Senior Category Manager – Corporate Services
Location: Farnborough (3 days/week)
Duration: 6 months
Rate: competitive
Inside IR35: Umbrella
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 maximise 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 cross‑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.
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