Senior Category Manager

Role: Senior Category Manager

Location: Peterborough - two days a week in the office (flexible in which)

Salary: £55,895 to £61,373 per annum

Duration: Permanent

Sellick Partnership Recruitment Services are currently looking for a permanent Senior Category Manager to support our client based in Cambridgeshire. This is an exciting opportunity to join an ever-growing public sector organisation who support the wider community; with excellent benefits to offer and room for growth and promotion.

Main Duties of the Senior Category Manager:

• Provide a comprehensive and compliant procurement service to the organisation
• Deliver a variety of contracts in social care, property, leisure and public health
• Stakeholder engagement, supplier engagement, soft market testing, benchmarking, tendering, evaluation and award
• Working directly with senior internal and external stakeholders
• Delivery of end-to-end processes for all procurements
• Management and leading of cross functional project teams
• Analysing data effectively and spend profiling
• Deputise for Head of Procurement.

Our client is looking for a motivated and ambitious professional with relevant skills and experience to support the Head of Procurement.

Key Skills and Experience of the Senior Category Manager:

• Ideally working towards MCIPS qualification, QBE 5+ years
• Detailed expert knowledge of category management
• Strong stakeholder management and engagement skills
• Ideally public sector experience
• Strategy preparation and delivery
• Expert practitioner in public contract regulations
• Experience of procuring contracts under EU and UK public contracts legislation
• Staff and Team Management
• A 'can do' attitude to getting things done that supports a teamwork approach
• Manage workloads within tight timescales.

Benefits of the organisation:

• 24 days annual leave, with more rewarded for length of service (including 8 bank holidays)
• Organisational contribution of 18.3%, whilst you pay 6.3%
• Wellbeing - family policies, 24/7 employee assistance, learning and development
• Benefits provider.

If you are interested in hearing more about the role, please contact Rebecca on or email for a confidential discussion or apply online and a member of the team will give you a call.

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