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
- Develop and maintain category strategies that optimise cost,
quality, risk, resilience and supplier performance.
- Align category strategies to business priorities and future organisational requirements.
- Challenge business demand, specifications and legacy approaches to ensure expenditure delivers maximum value.
- Build and maintain category plans, opportunity pipelines and sourcing strategies across assigned spend areas.
- Lead category governance and performance review activities with key stakeholders.
Commercial Delivery & Value Creation
- Deliver measurable commercial value through cost reduction, cost avoidance, supplier optimisation, demand management and risk mitigation initiatives.
- Lead complex sourcing, negotiation and contracting activities across strategic categories.
- Develop and execute multi-year category plans aligned to business objectives.
- Support robust value tracking and reporting in partnership with Finance and business stak
📌 Senior Category Manager (Pune)
🏢 Davies
📍 Pune
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