Category Group Manager – 13600

Comxps Ltd; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology consulting firm is seeking candidates for a role focusing on defence supply chain management. The ideal candidate will have significant experience with military platforms, procurement, and category management. Strong leadership skills and an understanding of the Defence Industry are essential. This role offers part-time onsite work in Bristol, with competitive compensation details to be confirmed upon application.

Qualifications

• Experience in military platforms, equipment and systems procurement and support.
• Background in category management is essential.
• Understand life support, cost models, and supply chain.

Responsibilities

• Engage with stakeholders to build requirements.
• Deliver benefits through category management interventions.
• Facilitate workshops for stakeholders.

Skills

Understanding of the Defence Industry

Track record of delivering benefits

Proven leadership experience

Strong commercial awareness

Tools

Microsoft applications

PowerPoint

Job description

Salary

£To be confirmed on application (our client has asked for this not to be advertised).

Location

London or Abbey Wood, Bristol - 2 days per week onsite – Bristol is preference. Minimal travel, will be occasional travel between offices to other sites.

Contract Details

Contracting Authority: Government Client.
Contract Length: 31st March 2026 (End of Financial year) – with potential to extend.
Clearance: SC.

Essential

Looking for candidates within Equipment space, defence, defence supply chain, engineering categories.

Essential (Experience)

We are ideally looking for candidates with experience in military platforms, equipment and systems procurement and support. Maritime, aerospace or vehicle manufacture & support experience.

Skills Required

• Understanding of the Defence Industry, supply chains and/or deep knowledge in related categories (e.g., autonomous systems, weapons systems, sense, decide & communicating systems, power propulsion & auxiliary systems) – would be an advantage.
• Track record of delivering benefits (full range of non-financial and financial benefits) through category management interventions within a complex project/programme delivery environment.
• Credible and assured to command the confidence of a range of senior stakeholders.
• Proven leadership experience.
• Ability to think strategically, act decisively and respond quickly.
• Strong commercial awareness including an expert understanding of the commercial lifecycle.

Essential (Category Management Experience)

• Wide experience on category management.
• Looking for category management background.
• Worked with deep category knowledge/expertise.
• Previously worked with stakeholders to build the requirements.
• Stakeholder engagement.
• An understanding/previous experience working in a technical and engineering environment.
• Worked for defence, oil and gas, engineering industries.
• Understanding on life support, cost models, availability and resilience, supply chain is key.
• Technologies/systems – Microsoft applications, PowerPoint.
• Experience of facilitating workshops.
• Worked on multi million – 5bn+ categories – large scale categories.
• Good delivery focus.

Desirables

• Having worked in a high change environment would be ideal.
• Experience of defence supply chain.
• Nice to have – MCIPS – not strongly required.

Our dedicated team would be pleased to discuss in more detail how we may be able to help.