Job Description

Right across infrastructure, there's a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you're at in your career, with us you'll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.
Where will you be working?
As an organisation, there is little we don't do and plenty to get involved in. Our Group Support roles are vital in making sure we can help over 11,000 people deliver essential infrastructure seamlessly across water, energy, transport and telecom.
Procurement is undergoing an exciting transformation journey, deploying best in class processes, ensuring an innovative, reliable and cost-efficient supply chain that can grow with us to support delivery of the overall M Group Strategy. The Senior Category Manager is a new role in the team.
This is a hybrid role, with travel to Stevenage required 2-4 times a month and travel to meet stakeholders and suppliers as required
Want to come and be a part of it?
What will you be doing?
Join us as a passionate champion of subcontractor procurement, where you'll lead the development and delivery of our subcontract category plan-driving long-term value and building strategic supply chain partnerships across divisions. You'll harness data insight and market knowledge to influence decision making, shape commercial outcomes, and unlock cost efficiencies. From refining procurement practices and tools to embedding ESG principles and supplier innovation, you'll be at the heart of our transformation journey. As a confident collaborator and people leader, you'll manage supplier relationships and guide your team to exceed ambitious targets. Help make M Group the subcontractor's partner of choice.
What you'll bring:

• Minimum 8-10 years' experience in procurement and/or commercial roles
• Experience with subcontract supply chain within infrastructure services
• Strong commercial mindset and analytical skills
• Proven track record of developing and implementing successful category strategies & sourcing practices
• Ability to build relationships across a large stakeholder base, influence and act as an expert across the organisation up to executive level
• Strong leadership skills and prior experience of leading cross-functional or virtual teams
• Strong negotiation and influencing skills, able to obtain consensus around credible, executable solutions
• Experience with complex NEC4 contracting practices

What's in it for you?
We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;

• Matched or contributory pension scheme
• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
• Employee assistance programme
• My Rewards portal, access to 1000's of retail discounts
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
• Reward and recognition scheme

In addition, this role offers;

• Company car (or allowance) and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
• My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme
• Private health care and health care cash plan for you (and your family)
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Recommend a friend - get rewarded for introducing people to us!

About us
We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We're one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.
Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.

• We're responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
• We're open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
• We're together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
• We're ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life

Whether you're a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.
It's an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.
Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.
For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.
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