We are seeking a commercially driven Category Manager to lead our client's procurement strategy across IT, Marketing, and HR . Your goal will be to maximise ROI by sourcing high-value goods and services that align with the long-term roadmap. Key Responsibilities: Collaborate with internal leads to define and deliver medium-to-long-term requirements. Lead the full procurement lifecycle, from RFI/RFQ to final contract execution. Cultivate supplier relationships that prioritise innovation, best practices, and continuous improvement. Negotiate robust contracts that secure best-in-class value while mitigating commercial risk. About You: You are a strategic negotiator with deep expertise in the IT and professional services markets. Proven track record as a Senior Buyer/IT Category Management. CIPS qualification is advantageous. Strong analytical ability to evaluate complex costs and draft airtight supplier agreements. A proactive, "can-do" approach with the ability to manage multiple high-priority projects in a fast-paced, transformative environment. Details: Title: Category Manager Salary: up to £60,000 DOE Location: Aylesbury, (2 days office based) Huntress Search Ltd acts as a Recruitment Agency in relation to all Permanent roles and as a Recruitment Business in relation to all Temporary roles. We practice a diverse and inclusive recruitment process that ensures equal opportunity for all we work with, irrespective of race, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, age or gender. As an organisation, we encourage applications from all backgrounds and will ensure measures are met when required, to allow a fair process throughout. PLEASE NOTE: We can only consider applications from candidates who have the right to work in the UK.
Jun 19, 2026
Full time
We are seeking a commercially driven Category Manager to lead our client's procurement strategy across IT, Marketing, and HR . Your goal will be to maximise ROI by sourcing high-value goods and services that align with the long-term roadmap. Key Responsibilities: Collaborate with internal leads to define and deliver medium-to-long-term requirements. Lead the full procurement lifecycle, from RFI/RFQ to final contract execution. Cultivate supplier relationships that prioritise innovation, best practices, and continuous improvement. Negotiate robust contracts that secure best-in-class value while mitigating commercial risk. About You: You are a strategic negotiator with deep expertise in the IT and professional services markets. Proven track record as a Senior Buyer/IT Category Management. CIPS qualification is advantageous. Strong analytical ability to evaluate complex costs and draft airtight supplier agreements. A proactive, "can-do" approach with the ability to manage multiple high-priority projects in a fast-paced, transformative environment. Details: Title: Category Manager Salary: up to £60,000 DOE Location: Aylesbury, (2 days office based) Huntress Search Ltd acts as a Recruitment Agency in relation to all Permanent roles and as a Recruitment Business in relation to all Temporary roles. We practice a diverse and inclusive recruitment process that ensures equal opportunity for all we work with, irrespective of race, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, age or gender. As an organisation, we encourage applications from all backgrounds and will ensure measures are met when required, to allow a fair process throughout. PLEASE NOTE: We can only consider applications from candidates who have the right to work in the UK.
Job Title: Category Buyer - Marketing Procurement Location: Warwick (remote) Contract: 6 months Rate: 300- 350 per day (umbrella) Join Our Team and Shape the Future of Energy Solutions! Are you passionate about procurement and eager to drive innovative Marketing and Public Relations strategies? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you as a Category Buyer - Marketing Procurement! Reporting to the Category Manager, you will collaborate closely with Senior Category Buyers, contributing to the procurement lifecycle and enhancing our organization's reputation in the market. What You'll Do: Work Independently: Utilize your self-starter mentality to work semi-autonomously, primarily with a US-based team. Your initiative is key! Market Research: Dive into profiling category characteristics and researching supply markets. Your insights will guide our Global and Market Development teams. Manage Tender Events: Deliver significant value by overseeing tender events for essential products and services, ensuring a smooth procurement process. Forward Planning: Identify future requirements and implement robust forecasting strategies to maximize value from procured goods and services. Contract Development: Scope and develop regional contracts that align with customer stakeholders' needs and our strategic objectives. What You'll Bring: Strategic Sourcing Expertise: Your experience in strategic sourcing and category management will be invaluable in driving efficiency. Project Management Acumen: Showcase your ability to manage multiple projects and deliver outstanding results. Negotiation Mastery: Use your strong negotiation skills to achieve high-value outcomes and secure the best agreements for our organization. Commercial Assessment Skills: Build and manage complex commercial assessment models to support informed decision-making. Contract Development Experience: Make recommendations, amend existing contracts, and draft new agreements that align with our strategic goals. Marketing Knowledge: While not essential, a background in marketing or marketing procurement would be a great advantage! Key Skills Required: Proven experience in category management and stakeholder engagement. Strong understanding of contract development processes. Familiarity with innovative Marketing and Public Relations strategies. Experience with Coupa is a plus. Knowledge of the energy/power sector is ideal, especially within a regulatory environment. Why Join Us? Dynamic Work Environment: Enjoy the flexibility of remote work while collaborating with a passionate team. Impactful Role: Play a crucial part in shaping the future of energy solutions while driving value for our organization. Opportunities for Growth: Build relationships and gain experience in a strategic procurement role that enhances your career. If you are ready to take on this exciting challenge and make a difference in the world of energy procurement, we want to hear from you! Apply now and let's shape the future together! Pontoon is an employment consultancy. We put expertise, energy, and enthusiasm into improving everyone's chance of being part of the workplace. We respect and appreciate people of all ethnicities, generations, religious beliefs, sexual orientations, gender identities, and more. We do this by showcasing their talents, skills, and unique experience in an inclusive environment that helps them thrive. If you require reasonable adjustments at any stage, please let us know and we will be happy to support you. We use generative AI tools to support our candidate screening process. This helps us ensure a fair, consistent, and efficient experience for all applicants. Rest assured, all final decisions are made by our hiring team, and your application will be reviewed with care and attention.
Jun 19, 2026
Contractor
Job Title: Category Buyer - Marketing Procurement Location: Warwick (remote) Contract: 6 months Rate: 300- 350 per day (umbrella) Join Our Team and Shape the Future of Energy Solutions! Are you passionate about procurement and eager to drive innovative Marketing and Public Relations strategies? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you as a Category Buyer - Marketing Procurement! Reporting to the Category Manager, you will collaborate closely with Senior Category Buyers, contributing to the procurement lifecycle and enhancing our organization's reputation in the market. What You'll Do: Work Independently: Utilize your self-starter mentality to work semi-autonomously, primarily with a US-based team. Your initiative is key! Market Research: Dive into profiling category characteristics and researching supply markets. Your insights will guide our Global and Market Development teams. Manage Tender Events: Deliver significant value by overseeing tender events for essential products and services, ensuring a smooth procurement process. Forward Planning: Identify future requirements and implement robust forecasting strategies to maximize value from procured goods and services. Contract Development: Scope and develop regional contracts that align with customer stakeholders' needs and our strategic objectives. What You'll Bring: Strategic Sourcing Expertise: Your experience in strategic sourcing and category management will be invaluable in driving efficiency. Project Management Acumen: Showcase your ability to manage multiple projects and deliver outstanding results. Negotiation Mastery: Use your strong negotiation skills to achieve high-value outcomes and secure the best agreements for our organization. Commercial Assessment Skills: Build and manage complex commercial assessment models to support informed decision-making. Contract Development Experience: Make recommendations, amend existing contracts, and draft new agreements that align with our strategic goals. Marketing Knowledge: While not essential, a background in marketing or marketing procurement would be a great advantage! Key Skills Required: Proven experience in category management and stakeholder engagement. Strong understanding of contract development processes. Familiarity with innovative Marketing and Public Relations strategies. Experience with Coupa is a plus. Knowledge of the energy/power sector is ideal, especially within a regulatory environment. Why Join Us? Dynamic Work Environment: Enjoy the flexibility of remote work while collaborating with a passionate team. Impactful Role: Play a crucial part in shaping the future of energy solutions while driving value for our organization. Opportunities for Growth: Build relationships and gain experience in a strategic procurement role that enhances your career. If you are ready to take on this exciting challenge and make a difference in the world of energy procurement, we want to hear from you! Apply now and let's shape the future together! Pontoon is an employment consultancy. We put expertise, energy, and enthusiasm into improving everyone's chance of being part of the workplace. We respect and appreciate people of all ethnicities, generations, religious beliefs, sexual orientations, gender identities, and more. We do this by showcasing their talents, skills, and unique experience in an inclusive environment that helps them thrive. If you require reasonable adjustments at any stage, please let us know and we will be happy to support you. We use generative AI tools to support our candidate screening process. This helps us ensure a fair, consistent, and efficient experience for all applicants. Rest assured, all final decisions are made by our hiring team, and your application will be reviewed with care and attention.
Enterprise Account Exec Existing and New Business. AI Voice Agent QA platform. UK Remote to suit candidate within 3 hours travel of London for Anchor days £100-£120K + Comm- Double basic OTE Value Added Recruitment are looking for an Enterprise Account Executive with 5+ years of experience to own complex, multi-stakeholder enterprise sales cycles end-to-end at this category leader in AI Voice Agent QA. This is a rare opportunity to be an early GTM hire at a rocket-ship seed-stage startup (10X revenue growth since August) selling a product that enterprises genuinely need. What will you be doing? Own a focused book of named enterprise accounts from account planning and outbound through pilots, procurement, close, and expansion. Run technical discovery and demos with CTOs, VPs of AI, contact centre leaders, CISOs, and engineering teams across 6 15 stakeholder deals. Lead structured pilots with signed mutual action plans, clear success criteria, and measurable exit criteria before they start. Navigate enterprise procurement end-to-end: SOC 2, DPAs, MSAs, redlines, and vendor security reviews. Feed tight feedback loops to product and engineering on objections, competitive context, and pilot learnings. Target markets are major MNCs, Health and Banking/Financial Sectors Key Requirements Proven enterprise closing experience with large ACV deals ($1M+ ACVs preferred), long cycles (6+ months), and multi-stakeholder complexity (8+ stakeholders). High agency you build pipeline, develop champions, and push deals forward without waiting for marketing, BDRs, or playbooks. Is effectively a hybrid BDM/AM role. Comfortable selling to and holding conversations with deeply technical buyers (engineering, AI/ML, security teams). Experience navigating enterprise security and compliance procurement (SOC 2, DPAs, MSAs). Startup experience (Seed Series B) you thrive in ambiguity and can iterate fast. Tech stack at company : Voice AI, LLMs, Telephony / WebRTC, STT / TTS, AI Agent Orchestration, CRM (unspecified), SOC 2, AI QA Platform. Previous experience selling AI Voice systems is essential Direct mentorship from founder, who has previously scaled growth and led AI sales initiatives generating hundreds of millions in annual revenue. If you are excited about AI, love building from the ground up, and want to play a defining role in one of the most exciting categories in technology, we'd love to hear from you.
Jun 17, 2026
Full time
Enterprise Account Exec Existing and New Business. AI Voice Agent QA platform. UK Remote to suit candidate within 3 hours travel of London for Anchor days £100-£120K + Comm- Double basic OTE Value Added Recruitment are looking for an Enterprise Account Executive with 5+ years of experience to own complex, multi-stakeholder enterprise sales cycles end-to-end at this category leader in AI Voice Agent QA. This is a rare opportunity to be an early GTM hire at a rocket-ship seed-stage startup (10X revenue growth since August) selling a product that enterprises genuinely need. What will you be doing? Own a focused book of named enterprise accounts from account planning and outbound through pilots, procurement, close, and expansion. Run technical discovery and demos with CTOs, VPs of AI, contact centre leaders, CISOs, and engineering teams across 6 15 stakeholder deals. Lead structured pilots with signed mutual action plans, clear success criteria, and measurable exit criteria before they start. Navigate enterprise procurement end-to-end: SOC 2, DPAs, MSAs, redlines, and vendor security reviews. Feed tight feedback loops to product and engineering on objections, competitive context, and pilot learnings. Target markets are major MNCs, Health and Banking/Financial Sectors Key Requirements Proven enterprise closing experience with large ACV deals ($1M+ ACVs preferred), long cycles (6+ months), and multi-stakeholder complexity (8+ stakeholders). High agency you build pipeline, develop champions, and push deals forward without waiting for marketing, BDRs, or playbooks. Is effectively a hybrid BDM/AM role. Comfortable selling to and holding conversations with deeply technical buyers (engineering, AI/ML, security teams). Experience navigating enterprise security and compliance procurement (SOC 2, DPAs, MSAs). Startup experience (Seed Series B) you thrive in ambiguity and can iterate fast. Tech stack at company : Voice AI, LLMs, Telephony / WebRTC, STT / TTS, AI Agent Orchestration, CRM (unspecified), SOC 2, AI QA Platform. Previous experience selling AI Voice systems is essential Direct mentorship from founder, who has previously scaled growth and led AI sales initiatives generating hundreds of millions in annual revenue. If you are excited about AI, love building from the ground up, and want to play a defining role in one of the most exciting categories in technology, we'd love to hear from you.
