Senior Category Manager

Looking for a Senior Category Manager for our huge gaming and betting client, having experience into commercial category or professional services.Contract role - Outside IR35Rate - £550-£575 per dayLocation - Leeds/London, once a day per week onsiteDuration - 6 monthsThis role is to support our client's existing team in addressing & identifying significant & strategic value opportunities across multiple business & procurement areas.This will involve targeting & sizing value levers and working with the team to agree & clarify ongoing treatment and management.Specifically developing a strategy and execution plan around tail spendProviding category support in improving business case discipline, capability in support of Procurement benefit pipeline and embedding best practiceSupport assembly of a 3 year plan & strategic opportunity pipelineAssisting with ad hoc commercial delivery & other key objectives as required & as per experience.Demonstrated success in delivering cost reduction, risk mitigation, and commercial value within significant spend categories.Broad Procurement / commercial category in-depth experience with good understanding of key value levers for addressing all areas of the supply base, including but not limited to make/buy decision making tail spend, Purchasing Cards, OLAs, demand management, supply base rationalizationAbility to communicate ideas and build best practice assets that add value clearly and simplyAbility to work autonomouslyExperience working at pace and in conditions of ambiguityEvidence of producing high quality & practical outputsExperience in embedding ESG agenda's into sourcing and category management disciplinesExperience working in betting/sports/media/retail/professional services advantageous (but not essential).

Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.