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Location

Darlington, County Durham | United Kingdom

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Job description

About The Role

Join HC-One Ltd as a Procurement Category Manager, where you'll play a pivotal role in shaping our procurement strategy and management. This is not just a role; it's an opportunity to contribute to our commitment to sustainability, cost reduction, and responsible procurement. If you're passionate about making every pound we spend have a wider purpose, read on.

As a Procurement Category Manager, you will take the lead in developing and implementing Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives within your remit. Your responsibilities extend to innovation, legislation, and technology, ensuring that our procurement practices align with our Net Zero targets.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead ESG initiatives within your areas of responsibility, incorporating innovation, legislation, and technology.
  
• Develop and maintain positive relationships with key suppliers, leveraging their resources to deliver high-quality products and services while achieving ESG targets.
  
• Oversee the supply chain management of key category contracts, incorporating effective and measurable Key Performance Indicators with a focus on ESG factors.
  
• Drive compliance with responsible procurement strategies, actively managing vendor performance to ensure every pound spent contributes to a wider purpose.
  
• Engage with suppliers to understand and support their transition to net zero in alignment with HC-One's Net Zero targets.
  
• Mitigate the risk of supplier compliance breaches by actively managing legal documentation such as contracts, insurance, and registrations.
  
• Review and enhance the approach to supply chain audits, contributing to the development of a roadmap for improvement.
  
• Provide continuous market intelligence, advising on best practices for sustainable procurement, trends, and regulations within your areas of responsibility.
  
• Collaborate with and lead cross-functional project teams to ensure procurement strategies align with corporate objectives.
  
• Develop long-term value generation and risk mitigation strategies.
  
• Mentor and coach Procurement Assistants to ensure targets, objectives, and service levels are met
  

About The Company

HC-One offers professional residential, nursing and specialist dementia care for older people. We aim to be the first choice care home in each community for Residents and Colleagues; we will achieve this mission through providing the kindest possible care to Residents in over 280 care homes across the United Kingdom.

We are very proud of our outstanding team at HC-One. They are caring, warm-hearted and professional people who have a clear understanding of our Residents individual needs, choices and wishes.

We are passionate about ensuring that our current and future Colleagues can be their true selves, and that our workforce represents the communities we serve. We prioritise inclusive working practices and invite applicants from all backgrounds into our HC-One family.

What HC-One offer

Complimenting your salary, you will enjoy access to a huge variety of benefits and services to support your physical and psychological well-being and throughout your career we will invest in you and you will enjoy additional support and benefits including:

• Award-winning learning and development
  
• 25 days annual leave
  
• An opportunity to learn from experienced colleagues as part of an outstanding and committed team.
• GP online - providing around the clock GP consultation via an interactive app - available to you and your children under 16
  
• Colleague discounts – Access to over 1600 high street discounts including carefully selected discount partners
  
• Wellbeing - free of charge access to an independent and confidential Employee Assistance Programme. This gives Colleagues and their family access to 24/7 365 support for a whole range of issues including physical, mental and financial issues

We want you to have an amazing experience working at HC-One, starting with our commitment to providing the quickest possible turnaround from the point of making you a job offer to you starting with us on day one.

About You

With 5 years of experience in Procurement and MCIPS qualified, or willing to work towards, ideally you are Degree qualified, Carbon Literacy Certified and have experience in a large multi-site environment, including understanding of GHG protocol, carbon accounting, and reporting tools (CDP, Ecovardis).

You have commercial acumen in line with business scale and spend and have excellent customer service, project management and planning skills, and ideally have experience with data analytics tools (e.g., Power BI).

Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility and therefore it is important that you are able to recognise the signs which may indicate possible abuse, harm or neglect in its different forms and know what to do if there are any concerns. All colleagues are required to attend safeguarding training appropriate to their role and to undertake additional training in associated areas. You also have the ability to seek appropriate advice and report concerns, including escalation if action is not taken.
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