Category Director

3 weeks ago

Dublin, Dublin City, Ireland BT Group Full time
Category Director - Group Procurement

Posting Date: 28 Feb 2025

Function: Corporate Functions

Unit: Finance & Business Services

Location: Bray Road, Co Dublin, Ireland

Internal Closing Date: 24th March 2025

Why BT?

We've always been an organisation with purpose; to use the power of communications to make a better world. Our pursuit of progress over the past 180 years has established BT as a strong, successful brand, capable of achieving great things. If you have the drive, optimism, and resilience to help propel us forward, we'd love you to be part of our future.

Why Procurement?

Procurement plays a critical role in BT where we are charged with building, funding, and protecting BT's value by leveraging the capabilities of our third-party partners and suppliers.

  • Establish the right innovative supplier relationships and agreements necessary to create value for BT Group.
  • Deliver cost efficiencies through efficient sourcing agreements.
  • Ensure we have the commercial models, terms, and conditions required to enable economic growth while protecting BT Group from both financial and reputational damage.

Why this job matters

The Category Director is responsible for leading a global super category and the category management process. They are accountable for billions GBP of spend, defining & delivering against this category strategy, and will be the business partner to key stakeholders alongside other category directors as required.

What you'll be doing - your accountabilities

Strategic

  • Develop and deliver the L1 super category strategy, leading on strategic sourcing and business partnering initiatives that underpin BT's customer-facing units and corporate unit's strategies and plans.
  • Recognised as a leader in BT and by our suppliers and industry peers, who can influence BT Group's strategic sourcing agenda.
  • Set direction for innovative improvement initiatives to realise more benefits in category / harness synergies across categories.

Operational

  • Business partner to key Customer Facing Units / Corporate Units to drive the category strategy and manage demand.
  • Hold excellent senior relationships with internal and external stakeholders to establish category priorities, secure buy-in for category strategy, and support for category implementation, ensuring compliance to BT policies and external regulations.
  • Lead and guide the delivery of all strategic sourcing and improvement initiatives at global / regional / industry levels.
  • Set the strategic direction, individual and team targets with a 2-5 year view on the optimal procurement strategy.
  • Set clear vision for regional and industry category teams and ensure adherence across regions and customer-facing units.
  • Oversight to ensure procurement processes and activities are compliant and adhered across teams.
  • Drive category spend and performance, develop and deliver category strategy and long-term values, ensuring activities across teams are in line with governance, assurance, and SOX controls.
  • Set appropriate targets for sub-categories and sub-category leads, ensuring category strategy implementation.
  • Provide insights to teams about the best approach to market, the optimum commercial models and supplier relationships.
  • May act as the Supplier Relationship Management lead with key strategic suppliers.
  • Provide insight to develop and implement policies and frameworks underpinning products and service delivery.

People

  • Recruit, hire, train, and coach a professional, engaged, and motivated diverse team.
  • Lead, develop, and coach a team of procurement professionals to deliver brilliant outcomes and be trailblazers for the team.

Skills and experience required for the job

  • Substantial years experience as an established leader within the Procurement function, with excellent leadership skills and the ability to lead, build, and deliver through high performance teams.
  • Excellent in providing guidance and decisions to the team in order to achieve optimal solutions and outcomes.
  • Strong business mindset and category expertise, across end-to-end Source to Pay areas, as well as external market conditions.
  • Demonstrates a track record of decision-making capability and delivery against key metrics.
  • Strong relationship management skills & ability to influence decision making with senior stakeholders within a matrixed environment.
  • Experience in business partnering and supplier relationship management.
  • Ability to manage complex, strategic, and commercial requirements between BT and Suppliers, delivering projects and results on time and in full.

Specific Category Area: Networks

  • Experience with a variety of network infrastructure technologies and companies (e.g., Nokia, Ericsson, Cisco).
  • Experience with a breadth of technologies including Fixed and Mobile Networks, Core Networks & Platforms, Switching & Routing, Data Centers, etc.
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