Global Catergory Manager - Real Estate & Facilities Management - CASTROL

Job Family Group: Procurement & Supply Chain Management Group Job Description: Role Synopsis The Category Manager provides category leadership for key sub-categories of spend in support of their global category. They undertake category management and global supplier relationship management, driving end-to-end spend management to mitigate supply chain risk and improve value delivery, including sustainability, within their category. They do this through collaborating across and beyond procurement, including with regional, business, and cross-functional resources. They know their categories intimately and support development of innovative strategies which deliver business objectives and strong category guidance which ensures efficient end to end category execution. They work with regional and Capability Centre resources for optimal, compliant, and competitive procurement outcomes, collaborating across and beyond procurement. Problem solvers with good commercial acumen, they create solutions to category challenges, they cultivate senior collaborator relationships and work with businesses to understand their evolving needs alongside developing deep insights into supply markets, including disruptors and technological advances. They bring value through orchestrating development of transformational strategies in support of Castrol’s strategy, collaborating cross-functionally to realize identified value and working with delivery teams to ensure that their global strategies are driven locally. The RE/FM Category Manager leads the development and execution of category strategies across Real Estate and Facilities Management, ensuring commercial value, operational continuity, supplier performance, and compliance with procurement and risk standards. This role manages a diverse supplier base supporting property operations, workplace services, maintenance, facilities projects and outsourced services across multiple offices in more than 40 countries. Develop, own, and continuously improve the RE/FM category strategy , covering areas such as workplace services, facilities maintenance, property management, utilities, repairs, and capital works. Analyse category spend, demand patterns, cost drivers, and supplier market dynamics to find opportunities for value creation, standardisation, and cost optimisation. Key Accountabilities Category Strategy leadership: Collaborate to develop creative category strategies that address business needs, both globally and regionally, supply chain risk and sustainability. Analyze market factors to inform strategy excellence, remaining attuned to market dynamics, balancing needs with proactive transformational strategies. Category excellence: Data led management of end-to-end category performance by working with the organization to understand demand and ensure strategies that can be accomplished effectively across teams. • Skillfully navigates Castrol’s multifaceted operational frameworks, guaranteeing consistent strategy delivery and uninterrupted supply flow to make procurement easier for suppliers and collaborators to work with. • Consider regional factors like laws, taxes, and market conditions in category management planning. • Cultivates passionate partnerships and robust supplier relationships to navigate business challenges and unlock triple bottom line (people, profit & planet) value Transformation and Change Management: Implement transformation initiatives, which deliver incremental business value. Ensure supplier performance, in a dynamic business environment, and implement change across diverse collaborator landscapes. • Leverage digital solutions to drive innovation, enhancing efficiency, effectiveness and value creation • Partner with internal field teams to drive category excellence • Use influencing, storytelling and communication to encourage adoption Team integration: Work within a team of category managers, embracing culture of collaboration, excellence, and continuous improvement. Acts as an SME and advocate for their category, sharing category knowledge across teams to ensure business needs are met. • Builds category knowledge across the wider procurement organization to ensure strategy execution • Develops their technical capabilities in order to deliver category operational excellence • Embraces accelerator skills; curiosity in external markets, innovation and technological disruption, digital fluency, data-driven insights, and strong collaboration with both suppliers and stakeholders • Embraces an environment of psychological safety as a foundation for collaborative learning, ideation and innovation Supplier & Stakeholder Management: Uses storytelling to communicate with collaborators and external partners, respectfully challenging to achieve the right outcomes, resolving conflict and focusing on priorities. • Leads and influences through complexity and ambiguity, managing virtual relationships with partners in multi-discipline, multi-cultural environments • Unites diverse partners, ensuring both advantageous supply avenues and collaborative solutions to business challenges • Builds partner relationships, bringing market insights and championing supplier value whilst taking time to understand business needs. Becomes a trusted advisor and critical partner to collaborators • Prepares documentation and relevant collaborator communication to enable key decision forums Essential Education: • Degree educated - something related to Business, Real Estate, Procurement preferred - or equivalent relevant professional experience • Post graduate qualification related to procurement desirable Essential Experience and Job Requirements: Functional knowledge: Knowledge of category management principles and experience in undertaking procurement processes and developing category strategies. • An understanding of how to ensure strategies flow through to execution in the businesses / assets • Strong understanding of Real Estate, Facilities Man…