Category Expert for Employee Experience

24 hours ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom DS Smith Full time

We have an exciting opportunity for a Category Expert to join our Indirects Category Team at DS Smith. As a Global Category Manager for HR Services, you will lead our HR Services category, driving value and cost reduction across an assigned portfolio of spend.

About the Role

You will be responsible for providing commercial thought leadership to mature the HR Services category alongside business stakeholders, leveraging external best practices. You will develop and implement 1-3 year category strategies, supported by execution roadmaps, to deliver this strategy with short, medium, and long-term initiatives.

The successful candidate will utilises tools like Porters Five Forces and Kraljic to gain a strong understanding of market dynamics and cost drivers specific to HR & L&D. You will also understand and respond to market intelligence and economic fundamentals to ensure the best time to go to market for optimal supplier pricing and value.

As a Global Category Manager, you will be responsible for delivering supplier strategies that actively anticipate and reduce supplier risk, ensuring appropriate Supplier contracting strategies are in place, and embedding relevant supplier KPIs into project contracts. You will also work with Shared Services, Regional Procurement teams, and business stakeholders to communicate preferred supplier arrangements.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Develop and implement 1-3 year category strategies, supported by execution roadmaps
  • Leverage external best practices to mature the HR Services category
  • Utilise tools like Porters Five Forces and Kraljic to gain a strong understanding of market dynamics and cost drivers
  • Partner with stakeholders to ensure the function sources quality products and supplier services
  • Delve into supplier capabilities, industry, and roadmaps for key products and/or services

About You

  • A strong knowledge and demonstrated experience of procurement roles in HR Services
  • Experience of leading transformational change in procurement and in a matrix environment
  • Ability to deliver to agreed savings and value targets
  • CIPS or EU equivalent desirable
  • Microsoft-Office suite
  • Negotiator capable of delivering great outcomes when leading high value and complex deals

Salary Estimate: £80,000 - £100,000 per annum, depending on experience

About Us

DS Smith is a leading provider of sustainable packaging solutions, paper products, and recycling services in over 30 countries. We're committed to investing in our future across strategic growth enablers within Innovation, Sustainability, and Digital & Data.


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