Lead - Professional & Employee Services Category Manager

In short

We are seeking a dynamic and strategic Lead - Procurement Category Manager for our Professional and Employee Services category. This newly created role is pivotal to shaping and driving the category’s strategy, optimizing spend, and building sustainable supplier relationships. You will be responsible for developing the category management framework, identifying key opportunities, and ensuring the alignment of procurement activities with the organization’s overall objectives. The ideal candidate will demonstrate innovative thinking, strong negotiation skills, and a deep understanding of professional and employee services markets.

Your Mission

• Take ownership of shaping the category by analyzing current practices, identifying gaps, and introducing innovative solutions to optimize costs, improve supplier performance, and align with organizational goals.
• Design and implement a comprehensive procurement strategy for the
• Professional and Employee Services category, including, but not limited to HR services, consultancy, training, temporary staffing, and other outsourced professional services.
• Ensure robust management of key supplier relationships within agreed categories of supply, whilst mitigating risk and delivering operational benefit at all times.
• Ensure supply chain solutions are fit for purpose, aligned to business needs, and represent lowest total cost, optimal service and highest quality with relevant impactful supply base innovation
• Lead high-value contract negotiations, ensuring favorable terms for the organization, managing contract lifecycle, and mitigating risks.
• Perform detailed spend analysis and identify opportunities for cost savings and value creation within the category. Leverage data to drive decision-making and measure performance against KPIs.
• Provide key senior stakeholder support in the procurement sourcing lifecycle - including driving requirement specification, RFI, RFP, evaluation, drafting, contracting, on-boarding, negotiations, supplier management.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement by exploring new processes, technologies, and methods for category management to increase efficiency and impact.