Global Category Manager - Finance & Consultancy Services in Watford

Global Category Manager - Consultancy & Finance Services

My global medtech client is currently looking for a Global Category Manager to lead indirect procurement across a portfolio spanning Management Consultancy, Audit Services, Financial Services.

You will Build & deliver the global Consultancy & Finance Services category strategy form scratch in conjunction with business stakeholders and aligned to organisational priorities with a Category valued at £100m

This role is responsible for building aglobal Consultancy & Finance Services category strategy.

Consultancy and advisory services play an important role in enabling business transformation, operational improvement and specialist expertise across my client so we are looking for a strategic category leader who can navigate complex stakeholder environments, influence business decisions, shape supplier strategy and drive sustainable commercial value.

This role combines category leadership, strategic business partnering and commercial transformation to help my client optimise how it accesses and deploys external expertise globally.

You will work through influence across a global matrix organisation, challenging conventional thinking.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Domain Experience: 10+ years of experience managing Consultancy, Professional Services, Advisory Services, Financial Services, or related categories within a complex global organization.
• Strategic Execution: Proven success in developing and executing category strategies that deliver measurable business and financial value.
• Sourcing & Negotiation: Demonstrated expertise in leading complex sourcing initiatives, commercial negotiations, and strategic supplier relationship management.
• Stakeholder Management: Exceptional communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills across global matrix environments, with the ability to challenge requirements constructively.
• Commercial & Market Acumen: Strong ability to leverage market intelligence, benchmarking, and analytics to balance value delivery, governance, and risk management.
• Change & Transformation: Experience supporting business transformation, change management, or continuous improvement initiatives.
• Matrix Leadership: Proven capability to lead effectively through expertise and influence without direct line-management responsibility.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsibility for developing and delivering the long-term category strategy and value creation roadmap.
• Leadership through a global matrix of Procurement and functional resources.
• Significant impact on value delivery, supplier performance, governance, commercial risk management and business transformation initiatives.
• Category Strategy & Value Creation: Build and execute the global category strategy, establishing a multi-year value pipeline focused on cost optimization, demand management, and risk reduction.
• Strategic Business Partnering: Serve as a key commercial partner to Finance, Legal, and business leadership, ensuring early procurement engagement in planning and transformation initiatives.
• Governance & Demand Management: Partner with stakeholders to enhance visibility, planning, compliance, and commercial governance across consultancy expenditure.
• Lead strategic sourcing initiatives, complex negotiations, and supplier relationship management to secure optimal commercial models.
• Transformation & Innovation: Support enterprise-wide transformation programs by leveraging market intelligence, analytics, and innovative supplier capabilities.
• Responsibility for developing and delivering the long-term category strategy and value creation roadmap.
• Leadership through a global matrix of Procurement and functional resources.
• Significant impact on value delivery, supplier performance, governance, commercial risk management and business transformation initiatives.
• Individual contributor role with leadership delivered through expertise, influence and collaboration.

The role offers hybrid working based out of Watiord and will require some global travel.

This is an excellent opportunity to develop a new category from scratch so dont delay and apply asap to find out more about the opportunity as I have interview slots ready to be filled.

Randstad Technologies is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.