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Senior Category Manager
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Description
Heathrow’s Energy & Utilities Transformation team are seeking a Senior Category Manager to drive delivery across a fast-growing energy portfolio and help shape the airport’s long-term utilities strategy. You will lead end-to-end procurement for critical operational categories, shaping how the airport sources, contracts, and manages the goods and services that keep our energy systems running. You will design and deliver smart procurement strategies that unlock value, reduce risk, and strengthen operational performance from market intelligence and options analysis through to sourcing, negotiation, and post-contract delivery.
Working closely with engineering, operations, and commercial teams, you will turn complex technical and commercial detail into clear, actionable plans that support Heathrow’s short- and long-term energy ambitions. You will build category plans, pre-contract strategies, total cost of ownership assessments, and commercial models, ensuring every decision is robust, defensible, and aligned with governance and competition law.
Responsibilities
- Managing end-to-end procurement for Heathrow’s Energy & Utilities category, including strategy development, sourcing, negotiation, contract award, and post-contract management.
- Developing category strategies, market intelligence, commercial models, and options analysis to maximize value, minimize risk, and support operational and long-term business objectives.
- Running competitive sourcing processes for complex, high-value spend areas, including market engagement, evaluation design, tendering, and ensuring compliance with procurement governance and competition law.
- Working closely with operational, engineering, and commercial stakeholders to align procurement strategy, challenge business plans, and ensure robust, defensible decision-making.
- Managing supplier performance through contract management, KPIs, service levels, and continuous improvement, while coaching and supporting colleagues within the procurement function.
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Qualifications
- Strong technical grounding in energy utilities and renewable procurement, with experience across electricity, water, gas, fuel, or desalination.
- Proven experience delivering long-term renewable energy contracts such as Power Purchase Agreements, with understanding of commercial, regulatory, and technical factors.
- Ability to translate complex engineering and market information into clear commercial insight for senior, non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong commercial and contractual capability, including experience using recognized contracting models such as NEC or similar industry-standard forms.
- Experience delivering procurement or commercial outcomes within large programme or matrix environments, influencing multiple stakeholder groups.
- Leadership experience, including managing and developing team members and contributing to high-performance delivery.
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Desirable Skills
- Experience working within energy suppliers, brokers, or TPIs (e.g., Amber Energy, Inspired Energy), or within utilities, renewables, oil & gas, or National Grid-type organizations.
- Exposure to multi-year renewable procurement cycles, commercialisation models, or regulated/unregulated energy delivery routes.
- Experience contributing to large programme environments or multi-workstream delivery.
- Familiarity with supplier-partnering environments and integrated delivery models.
- Experience coaching and developing early-career team members.
- Broader experience with industry-standard contracting models beyond NEC.
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