Senior Category Manager

• Competitive Salary.
• Hybrid Working.

About Our Client

A large, customer-focused organisation responsible for delivering essential public services across a broad operational network, requiring secure, reliable, and scalable technology solutions.

Job Description

• Be the procurement expert for the assigned category, ensuring full delivery of the Category Plan and all related contracts.
• Lead procurement strategies with full stakeholder engagement, developing frameworks where needed and ensuring alignment with policies and processes.
• Develop fit‑for‑purpose contractual agreements, manage supplier performance, and uphold compliance with UK laws and industry standards.
• Maintain strong procurement governance, approve POs where applicable, and support sustainability commitments including ISO20400 improvements.
• Lead stakeholder engagement, work with DFTO on key approvals, and contribute to group sourcing strategies to secure best value for the organisation.

The Successful Applicant

• Degree‑level education or equivalent experience, with MCIPS achieved or a willingness to work towards it
• Experienced in Category Management
• Advanced analytical ability, confidence with spend data, and strong ICT skills including e‑procurement and Microsoft tools.
• Strong negotiation and commercial skills, able to run full procurement cycles independently and maintain high‑quality documentation.
• Excellent communicator who works well with diverse stakeholders, adapts to change, thinks creatively, and operates flexibly.

What's on Offer

• Salary between £60,000 - £65,000 dependent on experience.
• A defined benefit pension from day 1 - one of the best in the UK.
• 75% off travel for you, your partner and dependents
• 8 Friends and Family Day passes to gift per annum on our network.
• A 24/7 Virtual GP service for you and your household.
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)- A confidential employee benefit that supports you with personal or work-related issues affecting your home life, work life, health, or wellbeing
• Our cycle to work scheme with Evans Cycles.
• A retail discount portal- offering savings, discounts and cashback at over 800 retailers and restaurants.

Contact

Siobhan Pearson

Quote job ref

JN-072026-7070309

Phone number

+441132437709

Job summary

• Job function
• Procurement & Supply Chain

• Subsector
• Indirect Procurement

• Sector
• Public Sector

• Where
• Birmingham

• Contract type
• Permanent

• Consultant name
• Siobhan Pearson

• Consultant phone
• +441132437709

• Job reference
• JN-072026-7070309