Department: Procurement

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Pune

Description

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 environment, 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, chance 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 Fi

📌 Senior Category Manager (Pune)
🏢 Davies Shared Services
📍 Pune