First Military Recruitment
Category Manager
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Category Manager – 6 Month FTC
Location: Bristol / London – Hybrid Min 1 day per week (Wednesday) in Bristol
Salary: Competitive Day Rate | Inside IR35
Overview
First Military Recruitment are currently seeking a Category Manager on behalf of one of our clients. The main objective of this role is to build front-end Category Strategy, influence senior stakeholders, and drive delivery. Our client encourages applications from ex-military personnel; however, all candidates will be given due consideration.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Develop and implement Category Strategies for assigned sub-group of categories, balancing short and long-term objectives to meet business strategy.
- Support and execute stakeholder management.
- This role is consultative in nature but you must be prepared to immerse yourself in the task should the need arise.
- Delivering benefits (full range of non-financial and financial benefits) through category management interventions within a complex project / programme delivery environment.
- Adopt a polite yet tenacious attitude to achieve goals and move projects towards completion.
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Skills and Qualifications
- Experienced Category Manager of 5+ years.
- Experience within one or more strategically important category areas: Lethality (Weapons), Marine (e.g. shipbuilding and fleet support), direct and operational, and general categories.
- Ability to apply category management principles within complex, high-value, and mission-critical environments.
- Understands fundamentals of building Category Strategy.
- Experience running large programmes / projects.
- Strong stakeholder management and engagement skills.
- Politely persistent to move things along.
- High levels of influencing skills.
- Track record of delivering benefits (full range of non-financial and financial benefits) through category management interventions.
- MS Office / PowerPoint competent.
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Desirable:
- CIPS is desirable but experience is more important.
- An understanding of the Defence Industry, supply chains, and/or deep knowledge in related categories, e.g. autonomous systems, weapons systems, sense decide & communicating systems, power propulsion & auxiliary systems, would be an advantage.
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