Category Manager – Technology

Flutter Entertainment

Technology Category Manager at Flutter responsible for global procurement strategies and business partnerships with key technology suppliers. Leading category management for optimal performance and risk management.

Posted 4/26/2026full-timeLeeds • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Flutter

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Establish strong relationships with Senior level internal Technology stakeholders; build a strong understanding of strategic business direction, requirements and priorities and translate that across key Technology supplier partners and spend categories.
Develop global category sourcing strategies and spend management plans to deliver against business objectives for Technology.
Drive Flutters SRPM Minimum Standards programme across our global Technology supplier base to manage both Performance and Risk effectively.
Drive value and synergy savings via managing negotiations on a global basis.
Continually look for performance and process enhancements both internally in procurement and with our suppliers.
Lead business reviews with top Tier global IT suppliers and stakeholders to review vendor performance, risk management, future opportunities, and/or challenges and oversee implementation of actions following these.
Act as a "trusted advisor" to Senior Flutter IT leaders in terms of supplier performance and spend management.
Evaluate supplier core competencies and competitive positioning using industry cost models and bench-marking analysis from industry sources.
Provide IT leadership with key category insights and trends using industry reports such as those developed by Gartner.
Identify sourcing opportunities by leveraging spend analysis and engaging with stakeholders to consolidate requirements over categories, suppliers and geographies.
Manage the fundamentals of Flutters Global sourcing and supplier engagement activities including RFx, spend analysis, contract analysis, bid evaluation, negotiations, and supplier consolidation.
Provide guidance to internal stakeholders on procurement strategies and maintaining procurement ethics and governance in accordance with Flutter's global policies.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Extensive experience in Technology procurement in a Global Sourcing role, with a multinational corporation and global contracts.
The ability to manage across all levels on a strategic and operational basis in a large complex organisation.
In-depth experience in best-in-class procurement practices (category management, benchmarking, RFX, end to end contract management, etc.)
Strong negotiator with proven experience in setting negotiation strategies and conducting negotiations.
Strong experience assessing risk and concisely explaining complex issues to key business owners.
Extremely customer-focused and takes the time to understand the needs of the business.
Analytical skills including the ability to quickly analyse, distil and draw conclusions on large amounts of disparate data.
Ability to manage multiple simultaneous projects.
Passionate self-starter with the highest level of integrity and ethics.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

global sourcingspend managementcategory managementbenchmarkingRFXcontract managementnegotiation strategiesrisk assessmentdata analysissupplier consolidation

Soft Skills

relationship buildingstrategic thinkingcustomer focusanalytical skillsproject managementintegrityethicscommunicationleadershipproblem-solving