Senior Category Strategy Manager
Flutter EntertainmentJob Title: Senior Category Strategy Manager
Location: Leeds/London/Dublin
Reporting to: Lead Category Strategy Manager
Contract type: Permanent
Are you a strategic procurement professional who thrives on driving transformation at scale? We're looking for a Senior Category Strategy Manager to shape how Flutter manages third-party spend across key brands and regions. This isn't just about cost savings—it's about becoming a trusted strategic advisor to senior leadership, designing innovative sourcing strategies that balance value creation, risk mitigation, and supply assurance. If you're energized by the challenge of influencing at Executive and Leadership Team level, translating complex market dynamics into actionable strategies, and demonstrating procurement's value as a true business partner in a fast-paced, global organization, this role offers the platform to make a significant impact.
The team
The Procurement function in Flutter is responsible for the governance of external third-party supplier spend of over $5bn per annum, across the various business units. Business unit Owners are supported, globally, in the management of this spend, by Sourcing teams based in each of the four business units and by wider Procurement Services teams (which help to manage supplier risk, key systems, contract management and grow strategic partnerships). To ensure a cohesive, co-ordinated and sustainable approach to supplier selection, usage and management, across the Group, Flutter also has a Group Category Strategy team, led by the Lead Category Strategy Manager.
The Category Strategy Team uses a standardised framework, to align a business unit’s Sourcing and Supplier needs, enabling delivery of its long-term strategic goals. This approach allows Procurement to work pro-actively, enabling sustainable cost savings, supplier partnerships to be grown with identified critical suppliers and pre-planning of required supplier risk mitigations
Role Overview
The Senior Category Strategy Manager is a strategic role within this team, responsible for using the approved Framework, to lead the creation, implementation and ongoing review/enhancement of sourcing and supplier strategies, for key business areas, within an assigned brand/region.
The role involves strong partnerships with the Sourcing, Supplier Risk, Supplier Management & Business and Market Intelligence team associated to the assigned brand/region and close collaboration with Global teams, to ensure alignment of brand strategies with global business goals and market dynamics. The ability to influence at Brand Director and LT level is critical to this role to achieve co-ordination of projects and strategies.
Leading on category strategy design and development, savings targets development and project management across the assigned Brand/Region will be a vital aspect of this role. It requires strong influencing and organisational skills to gain sourcing and supplier value for the assigned brand/region and to demonstrate the value of Procurement as a strategic business partner.
What you’ll do
Establish strong relationships with the assigned brand/region Xco and Divisional LT level, internal business stakeholders; building a strong understanding of the brand/regions strategic business direction, requirements and priorities and combining that with BI to build category strategies to drive effective management of Flutters 3rd party spend.
Collaborate with brand/regional Sourcing teams to develop and implement comprehensive sourcing strategies for key spend categories to achieve cost reductions, supply assurance, innovation and value creation.
Support on-going review of strategies with stakeholders and maintain strategy packs and socialisation of target delivery / updates with global procurement colleagues.
Partner our PBMI team to conduct market analysis, supplier benchmarking and spend analysis to inform category strategies.
Drive initiatives to achieve cost savings targets, including leveraging economies of scale, optimising sourcing channels, utilising our Sourcing tools such as Coupa and SIM.ON.
Align with our Supplier Management and Risk teams to identify critical suppliers and support strategies for risk mitigation, for local/regional partnerships and core suppliers for key categories for acquisitions.
Act as a “trusted advisor” to Senior Flutter Brand leaders in terms of category strategy and spend management.
How you’ll do it
Significant experience of strategic sourcing/risk/supplier management role, ideally within a multinational corporation.
Proven ability to capture, prepare and deliver Category Strategies to ExCo and key internal leaders.
The ability to manage up and down the chain in a large complex organisation.
In-depth knowledge/experience in best-in-class procurement practices (category management, spend and data analytics, bench-marking, RFX, end to end contract management, etc.).
Excellent interpersonal and stakeholder influencing skills.
Strong experience assessing opportunity and concisely explaining complex issues to key business owners.
Extremely customer-focused and takes the time to understand the needs of the business.
Experienced in working in a large, global, federal organisation.
Strong analytical skills including the ability to quickly analyse, distil and draw conclusions on large amounts of disparate data and lead a team specialising in this space.
Passionate self-starter with the highest level of integrity and ethics.
What’s in it for you
We are a flexible employer; whether you have personal commitments or a hobby that brings you joy, we want you to bring your best self to work and feel empowered to do so. We also like to share our success; after all you make it happen. We have an excellent benefits package that can be personalised to you:
Bonus scheme
Uncapped holiday allowance
Enhanced pension scheme
Private healthcare
Life assurance
Income protection
Hybrid working
£/€1,000 annual self-development learning fund
Invest via the Flutters Sharesave Scheme
Paid volunteering days
Enhanced parental leave
Wellbeing fund (£/€250 a year)
Recognition programs
Electric car scheme, gym membership, discounts, vouchers and much more!
About Flutter
We are a world leader in online sports betting and iGaming, with a market leading position in the US and across the world.
We have an unparalleled portfolio of the most innovative, diverse and distinctive brands including FanDuel, Sky Betting & Gaming, Sportsbet, PokerStars, Paddy Power, Sisal, tombola, Betfair, MaxBet, Junglee Games and Adjarabet.
With our global scale and challenger attitude, through which we excite and entertain our customers, in a safe and sustainable way. Using our collective power, the Flutter Edge, we aim to disrupt the sector, learning from the past to create a better future for our customers, colleagues and communities.
Equal opportunities
At Flutter, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We strongly encourage people from all backgrounds, ways of thinking, and working to apply.
We are committed to including everyone regardless of their race, disability, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, and religion. Everyone brings different perspectives and experiences; you don’t have to meet all the requirements listed to apply for this role.