LSEG
Category Manager, Tech Services
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About Us
LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a commitment to excellence in delivering the services our customers expect from us. With extensive experience, deep knowledge, and a worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk, and create jobs. It’s how we’ve contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years.
Through a comprehensive suite of trusted financial market infrastructure services – and our open-access model – we provide the flexibility, stability, and trust that enable our customers to pursue their ambitions with confidence and clarity.
LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America, and Asia Pacific. We employ 25,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific. LSEG’s ticker symbol is LSEG.
Our People
People are at the heart of what we do and drive the success of our business. Our culture of connecting, creating opportunity, and delivering excellence shape how we think, how we do things, and how we help our people fulfill their potential.
We embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. We break down barriers and encourage teamwork, enabling innovation and rapid development of solutions that make a difference. Our workplace generates an enriching and rewarding experience for our people and customers alike. Our vision is to build an inclusive culture in which everyone feels encouraged to fulfill their potential.
As a global organization spanning 70 countries and one rooted in a culture of growth, opportunity, diversity, and innovation, LSEG is a place where everyone can grow, develop, and fulfill your potential with meaningful careers.
About Group Procurement
Group Procurement at LSEG manages third-party supplier engagements, partnering with the business to deliver high performance and sustainable value. We view our suppliers as strategic partners and sources of competitive advantage—not merely cost centers. Our operating model is built around business partnering and supplier relationship management (SRM), aligned to stakeholder groups and spend categories, enabling early engagement and data-driven decision-making.
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With a global supplier base of approximately 5,000 and annual spend of £2 billion, the team is structured into three core towers—Technology, Services, and Corporate—supported by a Strategy & Performance Centre and a Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) team. Key hubs are located in London, Bangalore, and New York, with decentralized support across Europe and Asia.
Role Purpose
Provides specialist procurement expertise and insights for the Technology Services category within the Services Tower with the express intent of delivering year-on-year value-add to the Group, taking ownership of sourcing, supplier relationship management, and business partnering for a defined sub-category of spend. Predominantly supporting the Engineering organization.
Role Responsibilities
- Owns a L3 category of spend and holds accountability for the category spend and sourcing activity, supplier relationship management, and business partnering for a defined sub-category of spend;
- Develops and owns a dynamic Category Strategy.
- Works with Category Leads to support people development (experience and skills) for senior buyers within the same category (where applicable);
- Acts as business partner to stakeholders, working closely on requirements gathering and negotiations and takes responsibility for the procurement aspects of strategic and/or commercial projects;
- Requires risk management or appropriate involvement and maintains up-to-date knowledge of procurement process developments to support stakeholders;
- Ensures application of appropriate governance, risk management, and controls in line with internal and external policies;
- Supports the execution of the wider procurement strategy and transformation roadmap to develop a best-in-class function.
Qualifications & Experience:
- Experience in procurement / category management essential;
- Experience in Technology Services procurement desirable but not essential;
- Educated to degree level;
- Procurement / supply operation qualification, e.g. MCIPS or IAACM (desirable);
- Experience in a similar industry.
- Experience of senior stakeholder engagement (preferably at C-level)
Career Stage:
Manager
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) Information:
Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement. If you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact, we'd love to hear from you.
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LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies, and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.
Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence, and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision-making and everyday actions.
Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organization of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce.
We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone’s race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.
You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas. We are committed to sustainability across our global business and we are proud to partner with our customers to help them meet their sustainability objectives. Our charity, the LSEG Foundation, provides charitable grants to community groups that help people access economic opportunities and build a secure future with financial independence. Colleagues can get involved through fundraising and volunteering.
LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days, and wellbeing initiatives.
Please take a moment to read this privacy notice carefully, as it describes what personal information London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) (we) may hold about you, what it’s used for, and how it’s obtained, your rights, and how to contact us as a data subject.
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