implementing procurement strategies and execution of procurement priorities for the business unit.

Key Responsibilities
  • Align Procurement activities with operating priorities and coordinate across Procurement teams to ensure business unit updates, insight, and recommendations.
  • Engage and drive strategic relationships with category critical suppliers, implement vendor and contract management strategies, and ensure the supply chain is engaged and enabled to meet business needs.
  • Develop and lead a comprehensive suite of category strategies for the Business Unit, providing market capability and capacity intelligence, ensuring maximum value is realised from significant procurement spend, while securing supply, managing supply chain risks, and achieving sustainability objectives.
  • Accountable for the development and implementation of procurement strategies and execution of procurement priorities for the business unit, providing strategic and commercial insight, supply chain sustainability insight, and supply chain risk mitigation recommendations.
  • Aligned to category ownership, develop and maintain strong relationships with key suppliers to ensure continuous improvement, security of supply, and value delivery.
  • Ensure rigorous management of contracts throughout their lifecycle, including implementing corrective actions when necessary.
  • Work across teams and sub-functions within Procurement to support overall category management effort.
  • Lead a highly motivated, innovative, and value-focused team, developing talent and a performance management culture that drives value through employee engagement, successfully meeting or exceeding all strategic objectives for the area.
Requirements
  • Previous procurement experience, delivering category excellence, leveraging across multiple category areas.
  • Ability to communicate dynamically at all levels within National Grid and externally to senior leaders within supplier organizations (including C-level executives).
  • Experience in building high-performing teams, track record of driving strategic change through category intelligence.
  • Good understanding of broader business objectives and the implications of strategic planning and actions within the category on the regional/global businesses.
  • Expert influencing and negotiation skills to drive optimum value through the award of commercially sound contracts.
  • Relationship management experience, driving commercial value and performance through major contracts.
  • Degree level or relevant professional qualification such as CIPS or equivalent experience.
What We Offer

National Grid is an equal opportunity employer that values a broad diversity of talent, knowledge, experience, and expertise.

We foster a culture of inclusion that drives employee engagement to deliver superior performance to the communities we serve.

National Grid is proud to be an affirmative action employer, encouraging minorities, women, individuals with disabilities, and protected veterans to join the National Grid team.

We offer a competitive salary range of $168,000-$198,000 per year, and a hybrid/flexible working arrangement, with some international business travel required.

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