Role: Senior Category Manager-Corporate Services
Location: Farnborough(3 days/week)
Duration: 6 months
Rate: competitive
Inside IR35: Umbrella
Corporate Services
The Corporate Services Category has a spend of £100m across key categories including HR, Recruitment and Training, Professional Services, Legal, Marketing and Communications, Freight, Fleet and Travel. This role directly supports People which is a key Global Group Function.
Key Responsibilities
Build and maintain strategic relationships with senior stakeholders, driving early engagement to influence business planning and ensure alignment with organisational priorities
Own, develop and execute category strategies for HR, Recruitment and Training, using market insights and data to challenge existing approaches and maximize value
Lead complex sourcing activity, including the design of sourcing strategies, competitive tenders, and negotiation of high-value contracts
Identify and manage category-specific risks, including supply resilience, geopolitical, financial and sustainability considerations
Support stakeholders to drive Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) across key contracts to ensure performance, innovation and value realisation from strategic partnerships
Support the Finance and Business Systems transformation, including transition from SAP Ariba to Oracle Fusion and establishment of a mature Source-to-Pay modelKey Person Attributes
Communicates complex commercial and strategic concepts clearly and confidently adapting style to suit senior stakeholders
Aligns diverse stakeholders behind shared objectives
Confident decision-maker, balancing commercial, operational and risk considerations to drive the best outcomes in ambiguous or dynamic environments and collaborates x-functionally to achieve this
Builds collaborative and trusted relationships with stakeholders and suppliers
Demonstrates resilience and adaptability during transformation
Role-models integrity, accountability and a growth mindset
Proactively improves processes, challenges existing ways of working and contributes to Supply Chain and Procurement functional development