Category Manager

We're currently seeking a Category Manager to deliver procurements, embedding and applying a best practice commeial aprcproach to external and in-house spend and providing support and challenge across the Procurement lifecycle in order to deliver value for money outcomes.

Based initially within the Property and Fleet Procurement Hub, you'll have extensive experience across a range of categories to effectively run procurements on behalf of our stakeholders. You'll be deployed to manage tender exercises for service provider procurements and deliver transformational savings through a commercial best practice approach.

To be successful in this role you'll primarily have strategic procurement experience with in-depth knowledge of category management, sourcing methodologies and conflict resolution. The successful individual will need to be conversant with the current iteration of the Public Contract Regulations.

The role is designed to be flexible and will not necessarily remain exclusive to the categories in which it starts, depending on overall workload across the procurement hub.

What can we offer you?

Hampshire County Council is recognised nationally as one of the highest performing local authorities in the UK. A modern, forward-looking local authority, it offers a pleasant, supportive, and collaborative working environment. We can offer great flexible working options for this role as we've invested heavily in various technologies to support ongoing remote working options. This role can be partly carried out remotely but some office-based working will be required to support business needs.

Hampshire County Council is also a flexible employer interested in making the most of your skills and offers a great work life balance. We invest in you through our internal development programmes and training and offer a competitive salary and benefits package.