Senior Category Manager

• Daily Rate: £500 (Umbrella/Inside IR35)
• Location: Oldham
• Job Type: 6-month Temporary Contract

Join Oldham Council as a Senior Category Manager, focusing on Procurement for Construction and Highways Categories. This role is ideal for someone with extensive experience in managing complex procurement projects, ensuring value for money, and compliance with procurement legislation.

• Lead and deliver high-value category procurement exercises to secure goods, works, and services that meet the needs of customers, residents, and users while ensuring value for money and compliance with relevant policies.
• Manage a range of procurements that are uniquely complex in terms of impact on individuals, communities, and a wider range of stakeholders.
• Work within and actively shape markets that demand exceptional experience, with a high degree of political, public, and reputational subjection.
• Lead and direct multiple procurements with challenging budget implications, including those with cross-organisational dependencies.
• Proactively influence and shape policy decision-making by providing innovative business insight and category expertise.
• Develop and maintain an up-to-date pipeline of procurement projects in collaboration with the client area.
• Design and deliver innovative procurement category strategies that challenge existing delivery models and ensure corporate objectives and service needs are met.
• Apply legislation and Oldham Council’s Contract Procedure Rules to realise optimal commercial solutions.
• Undertake research into regional and national best practices, maintaining a high level of knowledge of the latest trends and applying this to procurement activities.

• Proven experience in category management, particularly in construction and highways.
• Strong ability to manage complex and high-impact procurement projects.
• Excellent understanding of procurement legislation and compliance requirements.
• Strong research skills and the ability to stay updated with market and political trends.

• Competitive daily rate..
• Opportunity to work on significant, impactful projects within public service.
• Engage with a wide range of stakeholders and contribute to meaningful community outcomes.

To apply for the Senior Category Manager position, please submit your CV and a Reed Consultant will be in touch to discuss the next steps.