Senior Category Manager - Infrastructure, you will take ownership of developing and delivering commercial strategies across our maintenance and infrastructure category.Reporting to the Head of Category - Estate Infrastructure, you will work closely with senior stakeholders to understand their priorities and commercial challenges, translating these into effective commercial solutions.You will act as the framework manager for the maintenance and infrastructure contracts, working to ensure suppliers deliver performance and value for our Hard FM category. You will provide contract advice, while managing risk and supplier innovation You will lead complex procurement activity from initial strategy and market engagement through to competition, negotiation and contract award. This will include determining appropriate routes to market, developing contracting and negotiation strategies and leading the delivery of frameworks, competitions and other commercial solutions.You will take a strategic
view of the category, using commercial insight and data to identify opportunities to improve value, drive efficiencies and deliver cost savings.You will also act as a trusted commercial adviser to senior stakeholders, providing guidance on procurement, contractual, commercial and compliance matters and ensuring commercial considerations are embedded into infrastructure planning.This is an opportunity to influence how a major organisation approaches infrastructure procurement and to help develop commercial solutions that balance value, quality, risk, sustainability and long-term operational requirements.A full job description is attached to this advert.
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UCL is London's leading multidisciplinary university and one of the world's most successful research institutions, with more than 18,000 staff and over 51,000 students from more than 150 countries.Our Commercial & Procurement function manages more than 900 million of third-party expenditure each year and plays an important role in ensuring UCL achieves excellent commercial outcomes while supporting our wider strategic and sustainability ambitions.Within Estates Development, we support the continued investment, development and improvement of UCL's diverse and complex estate. Effective infrastructure is fundamental to the operation of the university, supporting the environments in which our students learn, our researchers undertake world-leading work.We are strengthening our commercial capability and are looking for an experienced Senior Category Manager - Infrastructure to help shape how UCL procures and manages strategically important infrastructure requirements.
As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:
As London's Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world's talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL's workforce. These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.
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UCL is London's leading multidisciplinary university and one of the world's most successful research institutions, with more than 18,000 staff and…
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