Procurement Category Manager - Professional Services

What's the role?

As Category Manager, you will be responsible for managing all indirect procurement activities, with a specific focus on Marketing, HR Services, IT, Consulting, and Operating Supplies categories. You will play a pivotal role in driving cost efficiencies, ensuring supplier performance, and delivering best‑in‑class service to internal stakeholders. In addition, you will be leading projects and fostering a high‑performing, collaborative environment.

• Lead sourcing strategies for indirect categories (e.g., HR, Marketing, IT)
• Deliver value through cost savings, innovation, and risk mitigation
• Manage end‑to‑end sourcing (RFPs, supplier selection, negotiation)
• Maintain and improve supplier relationships and performance
• Track spend and identify cost optimization opportunities
• Monitor procurement KPIs and drive continuous improvement
• Partner with internal stakeholders to align procurement with business needs
• Support regional/global procurement initiatives in local markets
• Ensure compliance and support process/digital improvements
• Act as a trusted advisor to internal stakeholders, ensuring procurement initiatives align with business needs and collaborating with internal departments
• Proactively inform management and the wider organisation of spend, influencing and promoting strategic sourcing and optimizing spend, while providing stakeholders with appropriate assistance to ensure suppliers are effective in daily operational procurement services
• Review and ensure compliance, continuously improving operational efficiencies, including the development and implementation of digital sourcing models to processes
• Collaborate closely with the Procurement Operations team to ensure seamless execution, alignment, and continuous improvement of sourcing strategies
• Engage with Global or Regional teams and effectively implement projects in designated markets

• Bachelor’s degree in any field
• Previous procurement experience, ideally with indirect categories and services
• Strong negotiation, contract management and supplier performance management skills
• Ability to develop and implement category strategies that drive value creation for the organization
• Proficiency in procurement tools (e.g., SAP, Coupa) and Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint) is essential
• Detail‑oriented problem‑solving skills
• Communication skills with a proven ability to explain complex topics clearly to a wide variety of audiences
• Proven interpersonal skills to work effectively and collaboratively within a team, cross‑functionally, and with various stakeholder groups
• Desire for an international career with international mobility

• Genuine career advancement (more than 80% of all leadership roles are filled internally)
• 6% employer pension contributions
• Private Health Insurance and Employee Assistance Programme
• 33 days’ holiday (inc. Bank Holidays) plus the ability to purchase 5 days more annually
• Paid leave to work on charitable projects
• Hilti Benefits Box, a reward platform offering a cycle‑to‑work scheme and shopping and lifestyle discounts/cashback
• Different ways to work flexibly, including working from home and compressed hours
• Employee resource groups focused on gender, mental health, race, disability, LGBTQ+ and sustainability topics
• Trips to locations such as Milan, New York and global HQ for high performers across all teams
• Our Regional Head Office is based at Circle Square in Central Manchester, within a short walk from Oxford Rd train station and St Peter’s Square tram stop. We offer a hybrid working pattern between the office and home and various flexible working arrangements. Feel free to discuss what flexibility means to you during your interview.

Hilti is a global leader in construction innovation, with more than 34,000 team members across 120 countries. Guided by our purpose, Making Construction Better, we’re driven to keep learning, growing, and finding new ways to make a lasting impact. Here, you’ll be empowered to use your strengths, work with a global and inclusive team, and take on meaningful challenges. At Hilti, you’ll have the chance to make your ideas, achievements, and growth real through purpose, passion, and teamwork.

At Hilti, inclusion is a key focus in how we work, lead, and grow together. We are committed to embracing diversity of thought and creating an environment that is inclusive of everyone, everywhere. We continuously strive to ensure every voice is valued and every team member feels empowered to contribute. By building on this foundation, we strengthen our teams, our innovation, and our impact, making construction better together.

• We are an equal‑opportunity employer and value the contributions of all our team members regardless of sex, gender identity or expression, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, age, religion or family status.