Overview

Senior Category Manager role at Hargreaves Lansdown. This range is provided by Hargreaves Lansdown. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

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About the role

HL is the UK's leading wealth provider, investing in digital platform transformation, operational efficiency and improved client journeys and product offerings. You will work with existing and new suppliers to drive change and innovation, delivering value by challenging the business to create the category plan and execute sourcing activities, then managing suppliers to secure value and exploit opportunities for cost savings or innovation.

The Senior Category Manager will lead full life cycle responsibilities within a supplier category—from establishing the category plan and aligning with business/technology roadmaps, market evaluation and negotiation, through to contract signature and value realization. This includes onboarding, ongoing supplier management and offboarding.

What you'll be doing

As a Senior Category Manager, you will support procurement activities across the defined business area, covering the full supplier life cycle from selection and commercial negotiation to contracting and in-life management. You will own the strategy and engagement for procurement activities, with a focus on delivering sustainable savings, managing risk, and governance aligned to our ESG plan.

The focus area for this role is Professional Services:

• Category Management - establish and maintain category plans aligned with business and technology strategy to create commercial value, ensure resilience, manage risk, and meet technology roadmaps and demand commitments.
• Sourcing - lead end-to-end sourcing activities, including market assessments, complex supplier negotiations and contract execution; ensure onboarding through due diligence and delivery of commercial value; manage price protections and post-contract value; protect HL brand.
• Supplier Management - establish governance to manage relationships and contract obligations, measure performance and risk, deliver commercial value and protect HL brand.

About you

• Experience working with senior stakeholders to build category plans, drive costs savings, supplier resilience and governance to mitigate risk
• Excellent negotiation and problem-solving skills with experience in leading high-value, complex negotiations
• Ability to challenge the business with new ways of working, technology and processes to secure sustainable savings
• Comfortable coaching Contract Managers to enhance commercial value across the supplier life cycle
• Experience in a technology business, knowledge of cloud, AI and automation technology, and ability to identify and mitigate risks
• Credibility across various technologies, as well as curiosity and the ability to influence stakeholders
• Knowledge of regulatory landscape in a Financial Services environment
• Understanding of EBA Guidelines on Outsourcing
• Good data analytics skills to understand financial, economic, risk and contractual data and present clearly

The interview process will be a two-stage interview with technical questions and a presentation.

Working Schedule

The Senior Category Manager role is permanent, full-time, 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday. Office based in Bristol, hybrid working available with 1-2 days in the office per week.

Why us?

HL is the UK's number 1 investment platform for private investors, based in Bristol. We support learning, dynamic teams, and a culture of service, quality, innovation and opportunity.

What's on offer?

• Discretionary annual bonus and annual pay review
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays and Christmas closure, option to purchase 5 additional days
• Flexible working options, including hybrid
• Enhanced parental leave
• Pension up to 11% employer contribution
• Income Protection and Life insurance
• Private medical insurance
• Health care cash plans and health screening
• Support services including mental health counselling and remote GP
• Wellhub fitness and wellbeing resources
• Travel schemes with bike storage and shower facilities
• In-house barista and deli
• Two paid volunteering days per year

Note: some benefits available during annual benefits window in November.

Hargreaves Lansdown is an inclusive employer that values diversity in its workforce. We encourage applications from all individuals without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.

This role may also be available on a flexible working or part-time basis — please ask the Recruitment & Onboarding team for more information.

Please note, we are unable to provide employment sponsorship to candidates.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Finance
• Industries: Professional Services