Procurement Category Manager - Marketing and Corporate Services

Job Overview

Join ASOS.com's Marketing & Corporate Services Procurement Team to oversee various spend categories, collaborating with stakeholders company-wide to enhance commercial value, mitigate risks, and align with strategic goals. This role offers a dynamic environment suited for advancing procurement expertise, particularly within diverse marketing and corporate service segments at a leading global online retailer.

Key Responsibilities

• Formulate and implement strategic category plans for Marketing and Corporate Services that use market insights, supplier intelligence, and a strong grasp of business needs to optimize expenditure and outcomes.
• Independently manage a diverse array of strategic and high-value procurement projects spanning multiple categories.
• Balance and prioritize procurement tasks across several projects concurrently while staying aligned with the organization’s shifting priorities.
• Cultivate and maintain influential relationships with stakeholders, including those at Executive and C-suite levels, offering expert procurement advice and commercial insight.
• Serve as a domain expert in Marketing and Corporate Services procurement by providing up-to-date market and supplier analysis and seizing commercial opportunities.
• Strengthen partnerships with key suppliers to foster innovation, value creation, and ongoing enhancements.
• Identify and generate savings, cost avoidance, and value-adding opportunities, with clear reporting on outcomes and business impact.
• Design and apply pragmatic sourcing methods that align with company requirements, risk tolerance, project complexity, and stakeholder capabilities.
• Oversee supplier and commercial risk, pinpoint potential vulnerabilities, and enact suitable mitigation approaches.
• Support supplier performance evaluation processes to ensure adherence to contracts, service standards, and organizational goals.
• Champion Diversity, Equity & Inclusion initiatives within the team and across procurement activities.

Work Culture

Our hybrid work policy encourages presence in the office at least three days weekly to enhance collaboration, accelerate decisions, and nurture a strong cultural environment for growth and innovation.

Candidate Profile

• Possess experience in fast-paced procurement settings managing multiple competing priorities with autonomy and effective workload prioritization.
• Proven expertise in category management across a broad spectrum of marketing and corporate service areas, including agencies, media, creative services, professional services, people management, facilities, and business support.
• Skilled in tailoring procurement rigor and resource allocation depending on project scale, risk, and stakeholder demands while maintaining engagement and support.
• Successful history in developing and executing category strategies that yield commercial benefit, operational efficiencies, innovations, and risk reduction.
• Experienced in leading complex sourcing events, negotiations, and projects through to contract finalization within tight deadlines.
• In-depth knowledge of procurement systems, governance, policies, and a proactive stance toward continuous process improvements.
• Adaptable to rapid business changes, with strong prioritization capabilities.
• Excellent problem-solving aptitude managing simultaneous complex challenges while collaborating across functions.
• Pragmatic approach with the ability to influence stakeholders constructively without relying on authority.
• Superior communication skills, adept at building trust and credibility across all organizational levels.
• Expert supplier relationship management and negotiation skills, fostering partnerships that deliver concrete business value.
• Strong analytical, commercial, administrative, and presentation capabilities to convert data into strategic insights.
• Independent and self-driven with an ability to keep teams and leadership well-informed.
• Committed to ongoing learning, market trend awareness, and confident in challenging established practices to drive improvements.