Senior Category Manager - Professional Services

This exciting opportunity as a Senior Category Manager - Professional Services requires expertise in procurement in managing a HR / Corporate Services Category

Client Details

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.

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.

Profile

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.

• 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.

Job Offer

• Competitive salary ranging from £70,000 - £80,000 + Car Allowance + Bonus
• Permanent role based in Cheshire
• Opportunity to shape and influence a newly built procurement function.
• Exposure to strategic global projects.
• A role with real ownership, autonomy, and progression potential.
• Inclusive culture and supportive leadership team.

If you're ready to advance your career as a Senior Category Manager - Professional Services in Cheshire, apply today