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Senior Strategic Category Manager (SaaS)

London💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-22 → 2026-09-26

Core

Strategic Category Manager acting as a high-stakes negotiation and client advisory partner to CFOs and Private Equity firms to optimize SaaS spend.

Role type

Senior Strategic Category Manager (SaaS)

Builds

Enterprise sourcing strategies and commercial value for large organizations

Domain

B2B SaaS Procurement / Private Equity

Deliverable

client delivery

Required skills

Strategic sourcing, negotiation expertise, SaaS vendor management, stakeholder management, commercial change delivery, mentoring

Preferred skills

Category experience in technology (IT/SaaS), indirect procurement, procurement consulting

Responsibilities

Accountable for service delivery into a portfolio of strategic accounts; support strategic private-equity relationships to contribute to sales pipeline; work with C-suite to understand technology strategy; manage key SaaS Partner relationships; implement Enterprise sourcing strategies; mentoring junior team members

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership potential

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