Manager, Category Management

National Grid•Brooklyn, NY

20h•Hybrid

About The Position

The US MRO, Logistics & Investment Recovery Category Manager develops and implements category strategies and manages sourcing delivery across a US and UK portfolio. The portfolio covers Maintenance, Repair and Operations (MRO), Logistics, and Investment Recovery. MRO categories include PPE, tools, equipment, workwear, industrial gases, and catalog management; Logistics includes warehousing, freight, parcels, and international logistics services; and Investment Recovery involves responsible resale, reuse, recycling, or other recovery of value from surplus and end-of-life materials and assets. Based in the US, this hybrid role leads a team operating across both regions. It provides commercial direction and assurance, builds a collaborative cross-regional team, and partners with operational stakeholders and strategic suppliers to improve value, service, resilience, compliance, and sustainability. The role reports to the Head of Category & Procurement Business Partner for FM & Support Services.

Requirements

Significant procurement experience, with a strong record of developing and implementing category strategies and leading complex sourcing portfolios.
Demonstrable category management experience across MRO, Logistics, Investment Recovery, operational products, warehousing, freight, or comparable supply-chain categories.
Understanding of MRO supply markets, including tools, equipment, PPE, workwear, industrial gases, catalogs, tail spend, and supplier or contract consolidation.
Understanding of logistics operating models and commercial arrangements across warehousing, transportation, freight, parcels, and international movements.
Understanding of Investment Recovery principles, including value recovery, resale, reuse, recycling, responsible disposal, and associated control requirements.
Experience leading and developing geographically dispersed or cross-regional teams, including recruitment, onboarding, coaching, and capability development.
Strong program and portfolio-management capability, including experience managing multiple sourcing activities, dependencies, and governance requirements.
Commercial expertise across sourcing strategy, tender design, evaluation, negotiation, contracting, supplier performance, and value realization.
Strong analytical capability to translate spend, demand, item, market, and supplier data into category choices and actionable recommendations.
Ability to identify and manage supply-chain, service-continuity, commercial, compliance, operational, and delivery risks across US and UK contexts.
Confident senior-stakeholder management and influencing skills, including the ability to challenge constructively and secure decisions.
Ability to operate effectively across time zones and organizational boundaries, coordinating Legal, Finance, business stakeholders, and specialist Procurement teams.
Degree-level education, a relevant professional qualification such as CIPS, or equivalent experience.
Ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

Relevant US procurement or supply-management accreditation.

Responsibilities

Own the development, approval, implementation, and refresh of category strategies across the assigned US and UK MRO, Logistics, and Investment Recovery portfolio.
Build category plans that reflect regional requirements and identify opportunities for cross-regional aggregation, standardization, contract consolidation, and transfer of best practice.
Define category scope, demand profiles, supply-market dynamics, commercial opportunities, risks, and implementation roadmaps using spend, market, and supplier intelligence.
For MRO, improve spend visibility, rationalize specifications and ranges, consolidate fragmented contracts and suppliers, and strengthen compliant buying channels and catalog management.
For Logistics, develop strategies across warehousing, freight, parcels, and international logistics to support end-to-end delivery models, service continuity, and operational performance.
For Investment Recovery, establish commercially and environmentally responsible routes to maximize recovery value from surplus, scrap, and end-of-life equipment and materials.
Translate category strategies into prioritized and resourced sourcing and contract-management plans with clear outcomes, milestones, governance, and ownership.
Lead the sourcing delivery portfolio, ensuring activities are prioritized, resourced, and delivered in accordance with relevant US and UK governance, policies, and regulatory requirements.
Provide direction and assurance across sourcing strategy, market engagement, tendering, evaluation, negotiation, approval, contracting, and award.
Review and assure key sourcing outputs, including specifications, evaluation methods, commercial models, contractual positions, and recommendations.
Manage cross-regional dependencies, risks, issues, and stakeholder decisions, intervening and escalating when required to protect outcomes and timescales.
Ensure effective handover into mobilization and contract management, with clear obligations, performance measures, governance, and value-realization plans.
Lead strategic supplier relationships to improve performance, resilience, innovation, continuous improvement, and responsible supply-chain outcomes.
Lead, motivate, and develop a geographically dispersed US and UK team, establishing accountability, connected ways of working, and delivery discipline.
Own recruitment and onboarding for team vacancies and provide regular coaching, feedback, capability development, and succession support.
Act as a senior Procurement partner to operational and business stakeholders across both regions, providing commercial insight, recommendations, and delivery updates.