Senior Category Manager - Corporate Services

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 model

Key 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