Category Lead
About Us
We are part of International Airlines Group (IAG), one of the world’s leading airline groups and owner of some of the biggest brands in the sky.
IAG Transform provides creative and innovative solutions to drive sustainable transformation by delivering procurement and airline services, as well as group-wide systems across IAG. Each operating company benefits from the Transform centralised model, driving efficiencies, automation, and economies of scale.
Purpose of the role
· Working across the operating companies, ensuring the delivery of effective, robust and compliant procurement that delivers the business plan while maximising the Group’s buying power.
· Lead strategic activities, including category planning, sourcing, risk management and act as a single point of contact for senior stakeholders
Your responsibilities
Responsibility for developing and implementing a 3-5 year category plan for the given sub-category.
· Responsibility for developing and implementing local and global sourcing strategies for all external spend related activity.
· Management of stakeholder relationships in all operating companies, ensuring appropriately robust challenge while delivering the operating companies’ business plans.
· Manage supplier risk to protect the operating companies and the Group from financial, operational and reputational damage.
· Provide commercial innovation to internal stakeholders through interaction with the supply base.
· Work with internal stakeholders and external suppliers to resolve commercial and contractual disputes; in particular suppliers with high complexity and/or high spend.
· Support operating companies tier 1 (high strategic/high risk/high spend) projects. Work with strategic suppliers to grow and develop supplier markets.
· Through liaison with the Procurement Operations Centre and operating company stakeholders, ensure supplier performance management is robust, effective and compliant.
· Work alongside business areas to identify, challenge, harmonise and simplify specifications and processes across the operating companies to ensure that Group buying power is maximised.
· Ensure that all procurement activity is carried out in line with Group and operating company governance principles.
· Develop effective working relations with key interfaces across the Group and operating companies including line, finance, legal and other stakeholders.
· Take active role in cross-departmental strategic and leadership activities.
Your skills, experience and qualifications
What we offer
The chance to enjoy a challenging career in an exciting, fast-moving environment in a dynamic industry.
The opportunity to work in a multi-cultural environment with great offices in many locations. We support our people in maintaining work/life balance, as well as providing the many benefits one would expect from a global organisation, including health insurance, pension and performance bonuses.
We are an equal opportunities employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law
