What's involved with this role: NOTE: the pay rate is provisional only and the and will be amended with the confirmed rate once received Interim Senior Category Manager Job Ref: Oldham 0009 B819 / 1 Pay Rate: up to £370 per day PAYE max Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours Role Length: This opening assignment is for 6 months City: OLDHAM Hybrid A Senior Category Manager, focusing on Procurement for Construction and Highways Categories. The role involves leading high-value procurement exercises, ensuring compliance with legislation, and delivering innovative procurement strategies. This role is ideal for someone with extensive experience in managing complex procurement projects, ensuring value for money, and compliance with procurement legislation. Key Responsibilities: Lead and deliver high-value category procurement exercises to secure goods, works, and services that meet the needs of customers, residents, and users while ensuring value for money and compliance with relevant policies. Manage a range of procurements that are uniquely complex in terms of impact on individuals, communities, and a wider range of stakeholders. Work within and actively shape markets that demand exceptional experience, with a high degree of political, public, and reputational subjection. Lead and direct multiple procurements with challenging budget implications, including those with cross-organisational dependencies. Proactively influence and shape policy decision-making by providing innovative business insight and category expertise. Develop and maintain an up-to-date pipeline of procurement projects in collaboration with the client area. Design and deliver innovative procurement category strategies that challenge existing delivery models and ensure corporate objectives and service needs are met. Key requirements: Strong understanding of procurement legislation and best practices. Excellent understanding of compliance requirements. Proven experience in category management, particularly in construction and highways. Experience in developing and implementing category strategies. Strong research skills Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. Ability to lead and manage complex procurement projects. Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for. Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the role to help support your application should be clearly shown in your CV. Due to the number of CVs being sent to us unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. ALD Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please.