Senior Category Manager - IT & Indirects

You will be initially managing a complex Global spend focusing on IT/Technology, Professional Services, Marketing, Travel, HR. Primary objective is to manage spend strategically across the group globally to implement wider strategies across key suppliers to improve cost and supplier delivery.

This role needs an “outside the box thinker”, inquisitive, proactive and someone who strives to embed procurement strategies where possible, still upholding a strong commercial acumen.

£70,000 to £80,000 | 10% bonus | full corporate benefits package | London – 1 or 2 days in the office per week

Role and responsibilities:

• Create IT and corporate strategies through to the delivery and performance including year on year annualised savings
• Develop group wide category plans and strategies to ensure alignment for the group, leveraging suppliers to support local offices
• Engage, manage and influence senior stakeholders from Director to Board level to ensure buy-in, utilising strong market knowledge
• Build relationships with key stakeholders to ensure a rounded knowledge of a suppliers performance
• Monitor supplier risk and performance through reporting tools and business feedback
• Be a Procurement role model by living company values, consistently delivering to the high standards expected, promoting procurement through relationships
• On top over delivering strategic projects, ensure the business is getting the best service in line with cost efficiency

Experience and requirements:

• Deep technical category experience within Technology & IT is key
• As well as having some more generalist Indirect category management
• Private sector procurement experience, ideally working for a global business
• Previous experience working on complex global projects, dealing with Tier 1 suppliers of significant values
• Confident in engaging and influencing senior level stakeholders, and across various regions
• A highly strategic mindset when approaching procurement, suppliers and business needs
• Excellent communications skills when dealing with contacts in different cultures and countries
• Able to adapt in a very fast paced, continuously changing environment
• MCIPS qualified, nice to have but not essential

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