Senior Category Manager

Position Overview

This Senior Category Manager opportunity offers the chance to lead procurement delivery in a complex, business-critical environment: IT Software and Services.

The Senior Category Manager will play a key role in supporting business priorities through commercial leadership, stakeholder engagement and programme coordination.

This Senior Category Manager position is suited to a commercially strong professional with deep experience across software and services categories.

Role Context

This role sits within a procurement environment supporting business priorities through hub or site-based operations.

The position involves working in a hybrid setting, with 3 days in the Surrey office, and leading activity across a large team while engaging with senior internal and external stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage a large team to deliver procurement, programme and stakeholder management support aligned to business priorities.
• Coordinate the development of demand forecasts to support procurement operations.
• Enable value delivery across category activity while supporting compliance with agreed service expectations.
• Lead commercial negotiations across software and services categories.
• Build and manage effective relationships with senior stakeholders, including C-suite level contacts.

Qualifications & Experience: Essential:

• Degree qualification.
• Extensive experience as a commercial negotiator.
• Strong understanding of contractual terms and conditions within IT software and services categories.
• Experience managing relationships with senior internal and external stakeholders, including C-suite stakeholders.

Desirable:

• Experience of SAP S4/HANA.

About Airswift

Airswift is an international workforce solutions provider within the energy, process and infrastructure industries.

Airswift serves as a strategic partner to clients, offering a turnkey workforce solution to capture and deliver the top talent needed to complete successful projects by aligning with unique hiring needs.

With over 1000 employees and 9,000 contractors operating in over 60 countries, the geographical reach and talent network available is unmatched in the industry.