QinetiQ
Senior Category Manager - IT Services
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Package: £62,100 - £69,000 (salary dependent on experience) + Benefits
Role ID: SF19700
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Are you ready to be part of the future? At QinetiQ, we’re not just imagining tomorrow we are creating it. From cutting-edge defence technology to ground-breaking innovations our mission is to empower and protect lives. Join us as a Senior Category Manager IT Services, where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology in partnership with some of the most brilliant minds.
The Role
The Senior Category Manager leads complex sourcing initiatives to deliver strategic value, cost optimisation, and risk mitigation across multiple categories. Develops and execute sourcing strategies aligned with organisational objectives, leveraging market intelligence and supplier insights. Manage end-to-end procurement processes, including tendering, negotiation, and contract execution, ensuring compliance and ethical standards.
The Senior Category Manager will need to be able to identify, develop and nurture positive supplier relationships to meet QinetiQ’s future aspirations, this may involve leading industry engagement events and activities.
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Your responsibilities will include:
- Develop strong relationships with key decision-makers to influence behaviours and ensure appropriate involvement of Procurement in all sourcing activities
- Maintain awareness of the restrictions, controls and accreditations that are placed upon suppliers working in a Defence environment, always ensuring that both sourcing strategies and the incumbent supplier base do not jeopardise or threaten internal compliance
- Collaborate with the Business Partnering team to identify opportunities to utilise existent supplier relationships and frameworks that leverage Group scale
- Collaboratively develop sourcing strategies with key stakeholders to ensure alignment of targets, improve supplier performance, and implement continuous improvement plans across spend
Essential experience of the Senior Category Manager:
- Proven contract negotiation skills
- Adept at business relationship management; internally & externally facing
- Knowledge of different types of sourcing strategies
- Highly proficient in the identification & mitigation of supply chain, organisational, regulatory, legal & commercial risk
Desirable qualifications for the Senior Category Manager:
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- CIPS Qualified or equivalent experience
- Degree in a Business or Engineering discipline, or equivalent experience
We value difference and we don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.
This role is 37 hours per week and is based out of our Farnborough head office facility with an average expected attendance of 3 days per week onsite.
Farnborough
At our Farnborough site exciting work takes place at our state-of-the-art facility, with high-energy laser technologies, our 5m pressurised wind tunnel which has a simulation capability that is unique in the UK and our large research and development projects is a real hub of creativity, research and innovation. Join our talented teams of Engineers, IT & Cyber Specialists, Project Managers, Group Functions Teams and many more to provide future defences in the UK.
Please note that all applicants for this role must be eligible for SC clearance, as a minimum.
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