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Global Category Manager

Ref: AS1768091

Woking, Surrey

£80,000

  • Permanent
  • Strategic Category Management
  • Supplier Risk Management
  • Food Procurement

About the candidate

This candidate is an accomplished supply chain and procurement professional with over nine years’ experience across the food industry, specialising in strategic category management, supplier relationships and risk management. They bring strong commercial awareness and a practical approach to building category strategies that improve value, transparency and service delivery.

They have worked across food distribution, global manufacturing and grocery retail environments, partnering with regional and cross-functional teams to align sourcing activity with wider business goals. Available to start in two weeks, they are now seeking a permanent opportunity where they can continue driving procurement performance and supplier-led improvement.

What makes them great?

  • Delivered Meaningful Cost Savings: Introduced governance processes that improved transparency and data analysis, contributing to around a 15% cost reduction over two years.
  • Improved Supply Chain Reliability: Supported logistics and vendor management activity that helped achieve around a 20% improvement in on-time delivery for critical inventory items.
  • Drives Supplier-Led Improvement: Played a key role in launching a supplier performance management system, improving efficiency while reducing supplier risk.

Areas of expertise

  • Strategic Category Management: Experienced in developing and delivering category strategies across protein sourcing and wider food procurement environments.
  • Supplier Performance & Risk: Strong background in supplier compliance, quality standards and performance management systems to reduce risk and improve reliability.
  • Commercial Analysis: Confident using spend data, category metrics and operational insight to identify savings opportunities and support sourcing decisions.