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Senior Category Specialist
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Senior Category Specialist
Glasgow City Centre
Flexible & Hybrid Working
£300-£400 per day
Your new company
Hays are delighted to be partnering with a respected organisation based in Glasgow city centre as they look to appoint an experienced Interim Senior Category Specialist. This is an exciting opportunity for a senior procurement professional to join a busy and collaborative function, supporting strategic procurement activity across a broad range of categories.
Your new role
As a Senior Category Specialist, you will play a key role in delivering value-driven procurement solutions and supporting stakeholders across the business. Operating as a procurement generalist, you will manage end-to-end sourcing activity, contribute to category strategies, and ensure best practice procurement processes are followed.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Leading end-to-end procurement and sourcing exercises across multiple spend categories.
- Developing and implementing category management strategies.
- Managing supplier negotiations, tender processes, and contract awards.
- Building effective relationships with internal stakeholders and providing procurement expertise.
- Identifying opportunities for cost savings, value improvement, and risk mitigation.
- Supporting supplier performance management and contract compliance.
- Ensuring procurement activity complies with relevant legislation, governance, and organisational policies.
- Producing procurement reports, spend analysis, and commercial recommendations.
- Supporting procurement projects through evaluation, supplier selection, and contract award stages.
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What you'll need to succeed
To be successful in this role, you will have:
- Demonstrable experience within a senior procurement, category management, or strategic sourcing role.
- A strong procurement generalist background with exposure to a variety of spend categories.
- Excellent stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.
- Strong commercial acumen and negotiation capabilities.
- Experience delivering procurement projects from strategy through to contract award.
- The ability to work autonomously and manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- MCIPS qualification or progress towards accreditation would be advantageous.
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What you'll get in return
- Competitive day rate of £300-£400 per day
- Flexible & hybrid working arrangement
- Glasgow city centre location with excellent transport links
- Opportunity to work within a high-performing procurement team
- Immediate start available
- Exposure to a diverse and varied procurement portfolio
What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'Apply Now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or contact us for a confidential discussion about your next interim procurement opportunity.
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