Senior Category Manager – TDDI (3 Month FTC) Full Time NEW

Senior Category Manager – TDDI (3‑Month FTC)

Location: Remote – Stevenage

Salary: Competitive Salary

Contract: Full time 40 hours per week – (3 months FTC)

Job Description:

We’re looking for an experienced and commercially focused Senior Category Manager – TDDI to lead strategic sourcing and category management across the UK & ROI. This is a high-impact leadership role where you’ll shape procurement strategy, strengthen supplier performance, and deliver measurable commercial value across a complex and fast-paced business environment.

Working closely with regional stakeholders, global buying teams, and operational leaders, you’ll develop and implement category strategies that improve profitability, mitigate risk, ensure compliance, and drive continuous improvement. You’ll negotiate key regional agreements, optimise supplier relationships, and identify innovative, responsible sourcing opportunities that support both operational and commercial objectives.

You’ll also lead and develop a small team of Category Managers, building capability, driving performance and ensuring best-in-class procurement practices across your categories.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead sourcing and category strategies across the UK & ROI, balancing technical, quality, and commercial requirements.
• Deliver commercial savings, improve contract performance, and optimise supplier agreements.
• Negotiate regional contracts and secure best-value pricing and commercial terms.
• Collaborate with global buying teams to align category development and sourcing strategies.
• Build strong supplier partnerships that drive innovation, service excellence, and responsible sourcing.
• Ensure compliance, due diligence, continuity planning, and risk mitigation across all categories.
• Monitor KPIs and commercial performance, partnering with Finance to ensure robust reporting.
• Support SRM/SPM activities, supplier transformation initiatives, and escalation management.
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of Category Managers.

Requirements:

• Significant experience within Buying or Category Management, ideally within a complex, multi-site environment.
• Proven track record of delivering sourcing strategies and negotiating high-value, complex contracts.
• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to drive savings, improve supplier performance, and deliver measurable results.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills, with experience working across matrix and multi-cultural organisations.
• Strong leadership capability with experience managing and developing teams.
• Experience across indirect procurement categories and both goods and services procurement is highly desirable.
• CIPS, ISM, or equivalent procurement qualification preferred.
• Strong project management and organisational skills with a results-driven mindset.
• Experience within sectors such as Healthcare, Corporate Services, Public Sector, or Pharma would be advantageous.

Sodexo’s Business Support segment sits at the heart of our organisation, providing the essential services that keep our operations running smoothly and efficiently. As a central function, Business Support brings together a diverse range of specialist teams – including our technology and digital services – to deliver the systems, processes and expertise that enable Sodexo to thrive.

From driving innovation to ensuring seamless administrative, commercial and operational support, the Business Support segment plays a critical role in strengthening performance across all parts of the business. Joining this segment means becoming part of a collaborative, solutions‑focused environment where your work directly contributes to the success of our people, our clients and the communities we serve.