Lead Category Manager

Orsted Asia Pacific; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading renewable energy company is looking for a candidate to develop and execute global category strategies for offshore wind farms and transmission assets. This role involves managing sourcing processes, analyzing market trends, and ensuring compliance with tendering rules. Ideal candidates will have negotiation experience, especially in offshore wind, and excellent communication skills. The position requires strategic thinking and integrity, with travel to the UK and possibly Germany or the US as part of the job.

Qualifications

• Experience managing sourcing processes from strategy drafting to contract signing.
• Negotiation skills with experience in offshore wind or energy.
• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills.
• Strategic and analytical mindset to identify commercial opportunities.
• High integrity and ownership in driving results.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute global category strategies.
• Gather and analyze supply chain intelligence.
• Prepare strategies and sourcing documentation.
• Monitor supplier performance and compliance.
• Engage in end-to-end sourcing activities.

Skills

Sourcing process management

Negotiation

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Job description

Join us in this role where you’ll be responsible for developing, maintaining, and executing global category strategies that fulfill the servicing needs of our offshore wind farms and transmission assets. You will coordinate the execution of sourcing demand in close collaboration with business stakeholders, oversee supplier relationship management activities, and ensure robust governance according to our procurement processes. This position offers a dynamic, fast-paced, and international environment, providing ample opportunities for professional growth while making your mark on the transition to renewable energy.

Welcome to Generation Procurement
You’ll be part of the Offshore Services Procurement team where you, together with your colleagues, will support our offshore wind farms by ensuring timely and competitive contracting of O&M services. Our team is global, with colleagues based in Denmark and the UK, and we work closely with stakeholders across APAC and the Americas. You’ll collaborate with sourcing and contract managers, category managers, and business partners, often organized in projects or at our operational hubs.

As a team, we ’re driven by an open working environment where everyone is encouraged to speak up, seek and provide feedback, actively take initiative, and pursue learning opportunities.

You’ll play an important role in:

• developing, maintaining, and executing global category strategies through ongoing alignment with business stakeholders and regional category teams
• gathering global supply chain intelligence, analyzing market trends, and leveraging competitive insights to create value for the business
• preparing and presenting clear, well-founded strategies and sourcing documentation to support management decision-making
• driving and monitoring supplier performance reviews in accordance with our global Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) framework and supplier segmentation
• coordinating the category sourcing demand pipeline, ensuring compliance with internal and external tendering rules, policies, and governance standards.
• actively engaging in end-to-end sourcing activities up to handing over signed contract packages with complete metadata ready for execution.

To succeed in the role, you:

• have relevant experience managing sourcing processes from strategy drafting to contract signing; experience with monopolistic markets and EU tender law is a plus
• are a seasoned and passionate negotiator, with experience in offshore wind, energy, or transmission assets considered an advantage
• possess excellent verbal and written English communication skills, enabling effective management of key stakeholders, suppliers, and business partners
• are strategic and analytical, able to spot commercial opportunities and focus on bottom-line impact while achieving technical and operational contract solutions
• act with high integrity, take ownership, handle pressure well, proactively ask questions, and seek input beyond your immediate network to drive results.

Maybe you’ve read the above and can see you have some transferable skills, even though they don’t quite match all the points. If you think you can bring something to the team, we still encourage you to apply.

Please note that you’re expected to do some traveling in relation to your work, as you’ll travel three to five times per year to the UK (London, Grimsby, Barrow), one to two times to Germany (Norddeich), and potentially once to the US or APAC regions. Travel may include visits to stakeholders, suppliers, and industry events such as WindEurope and Offshore UK.

Shape the future with us

Shape the future with us
Send your application to us as soon as possible. We’ll be conducting interviews on a continuous basis and reserve the right to take down the advert when we’ve found the right candidate.

As an applicant or employee, you may request reasonable work and position accommodation or adjustments via [e-mail].

Please note that for your application to be taken into consideration, you must submit your application via our online career pages and answer the screening questions relevant for your country. We don't take applications or inquiries from external recruiters or agencies into account for this position.