Senior Category Manager - Professional Services - JN-032026-6979295

Senior Category Manager - Professional Services - Corporate Services
Northwest - Cheshire

About Our Client

This opportunity is with a well-established organisation which is transforming and growing. We're looking for a Senior Category Manager to join our growing Indirect Procurement team. This is a fantastic opportunity to shape category strategy, influence senior stakeholders, and drive meaningful commercial outcomes across Corporate Services, Professional Services, Marketing, Travel, Fleet, and wider indirect spend.You'll play a key role in developing and managing category plans, improving supplier performance, and delivering cost savings that support efficient business operations. Working closely with functions across the organisation, you'll help build a best‑in‑class procurement capability within a newly developed global procurement structure.

Job Description

As a Senior Category Manager - Head of Category - Corporate Service - Professional Services

Develop and deliver category strategies across Corporate & Professional Services and wider indirect spend. You will manage end-end procurements across a large spend and help set up the key processes to enable success
Partner with stakeholders across the business to understand requirements and improve sourcing activity.
Lead cost‑saving, cost‑avoidance, and value‑creation initiatives.
Manage supplier negotiations, tendering, and contract renewals.
Build strong supplier relationships and drive performance through effective SRM.
Monitor the market to ensure competitiveness and identify innovation opportunities.
Ensure full compliance with internal policies and relevant regulations.
Support the Head of Indirect Procurement in shaping and delivering the long‑term procurement agenda.

The Successful Applicant

A successful Senior Category Manager - Professional Services should have:

Strong procurement experience within a complex, global or multi‑site organisation.
Proven expertise across indirect categories, ideally Corporate Services or Professional Services.
Experience leading category strategies and delivering commercial results.
Ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders up to C‑suite level.
Strong commercial and contractual understanding.
Data‑driven mindset with the ability to analyse, challenge, and recommend.
Confident negotiator with excellent communication skills.
Proactive, curious, and comfortable driving change.

Desirable

Experience in greenfield or newly developing procurement environments.
People management experience.
Manufacturing or regulated industry background (e.g., pharma, corporate environment, consultancy etc ).
CIPS or equivalent professional certification.