Category Buyer - Hardware & Software Engineering Services

Responsibilities

Strategy

• Provide input into worldwide category strategies for short, medium and long term needs.
• Ensure the relevant players have a good knowledge of Thales need and support the category strategy so that the business secures targeted projects and customer competitive advantage.
• Ensure that clear and measurable savings targets are identified and delivered by category and endorsed by business / project.
• Ensure category commitment and spend compliance tracking is well reported.

Procurement Competitiveness Capture

• Monitor category markets on an on-going basis to identify and understand key players, newcomers, economic evolutions, market or regulation constraints, innovations and technology to support the development of the most up to date category strategies for the businesses.
• Based on the above provide insights as to how products / projects could be more competitive vi...