Category Manager

Category Manager

£44,000-£47,600

Hybrid (1 day onsite min)

South West of Scotland




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.







Main responsibilities:

• 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.
• Manage tendering, contract negotiation, and supplier relationships in line with public sector legislation and best practice.
• Identify procurement risks, challenge poor practice, and ensure adherence to procurement policies and procedures.
• Deliver savings, efficiency improvements, and sustainable procurement outcomes through effective stakeholder and market engagement.
• Lead, support, and develop procurement staff and colleagues with delegated procurement responsibilities while promoting collaborative and positive working practices.

Qualifications/Experience:

• Ideally Level 5 or 6 CIPS Qualified
• Public Sector procurement experience needed (can be a mix of public and private)
• Ideally have experience of managing a team or running a successful procurement category
• 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
• Ability to develop and implement appropriate supplier relationship and development strategies
• Ability to strategically manage contracts

Please apply if interested or contact Emma Ritchie on 07488885327 or at




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 an equal opportunities employer. Job suitability is assessed on merit in accordance with the individual's skills, qualifications and abilities to perform the relevant duties required in a particular role.

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 an equal opportunities employer. Job suitability is assessed on merit in accordance with the individual's skills, qualifications and abilities to perform the relevant duties required in a particular role.