Senior Category Manager - Corporate Services
Posted Today by Manpower UK Ltd
Negotiable
Inside
Undetermined
Farnborough, Hampshire
Summary: The Senior Category Manager for Corporate Services is responsible for managing a £100m spend across various categories, including HR and Professional Services, while supporting key global functions. This role involves building strategic relationships with stakeholders, executing category strategies, and leading sourcing activities. The position also requires managing risks and supporting supplier relationship management to ensure value realization. The role is based in Farnborough and operates under an inside IR35 status.
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 maximize 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 Skills:
- Strong communication skills to convey complex commercial and strategic concepts
- Ability to align diverse stakeholders behind shared objectives
- Confident decision-making skills, balancing commercial, operational and risk considerations
- Experience in building collaborative and trusted relationships with stakeholders and suppliers
- Demonstrated resilience and adaptability during transformation
- Integrity, accountability, and a growth mindset
- Proactive in improving processes and contributing to Supply Chain and Procurement functional development
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Farnborough
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Role: Senior Category Manager-Corporate Services
Location: Farnborough(3 days/week)
Duration: 6 months
Rate: competitive
Inside IR35: Umbrella
Corporate Services
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 maximize 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 x-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