Category Manager-Digital Printing

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Category Manager-Digital Printing

  • Post Date:16th August 2024
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About the job

Category Manager – Digital Printing

Location: Hybrid – Remote & On-Site at Cambridge or Liverpool + Supplier Visits

About the role

Dive into the dynamic world of procurement with Domino Group, a leader in digital print solutions. As we embrace our new matrix organization and strive towards excellence, we’re looking for a strategic and operational procurement professional to enrich our experienced team. This role offers a unique blend of strategic foresight and operational agility within the global scope of Domino’s Group Purchasing Team, focusing on the Digital Print category.

Your Mission: Transform our procurement processes and supplier relations to achieve unparalleled value in delivery, cost, quality, and service. You will be pivotal in developing Category Strategies, optimizing the supply base, and navigating through the intricacies of contractual relationships and risk management. Your efforts will directly contribute to Domino’s evolution, aligning our purchasing practices with the business’s strategic vision and ever-changing landscape.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with internal stakeholders and external suppliers to craft and refine Category Strategies for Digital Print.
  • Foster robust relationships with suppliers and internal customers, ensuring alignment with Domino’s values and goals.
  • Identify and onboard new, capable suppliers, auditing their potential to enhance our supply base.
  • Drive profitability through strategic cost management, inventory optimization, and risk mitigation.
  • Negotiate and manage comprehensive supplier contracts, ensuring they meet our stringent CSR standards.
  • Spearhead initiatives to streamline purchasing processes and leverage technology to enhance efficiency and data integrity.

About You:

You’re an experienced category buyer/manager with a zest for strategic sourcing in a technologically advanced, fast-paced environment. Your commercial acumen is matched by a deep technical understanding and a proactive approach to stakeholder management.

Here’s what makes you stand out:

  • Proven expertise in developing and executing procurement strategies for technical manufacturing components.
  • Solution oriented able to identify potential or existing issues early and provide creative results
  • A rich background in purchasing technical products and services, with keen category insight.
  • Strong project management skills, characterized by a well-organized and hands-on approach.
  • A customer-centric mindset, adept at leading complex cross-functional teams to drive organizational benefits.
  • Independent, self-motivated, and exceptionally organized, with a knack for initiating action and achieving results.
  • Proficient in finance and budgeting, with sharp analytical skills to decipher the full spectrum of purchasing value.
  • Experience adhering to Compliance, Procurement, and Legal best practices.
  • CIPS qualification (or working towards one) is highly desirable.
  • Familiarity with ERP systems, especially Oracle, is advantageous.

 

What you can expect

As a talented individual working at Domino, you can expect a competitive salary and a generous benefits package, including:

  • 25 days of basic holiday, plus options to buy or sell additional days, ensuring you have ample time to relax and recharge.
  • A discretionary bonus scheme, a testament to your hard work and dedication.
  • Life insurance, providing security and peace of mind for you and your loved ones.
  • Medical insurance with the option of purchasing a health cash plan, dental insurance, travel insurance and cycle to work scheme, ensuring your health is always a top priority.
  • Join our green car scheme, a step towards a more environmentally friendly commute.
  • Pension plan, starting with 8% employer contributions.

Flexibility

We recognise that flexible homeworking can be beneficial and at Domino we want people to feel able to own the way they work. What this looks like might vary between teams – what’s important is that we enable you to get the best from us and for us to get the best from you, whether that’s from your home office or on site, as long as we continue to collaborate and enable great outcomes for our customers.

We are a highly successful company, we’re large enough to offer career development opportunities yet small enough for your contribution to be readily recognised and rewarded.

About Us

At Domino Printing Sciences we do more. Our expertise isn’t just in providing cutting-edge variable data printing technology; it’s in revolutionising how manufacturers embrace sustainable packaging and spearhead advancements in coding automation. We’ve been a part of the global variable data printing story for a long time, and our solutions help ensure the success of the world’s leading brands. Our goal is to be the leading global variable data printing brand through applying our expertise and reliable solutions to help the world’s manufacturers be sustainable and cut waste, while attracting, informing, and protecting their consumers. But we also know that it’s not just about the work we do—it’s about fostering a collaborative, dynamic and welcoming environment where everyone can flourish, contributing to Domino not only as a pioneer in the industry but also as an exceptional place to work.

Positions may be at an advanced stage of the recruitment process and can close at any time.

 

To apply please click the link: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3989360256