Global Category Manager - Supply Chain & Logistics

Global Category Manager – Supply Chain & Logistics 

Salary: £45,100 - £60,400 

Location: Cambridge, UK/Hybrid - minimum 2 days working from the office  

Contract: Permanent   

Hours: Full time – 35 hours per week   

Lead a critical global category at the heart of our operations, influencing how goods, services, and information move efficiently across our organisation. 

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.  

About the role      

As our Global Category Manager - Supply Chain & Logistics, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring our global supply chain operates efficiently, sustainably, and resiliently. Leading category strategy across logistics and supply chain services, you'll help optimise how products, materials, and services move across our global operations while ensuring continuity, performance, and value at every stage.  

Working closely with Supply Chain, Operations, Finance, and Procurement teams, you'll identify opportunities to strengthen supplier performance, improve service levels, enhance fulfilment capabilities, and reduce operational risk. You'll provide expert guidance on market trends, logistics networks, transportation solutions, and supply chain innovations, helping the organisation navigate an increasingly complex global landscape. 

Key areas of responsibility include: 

• Shaping and delivering the global Supply Chain & Logistics category strategy 

• Understanding local constraints and requirements 

• Driving improvements in logistics performance, service quality, and supply continuity 

• Leading strategic sourcing initiatives across supply chain and logistics services 

• Building high-performing partnerships with key logistics and supply chain providers 

• Identifying opportunities to reduce cost, mitigate risk, and enhance operational resilience 

• Leveraging market intelligence and emerging technologies to support transformation and continuous improvement 

This is an opportunity to make a tangible impact on how our global supply chain operates, ensuring we remain agile, resilient, and well-positioned to support the organisation's long-term growth and strategic ambitions. You will provide insight to challenge and influence stakeholders to optimise our Supply Chain especially when local requirements might not fit a global goal.     

This position has been classified as a hybrid role, requiring the selected candidate to typically spend 40-60% of their time collaborating and connecting face-to-face at their dedicated location. Aside from our hybrid principles, other flexible working requests will be considered from the first day of employment, including other work arrangements should you require adjustments due to a disability or long-term health condition.     

About You   

You will be an experienced procurement professional with a strong background in Supply Chain and Logistics categories, including areas such as freight, warehousing, fulfilment, packaging logistics, and logistics service providers.  

You'll understand the challenges of global supply chains and have experience developing strategies that improve performance, strengthen resilience, and deliver commercial value. 

With strong commercial and negotiation skills, you'll be confident managing complex supplier relationships and contracts, balancing cost, risk, service quality, and business continuity.  

You'll also be comfortable influencing stakeholders across Supply Chain, Operations, Finance, and Procurement, using market insight and data to support decision-making and drive continuous improvement. 

If you meet the above minimum requirements, we encourage you to apply. Your application will be even stronger if you can also demonstrate the following desirable criteria: 

• CIPS qualification (or working towards). 

• Experience supporting supply chain transformation, automation, or digital logistics initiatives. 

• Experience managing global supplier relationships and international supply chain networks. 

For a detailed job description, please refer to the link at the bottom of the advert on our careers site.  

We are a Disability Confident (DC) employer that is committed to equality and inclusion ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to all. The DC scheme's Offer of an Interview commitment applies to applicants who opt in, and disclose a disability or a long-term health condition, and who best meet the minimum criteria for the role. In instances where interviewing all qualifying candidates is not practicable and/or appropriate, we prioritise those who best meet the minimum criteria, as we would for applicants who do not have a disability or long-term health condition.  

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is an approved UK employer for the sponsorship of eligible roles and applicants under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please refer to the gov uk website for guidance to understand your own eligibility based on the role you are applying for.    

Rewards and benefits   

We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:  

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays  

• Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance   

• Discretionary annual bonus   

• Group personal pension scheme  

• Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary   

• Green travel schemes    

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.   

We aim to support candidates by making our interview process clear and transparent. The closing date for all applications will be 31st August 2026. We will review applications on an ongoing basis, and shortlisted candidates can expect interviews to take place from week commencing 7th September 2026.   

If you are shortlisted and progressed through the stages, you can expect:    

• First stage virtual interview via MS Teams. 

• Final stage interview: in-person at our offices in Cambridge.  

If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process due to a disability or a long-term health condition, there will be an opportunity for you to inform us via the online application form. We will do our best to accommodate your needs.  

Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.  

We are committed to an equitable recruitment process. As such, applications must be submitted via our official online application procedure. Please refrain from sending your CV directly to our recruiters. If you experience technical difficulties or require additional support with submitting your online application, contact the Recruiter.   

Why join us    

Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You will belong to a collaborative team that is exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe – for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.  

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it is safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.  

We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.  

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