Lead Procurement Category Manager
Location: Asda House; Employment Type: Full time; Contract Type: Permanent; Hours per week: 37.5; Salary: Competitive salary plus benefits; Category: Purchasing/Procurement; Closing date: 25 May 2026.
About the Role
Your role is to manage end-to-end sourcing activity and set category strategy, influence and partner stakeholders to deliver cost transformation, ensuring a best-in-class cost base.
Key Responsibilities
* Lead major business investments, executive priorities, and cost transformation programmes.
* Deliver the cost and cash programme, develop expertise across all categories, build long‑term roadmap, and leverage data and analytics.
* Drive procurement transformation, embedding new ways of working, leading the technology roadmap, defining processes and setting standards.
* Partner with Asda Technology and CIO to unlock commercial value.
* Manage end-to-end sourcing activities and develop category strategies.
* Influence and collaborate with stakeholders to support transformation initiatives and maintain a competitive cost base.
* Lead major business investments and executive priorities within the function.
* Contribute to the cost and cash programme leveraging data and analytics in the Centre of Excellence.
* Drive procurement transformation, setting new standards and defining the procurement technology roadmap.
Required Qualifications
* Proven experience in Procurement/Category Management.
* Experience in technology procurement (software/SaaS, professional services, managed services) desirable.
* Skilled in crafting and managing complex contracts.
* Capability to balance and anticipate needs of stakeholders.
* Experience influencing senior levels within a large organisation.
* Agile and adaptable in a dynamic transformation environment.
Benefits
* Discretionary company bonus.
* Company pension up to 7% matched.
* Company Car allowance of £5,700.
* 15% colleague discount in store and online.
* Free access to wellbeing services.
* Asda Allies Inclusion Networks.
* Excellent parental leave policies.
Work Environment
Hybrid working with a minimum of 3 days a week in one of our home offices; further office days may be required for supplier visits, stores, or depots.
Values
We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves.
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