Senior Category Manager - Professional Services

Location London
Job type: Permanent
Salary: ​Salary up to £62k + excellent pension, significant travel discounts and wider benefits.
Contact name: Nathan Ramsay

Contact email: nathan.ramsay@langleysearch.com
Job ref: 1292262NR
Published: about 2 months ago

Salary up to £62k, London based client offering hybrid working (2 days per week in office), excellent pension, significant travel discounts and wider benefits.

 The Opportunity:-

My market leading client, who are going through a significant transformation, are currently recruiting for a Senior Category Manager (Professional Services). The successful candidate will be responsible for delivering innovative category strategies, procurement pipeline development, tendering / sourcing and post-contract advisory. There will also be significant stakeholder engagement and this opportunity will have line management responsibility.

This is an excellent opportunity to work for a company who pride themselves on their collaborative, approachable and solution focussed culture.

 Key Candidate Criteria:-

  • Category management / procurement experience gained within a Public Sector environment (essential)

  • Experience of strategic procurement for services, ideally Professional Services / consultancy spend areas such as construction, works, engineering, R&D, finance

  • Pro-active / solution focussed approach, with the ability to work at pace with high volumes.

  • Great stakeholder relationship engagement skill / business partnering approach.

  • Line management / mentoring experience (desirable)

Langley are a diverse, minority-owned business and we are passionate about promoting diversity and equality. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, disability status or gender and particularly welcome applicants from underrepresented backgrounds.

For further information please submit your details to nathan.ramsay@langleysearch.com or call +44 (0) 333 366 0839 quoting 1267707NR