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Digital Senior Category Manager

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Thames Water

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United Kingdom , Reading

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Purchasing

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Salary:

78000.00 GBP / Year
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Job Description:

As a Digital Senior Category Manager, you should be a commercial expert for the category that you lead. You should be able to utilise this market expertise to develop and deliver strategies, ensuring that Thames is market-leading in their commercial arrangements. This role will support all commercial activity for Cybersecurity and Networks, supporting the delivery of major projects for Digital Turnaround initiatives.

Job Responsibility:

  • Supporting Information Security, Networks and Telecoms Suppliers with all commercial requirements, including project delivery contracts, software renewals and new software sourcing activities
  • Working with stakeholders to provide commercial advice and ensure commercial compliance is embedded across the category
  • Produce category plans for the categories in this space to support pipeline planning and ongoing commercial strategy
  • Responsible for managing a portfolio of suppliers to ensure contracted expectations continue to be improved throughout the contract life cycle and to support these suppliers in delivering additional value to Thames Water
  • Actively lead, develop, and manage end-to-end category strategies for the short, medium, and long term. Identify a pipeline of initiatives to maximise value and outcomes for Thames Water, balancing commercial risk and value opportunities
  • Providing extensive category knowledge and supply market insight to internal stakeholders. Delivering category strategies and sourcing events, providing SME support and identifying/managing category-level risks
  • Becoming the commercial expert for the category enables Thames to quickly adapt to market changes

Requirements:

  • Experience in Influencing Senior Stakeholders to support embedding best practice commercial governance
  • Ability to manage multiple projects within the category, ensuring effective prioritisation of tasks
  • Experience in a digital commercial role, understanding key Digital Commercial Models, including for Software and Project Delivery
  • Have detailed knowledge of the external supply market, including suppliers, trends, innovation, market changes and dynamics that enable the identification of new suppliers of value to Thames Water
  • Have strong engagement skills which allow you to support, influence and constructively challenge stakeholders to deliver the best commercial outcomes for Thames
  • A clear understanding of Category Management principles with a track record of delivering results across several different category areas, building fantastic supplier and stakeholder relationships
  • Ability to lead and provide insight for the business on all aspects of supply market dynamics, regulatory and internal frameworks, suppliers, and technical innovations
  • Be able to identify market insights, trends, opportunities, and risks
  • Manage Categories up to £100m in value with significant strategic risk to the organisation
  • Experience in negotiating with suppliers on all commercial and contractual matters and applying judgment as to what constitutes an acceptable level of contractual risk and supply resilience
What we offer:
  • Annual Leave - 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with the length of service. (Plus bank holidays)
  • Car Allowance - £5,800
  • Annual Bonus
  • Private Medical Health Care
  • Contributory pension – Defined Contribution - Maximum of 12% -2x employee contribution
  • Personal Medical Assessments – Open to all once a year
  • Wider benefits scheme including our benefits hub, which is packed full of offers and information to save you money and support your wellbeing

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
March 02, 2026

Expiration:
March 12, 2026

Work Type:
Hybrid work
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