Procurement Manager - Marketing Content Production in Slough

Step into a role where you can make a meaningful impact on a truly global scale. We’re looking for a motivated, organised, and forward-thinking Category Manager to help shape and elevate our procurement agenda. In this position, you’ll lead procurement activities for a defined area of our global category, primarily focused on Content Production and Medical Marketing, working closely with the Global Category Lead to drive sustainable, value-led strategies. You’ll take ownership of a diverse portfolio spanning 68 countries and more than 10 strategic suppliers, nurturing a high-performing ecosystem that fuels innovation, unlocks new capabilities, and supports business growth.

With a strong blend of autonomy and collaboration, you’ll guide supplier performance, commercial governance, and price efficiency, ensuring the best outcomes across cost, quality, service, innovation, and speed to market. This role offers the opportunity to partner with regional procurement teams, lead strategic initiatives, and champion new ways of working. As a key change agent, you’ll help embed sustainable procurement practices across the organisation while delivering year-on-year value through thoughtful sourcing, supplier-led innovation, and strategic negotiation.

Responsibilities

• Own and manage the category sub section end to end, consolidating spend and delivering a holistic, value led category strategy in partnership with the business.
• Drive sustainable value across cost, net working capital, quality, service, innovation and risk through effective category planning and stakeholder collaboration.
• Design and execute sourcing and supplier strategies that leverage global scale, ensure supply resilience and create competitive advantage.
• Lead strategic supplier relationships and commercial frameworks, ensuring consistent performance, continuous improvement and preferred customer positioning.
• Monitor market trends and emerging innovations, translating insights into actionable opportunities for the category.
• Embed sustainability, DE&I and responsible sourcing objectives into category strategies and supplier engagements.
• Govern category performance through robust metrics, risk management, commercial oversight and timely, transparent reporting.

Qualifications

• Degree qualified (bachelor's or equivalent) in Marketing, Finance, Business or other relevant discipline; specialisation or professional experience in Procurement or Marketing would be preferred.
• Significant work experience (typically 7+ years) in indirect procurement (preferably marketing procurement), marketing operations, or agency management within global organisations or creative agency environments.
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional sourcing and commercial projects in complex, matrixed environments.
• Strong understanding of the elements of creative agency pricing/operations and how to optimise it for value, performance and impact.
• Proven capability in complex negotiations supported by effective interpersonal, influencing and relationship-building skills.
• Strong analytical capability, with the ability to interpret data, assess supplier performance, and present clear, evidence-based recommendations.
• High level of proficiency in English, both written and verbal, for internal communication and commercial negotiations.
• Knowledge of other languages is beneficial.
• Communicates clearly, concisely and in a structured manner, both verbally and in writing.