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Senior Category Manager
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Senior Category Manager
High-Impact Procurement Strategist (HR & Professional Services) – OneAdvanced
Join OneAdvanced in an urgent, hybrid role within our [Mailbox, Birmingham] office (2–3 days per week).
Deliver strategic procurement leadership across HR and Professional Services, shaping a growing function with impact.
About the Role
This is a fast-growth opportunity to take ownership of key procurement categories, collaborating closely with senior leaders. You’ll drive cost efficiency, supplier excellence, and value creation while fostering a data-driven, future-focused procurement approach.
As part of one of the UK’s largest business software and services companies, your work will directly support our mission to power innovation, industry solutions, and societal impact across sectors like Education, Healthcare, Government, and more.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Category Ownership
- Develop and execute category strategies for HR and Professional Services to optimise commercial value and operational efficiency
- Lead end-to-end sourcing initiatives, including negotiations of complex redactboards, contractual terms, compliance requirements, remuneration bands, and implementation plans
Complete Supplier Lifecycle Management
- Select, onboard, and manage suppliers with rigorous due diligence
- Track and monitor supplier performance, risk, and compliance
- Negotiate agreement scope and costs to prevent scope creep while ensuring delivery quality
Stakeholder Partnership & Transformation
- Collaborate with HR, Finance, Legal, and Professional Services teams to embed procurement excellence
- Influence stakeholders to balance cost savings, risk mitigation, and business needs
- Support *technology implementation and outsourced service delivery projects
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Process Innovation
- Contribute to procedures, tools, and policy frameworks as procurement matures
- Champion a proactive, evidence-based approach to decision-making
Elevate Assisted HR Operations
- Procure solutions aligned with assisted HR needs
- Ensure procurement supports efficient, positive employee experiences
Strategic Initiatives
- Drive projects such as Cybersecurity, digital workplace platforms, UIELS contracts, and financial services procurement
Requirements
Essential:
📌 Senior procurement experience (3+ years minimum) 📌 Expertise in supplier procurement directly relating to HR, HR Technology, or Professional Services categories (e.g. outsourcing, SaaS contracts, recruiting, health, wellbeing, pensions) 📌 Experience negotiating complex contracts and clauses (e.g. SOUs/IfAs, SLAs, pensions schemes, disability support, self-insurance) 📌 Influential leadership with stakeholders at all levels 📌 Commercial acumen in managing cost, risk, and quality 📌 Resilience, adaptability, and business critical mindset
Desirable:
✔ Understanding of assisted HR systems, employment law, or ethical responsibility schemes ✔ Except consumer marketing, relevant prior tech environment experience
Why Join OneAdvanced?
Wellbeing & Family Support
🩺 26 days paid holiday + bank holidays with option to purchase extra 👶 26 weeks fully paid maternity/adoption, 4 weeks fully paid paternity (so-called “standard” rights), 22 weeks shared parental leave 🛡 Up to 5 shared days paid annual bereavement allowance ➕ 2 paid volunteering days annually
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🏥 Sick pay policy: 13wks full and 13 more weeks half pay
Employee Heaven + Private Medical Coverage
💡 Backed by equal employee assistance programme (24/7 confidential HR/social welfare resources) 🩺 Private medical insurance with zero medical-history exclusions
Financial Benefits
🎁 Performance bonus schemes tied to role 💰 Salary protection insurance (up to 75% of salary for 5 years)
Personal Growth
📚 SkillsHub provides access to leadership programmes, development tools plus a comprehensive online learning library
Impact Driven Work
💚 Fundraise a cause aka matchIt! – we’ll match part of your chosen charity donations ✱ “Pennies from Heaven” – rounds up salary payments to donate spare pennies
Flexible Perks
🚗 ULEV car scheme over 1000 models 📍 RewardHub platform with dental care, health cover, partner life insurance options
Who We Are
OneAdvanced is reshaping business solutions with sector-specific software and services. Our 1,000+ team transforms complex challenges in Education, Healthcare, Government, and Consumer markets.
Innovate. Collaborate. Liberate.
📌 Looking for a procurement role with meaningful impact? Apply now to help us lead the future of tech, work, and equality! ✨ 🌐 Learn more
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