Morgan Advanced Materials
Global Category Manager - IT & Professional Services - Indirect Procurement
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Global Category Manager - IT & Professional Services
Location: UK or Mainland Europe
Morgan Advanced Materials
Morgan Advanced Materials has been solving complex engineering and manufacturing challenges since 1856. Today, we're a global business with around 8,000 employees across more than 70 sites, using advanced ceramic and carbon technologies to help customers improve performance, efficiency, and sustainability.
We're strengthening our global indirect procurement capability and are looking for an experienced Global Category Manager to take ownership of our IT and Professional Services categories. This is a high-profile role with significant visibility across the organisation, partnering closely with business leaders and helping shape procurement strategy at a global level.
You'll also act as Procurement Business Partner for our corporate functions, making this as much about stakeholder influence as it is about sourcing expertise.
The Role
You'll lead the development and delivery of global category strategies across IT and Professional Services, managing significant spend, strategic suppliers, and complex stakeholder groups across multiple regions.
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Most of your internal customers and suppliers will be based in Europe, although the scope and impact of the role are genuinely global.
Responsibilities
What You'll Do
- Lead global category strategies across IT, digital, software, telecoms, infrastructure, consulting, and professional services
- Partner with senior business leaders to align procurement activity with organisational priorities
- Act as Procurement Business Partner to corporate and head office functions
- Lead strategic sourcing and contract negotiations across global and multi-regional supplier agreements
- Develop supplier relationship management (SRM) strategies for key technology and services partners
- Identify opportunities to improve cost, service, innovation, and risk management
- Build and lead cross-functional sourcing teams across multiple regions
- Support wider procurement initiatives including transformation, capability development, and business integration activities
- Drive compliance and adoption of procurement strategies and agreements
Qualifications
About You
- Several years' experience managing global IT categories within large, complex organisations
- Strong background covering areas such as software, infrastructure, cloud, telecoms, managed services, and professional services
- Experience managing significant spend across multiple geographies and stakeholder groups
- Proven success delivering strategic sourcing initiatives and commercial value
- Comfortable influencing senior stakeholders and operating within matrix organisations
- Strong negotiation, supplier management, and contract management skills
- Analytical, commercially minded, and able to balance strategic thinking with delivery
- Experience using procurement technologies, spend analytics, eSourcing, and contract management tools
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What You'll Get
- Opportunity to help shape a growing global procurement function
- Exposure to complex international sourcing programmes
- High visibility across senior leadership teams
- Significant scope to influence procurement strategy and business outcomes
- Competitive salary and benefits package
Interested?
If you're an experienced IT procurement leader looking for a genuinely global role with strategic influence, we'd love to hear from you.
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