Online Category Manager

Category Manager Hybrid (1 day onsite min) Morgan Hunt are delighted to be supporting a public sector organisation as they look to welcome a Category Manager for their Social Care/People category. The purpose of this role is to lead and manage the procurement function, ensuring compliance, value for money, and effective commercial governance across all purchasing activities. The role supports the delivery of high-quality, cost-effective, and legally compliant procurement strategies, contracts, and supplier relationships that reduce risk and improve service outcomes. Lead and support strategic procurement activities across the organisation, ensuring compliance, value for money, and effective commercial governance. Develop and implement procurement, category, and contract strategies for high-value and high-risk contracts. Provide expert procurement advice and guidance to services, senior leaders, elected members, and external partners. Identify procurement risks, challenge poor practice, and ensure adherence to procurement policies and procedures. Lead, support, and develop procurement staff and colleagues with delegated procurement responsibilities while promoting collaborative and positive working practices. Public Sector procurement experience needed (can be a mix of public and private) Ability to develop and implement high level and individual contract strategies Experience of managing, developing and reporting complex projects. Ability to negotiate and award contracts in accordance with procurement policy, procedures and strategy Morgan Hunt is a multi-award-winning recruitment business for interim, contract and temporary recruitment and acts as an Employment Agency in relation to permanent vacancies. Morgan Hunt is a multi-award-winning recruitment business for interim, contract and temporary recruitment and acts as an Employment Agency in relation to permanent vacancies.