Senior Category Manager - Professional Services
This exciting opportunity as a Senior Category Manager - Professional Services requires expertise in procurement in managing a HR / Corporate Services Category
Client Details
This opportunity is with a well-established organisation which is transforming and growing. We're looking for a Senior Category Manager to join our growing Indirect Procurement team. This is a fantastic opportunity to shape category strategy, influence senior stakeholders, and drive meaningful commercial outcomes across Corporate Services, Professional Services, Marketing, Travel, Fleet, and wider indirect spend.
You'll play a key role in developing and managing category plans, improving supplier performance, and delivering cost savings that support efficient business operations. Working closely with functions across the organisation, you'll help build a best-in-class procurement capability within a newly developed global procurement structure.
Description
As a Senior Category Manager - Head of Category - Corporate Service - Professional Services
- Develop and deliver category strategies across Corporate & Professional Services and wider indirect spend. You will manage end-end procurement across a large spend and help set up the key processes to enable success
- Partner with stakeholders across the business to understand requirements and improve sourcing activity.
- Lead cost-saving, cost-avoidance, and value-creation initiatives.
- Manage supplier negotiations, tendering, and contract renewals.
- Build strong supplier relationships and drive performance through effective SRM.
- Monitor the market to ensure competitiveness and identify innovation opportunities.
- Ensure full compliance with internal policies and relevant regulations.
- Support the Head of Indirect Procurement in shaping and delivering the long-term procurement agenda.
A successful Senior Category Manager - Professional Services should have:
- Strong procurement experience within a complex, global or multi-site organisation.
- Proven expertise across indirect categories, ideally Corporate Services or Professional Services.
- Experience leading category strategies and delivering commercial results.
- Ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders up to C-suite level.
- Strong commercial and contractual understanding.
- Data-driven mindset with the ability to analyse, challenge, and recommend.
- Confident negotiator with excellent communication skills.
- Proactive, curious, and comfortable driving change.
- People management experience.
- Manufacturing or regulated industry background (e.g., pharma, corporate environment, consultancy etc ).
- CIPS or equivalent professional certification.
- Competitive salary ranging from £70,000 - £80,000 + Car Allowance + Bonus
- Permanent role based in Manchester
- Opportunity to shape and influence a newly built procurement function.
- Exposure to strategic global projects.
- A role with real ownership, autonomy, and progression potential.
- Inclusive culture and supportive leadership team.
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