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About the Role
World Fuel is seeking an experienced Senior Category Manager – Indirect Procurement to lead strategy, sourcing, and supplier management for key indirect spend categories including HR, Payroll, and Travel. This highly visible role partners with senior leaders across various functions to shape category roadmaps, lead negotiations, drive cost optimization, and deliver long-term business value.
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute category strategies across HR, Payroll, Travel, and other indirect procurement categories.
- Align category plans with business objectives and stakeholder priorities.
- Identify opportunities to reduce costs, improve supplier performance, reduce risk, and create long-term value.
- Conduct market analysis, benchmarking, and supplier assessments.
- Lead complex sourcing initiatives from strategy development through supplier selection and contract award.
- Develop sourcing methodologies, evaluation frameworks, and negotiation strategies.
- Lead commercial and contractual negotiations with global suppliers.
- Challenge existing commercial arrangements and identify opportunities for improved service, pricing, and contractual protections.
- Deliver measurable savings, value creation, and operational improvements.
- Build trusted relationships with senior leaders across HR, Finance, Legal, Technology, and business operations.
- Act as a strategic advisor on procurement decisions and supplier strategies.
- Present recommendations, business cases, and sourcing outcomes to senior stakeholders.
- Influence decision-making through data-driven commercial insights.
- Oversee the full contract lifecycle, including renewals, amendments, reviews, and terminations.
- Establish supplier performance expectations, KPIs, and governance frameworks.
- Drive supplier innovation, continuous improvement, and value-generation initiatives.
- Manage supplier relationships to maximize business outcomes and mitigate risk.
- Lead procurement improvement initiatives focused on automation, process optimization, analytics, and digital transformation.
- Use spend analysis, benchmarking, cost modelling, and total cost of ownership methodologies to identify opportunities.
- Contribute to procurement policy development, governance improvements, and operating model enhancements.
- Support the evolution of procurement capabilities, tools, reporting, and data management.
- Coach, mentor, and develop procurement team members.
- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Support capability building across the broader procurement organization.
Requirements
- Degree qualified or equivalent professional experience.
- 8+ years of strategic procurement and category management experience.
- Strong experience managing indirect procurement categories within a multinational or global organization.
- Experience leading procurement strategies across HR, Payroll, Travel, Professional Services, or related indirect spend categories.
- Demonstrated success delivering strategic sourcing initiatives and measurable cost savings.
- Strong commercial negotiation and contract management experience.
- Experience influencing senior stakeholders and leading cross-functional initiatives.
- Strong financial analysis, business case development, and commercial evaluation skills.
- International procurement experience.
- Experience operating within a global matrix organization.
- Knowledge of Oracle Fusion or similar ERP platforms.
- Experience supporting procurement transformation, digitization, or automation initiatives.
- Exposure to SOX controls, internal audit processes, or procurement governance programs.
Skills
- Strategic Sourcing
- Negotiation
- Contract Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Cost Optimization
- Market Analysis
- Supplier Management
- Financial Analysis
- Business Case Development
- Commercial Evaluation
- Procurement Transformation
- Process Optimization
- Data Analysis
- ERP Platforms
Location
- London, UK
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
- 8+ years
Education Level
- Degree qualified or equivalent professional experience
About the Company
- At World Fuel, our employees are the key to our global success. We are industry leaders due to the innumerable talents of our approximately 5000 strong professional team. Our people thrive in an entrepreneurial and culturally-diverse environment, where innovative thinking, collaboration and efficient execution are highly valued. Our high-performance culture is what allows us to drive sustained growth. Stronger together, we promote an environment where individuals can thrive.
Equal Opportunity
- Please note that by submitting an employment application you consent to World Fuel Services processing your information for this role and potentially for future employment opportunities, in accordance with applicable laws. To learn more about how we protect and/or process personal information, please visit the WFS Privacy Center at: https://www.wfscorp.com/en/privacy-center.