Category Manager for Catering

Category lead for :Hygiene and Cleaning ConsumablesPPEWork WearPharmaceutical This covers all business units on a group level.

Successfully supported implementation of SRM upgrade and additional Ariba modules Led a skilled set of people to provide support on the end to end P2P processSuccessfully implemented increased transaction limits on corporate cards with increased compliance reporting and actionsLeading team to support catalogue enablement within Ariba and event management Streamlining processes and implementing improvements to ensure tasks are carried out in a lean fashion

Supporting the Procure to Pay Infrastructure Team in their role of managing the Serco Procurement Processes and Operations.Liaising with all areas in the business regarding purchasing queries, processes and assisting them with their purchasing needs.Working closely with the Categories team working on the preferred supplies list.Maintaining vendors and materials on SAPDealing with all the day to day queries of the One Card (Serco's purchasing card) with members of our team and… Show more Supporting the Procure to Pay Infrastructure Team in their role of managing the Serco Procurement Processes and Operations.Liaising with all areas in the business regarding purchasing queries, processes and assisting them with their purchasing needs.Working closely with the Categories team working on the preferred supplies list.Maintaining vendors and materials on SAPDealing with all the day to day queries of the One Card (Serco's purchasing card) with members of our team and running reports for the business.Generating reports for finance team and also occasionally management reports.Covering for our Project Analyst when on leave; generating all the management benefit reports and generating the spend reports for the category mangers. Show less

This was working within the EA team for the data migration of India and Hong Kong into SAPWorking on the P2P and AR process and transferring them to NimbusData analysing

Managing British gas fleet services and calloutsPutting together quotations for vehicles and cranes and sending these out to customersOrganizing logistics for delivery of supplies for the all international shipments and orders.Marketing and cold calling for sales of Fassi cranesMeeting strict deadlinesLiaising with our customers on a daily basis.Achieving a high level of customer serviceLiaising with all our engineers and British gas engineers to achieve work to be… Show more Managing British gas fleet services and calloutsPutting together quotations for vehicles and cranes and sending these out to customersOrganizing logistics for delivery of supplies for the all international shipments and orders.Marketing and cold calling for sales of Fassi cranesMeeting strict deadlinesLiaising with our customers on a daily basis.Achieving a high level of customer serviceLiaising with all our engineers and British gas engineers to achieve work to be carried out in a timely and efficient mannerResponsible for all invoices for British gas, working with Sage and on 1link to post costingScheduling services for the British gas vans all over the UK Show less

Producing quotations for United Nations tenders. This entails product research, obtaining the most competitive quote, producing technical specifications for bids and the costing including freight costs.Organizing logistics for delivery of goods for the all international shipments and orders.Sending out bids on the pharmaceutical side of the businessResearching pharmaceutical products to make sure that they are the products that our clients require.Negotiating costs of products… Show more Producing quotations for United Nations tenders. This entails product research, obtaining the most competitive quote, producing technical specifications for bids and the costing including freight costs.Organizing logistics for delivery of goods for the all international shipments and orders.Sending out bids on the pharmaceutical side of the businessResearching pharmaceutical products to make sure that they are the products that our clients require.Negotiating costs of products with suppliers to find the most competitive quoteMeeting strict deadlinesResponsible for calculating all the freight dimensions to get quotes.Liaising with our clients and suppliers on a daily basis.Achieving a high level of customer serviceLiaising with the suppliers following placement of order to ensure timely deliveryLiaising with the client to advise PO status/delivery management. Also in order to finalise freight dimensions for customs.Liaising with freight forwarder to ensure that goods get out on a timely manner. Show less