To lead, develop and execute category strategies across high-value direct and indirect spend categories with a total spend exceeding £200 million annually.

The Senior Category Manager will be responsible for delivering measurable commercial outcomes, influencing business decision-making through data-driven insight, challenging demand and spend behaviours, and supporting the continued development of procurement capability, governance and supplier management across the organisation.

This role requires a commercially driven and entrepreneurial individual who can operate effectively in a fast-paced and evolving workplace, balancing immediate value delivery with longer-term capability development. The successful candidate will have the ability to identify and create opportunities, build stakeholder relationships where none currently exist, and establish Procurement as a trusted business partner

Key Responsibilities

Category Strategy & Leadership

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Develop and maintain category strategies that optimise cost, quality, risk, resilience and supplier performance.

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Align category strategies to business priorities and future organisational requirements.

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Challenge business demand, specifications and legacy approaches to ensure expenditure delivers maximum value.

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Build and maintain category plans, opportunity pipelines and sourcing strategies across assigned spend areas.

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Lead category governance and performance review activities with key stakeholders.

Commercial Delivery & Value Creation

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Deliver measurable commercial value through cost reduction, cost avoidance, supplier optimisation, demand management and risk mitigation initiatives.

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Lead complex sourcing, negotiation and contracting activities across strategic categories.

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Develop and execute multi-year category plans aligned to business objectives.

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Support robust value tracking and reporting in partnership with Finance and business stakeholders.

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Drive sustainable commercial outcomes rather than

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