Category Manager / Senior Category Specialist

Morgan Consulting is delighted to partner with a large and highly regarded organisation as they look to appoint an experienced Category Manager / Senior Category Specialist to join their procurement function.

Operating across a complex and highly diverse stakeholder environment, the organisation manages significant third-party expenditure across a broad portfolio of goods and services. The incumbent will be tasked with supporting a range of indirect categories, leading complex sourcing, tendering, negotiation and contracting activities.
This is a strategic, commercially focused role suited to an experienced indirect procurement generalist who enjoys variety, working across multiple spend categories and partnering with senior stakeholders to deliver strong commercial outcomes.

About The Role
Reporting to a the Head of Indirect Procurement, you will manage procurement activity across a diverse portfolio of indirect spend, independently leading multiple complex procurement projects from initial market analysis and sourcing strategy through to negotiation, contracting and implementation.

You will work closely with senior leaders and broader internal stakeholders to understand requirements, identify procurement opportunities and deliver sourcing strategies that achieve strong commercial, operational and sustainability outcomes.

Key responsibilities include:

• Managing procurement activity across a broad range of indirect spend categories
• Leading complex end-to-end strategic sourcing and procurement projects
• Developing and executing sourcing and category strategies
• Conducting market analysis, bench-marking and supplier research
• Developing tender documentation and managing competitive sourcing processes
• Managing market engagement, tender evaluation and supplier selection
• Leading commercial negotiations and contract development
• Negotiating contracts, service level agreements and commercial terms
• Managing supplier and vendor performance
• Identifying cost-saving, value creation and commercial improvement opportunities
• Partnering with senior stakeholders to understand current and future procurement requirements
• Using spend and procurement data to identify trends and commercial opportunities
• Driving continuous improvement across procurement processes and category performance
• Supporting sustainable and socially responsible procurement initiatives
• Ensuring procurement activities meet appropriate governance, compliance and probity requirements

About You
The successful candidate will bring strong generalist indirect procurement experience, with the ability to work comfortably across multiple spend categories rather than being restricted to one specialist area.

The ideal candidate will have exposure across a broad mix of indirect categories such as professional services, contingent labour, HR, recruitment, marketing, IT and technology, consulting, corporate services, travel, facilities and other business services. You will be comfortable moving between categories, quickly understanding stakeholder requirements and supplier markets, and developing sourcing strategies that deliver strong commercial outcomes.

Key Capabilities:

• Strong generalist indirect procurement experience
• Experience working across multiple indirect spend categories
• Strong end-to-end strategic sourcing capability
• Experience developing and executing sourcing and category strategies
• Strong tender development and evaluation experience
• Commercial negotiation and contract management capability
• Strong supplier and vendor management experience
• Ability to quickly understand new categories and supplier markets
• Strong analytical capability across spend, supplier and commercial data
• Excellent stakeholder management with the ability to influence at senior levels
• Experience identifying savings, efficiencies and broader value opportunities
• Strong understanding of procurement governance, probity and commercial risk
• Ability to independently manage multiple complex procurement projects

The position will suit an experienced Category Manager or Senior Category Specialist who enjoys working across a varied indirect portfolio, takes ownership of their work and is motivated by the opportunity to deliver commercial value across a large and sophisticated organisation.

Why Apply?

• Broad exposure across a diverse portfolio of indirect spend categories
• Lead complex, high-value sourcing and commercial negotiations
• Work across multiple categories rather than being restricted to one specialist area
• Partner with senior stakeholders across a large and complex organisation
• Opportunity to deliver genuine cost savings and procurement improvements
• Strong focus on strategic sourcing, sustainability and procurement best practice
• Join a sophisticated procurement function with genuine scope to influence outcomes

To make application, please click APPLY, or for a confidential discussion, please contact Sebastian Dahan via email at sdahan@morganconsulting.com.au