Head of Category and Procurement Business Partner

4 weeks 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 reliable supply and demand match. Our mission is to secure, clean energy that supports our world far into the future. We strive for the highest standards in everything we do, including how we support, value, and develop our people.

The Opportunity

We are seeking a Head of Category and Procurement Business Partner 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.

Key Responsibilities
  • Work with Executives to align Procurement activities with operating priorities.
  • 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 comprehensive category strategies for the Business Unit, providing market capability and capacity intelligence, ensuring maximum value is realized 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/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. We encourage minorities, women, individuals with disabilities, and protected veterans to join the National Grid team.

We offer a collaborative, team-oriented culture, rewarding work, and a competitive compensation package. Our benefits include a comprehensive health insurance plan, a 401(k) retirement plan, and a generous paid time off policy.

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