Global Category Manager – Fleet

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Are you a strategic procurement leader who can see beyond traditional sourcing? As our Global Category Manager, Fleet, you will play a key role in shaping the future of Smith+Nephew's global Fleet and Mobility portfolio. From vehicle leasing and fleet management to electrification, mobility solutions and emerging technologies, you will partner with stakeholders across the business to influence enterprise decisions, deliver commercial value and build a more sustainable, efficient and future ready fleet programme. This is a unique opportunity to operate at a global level, lead through influence and make a measurable impact on cost, service, sustainability and employee experience.

What will you be doing?

In this role, you will own and evolve Smith+Nephew's global Fleet category strategy, ensuring it supports operational, financial and sustainability priorities across the organisation. Working closely with Fleet Management, Finance, HR, Sustainability and regional leaders, you will identify opportunities to optimise total cost of ownership, improve supplier performance and unlock innovation across the portfolio.

You will lead complex negotiations with strategic suppliers, establish governance frameworks, and drive value creation initiatives across fleet operations, technology platforms, mobility services and transformation programmes. As fleet markets continue to evolve through electrification, regulation and digitalisation, you will provide market insight and strategic direction that helps the business make informed decisions and stay ahead of industry developments.

What will you need to be successful?

Success in this role comes from your ability to balance strategic thinking with commercial execution while building strong partnerships across a complex global organisation. You will be comfortable challenging stakeholders, navigating change and using data driven insights to influence decisions that deliver measurable value.

Key requirements include:

- Significant experience managing Fleet, Mobility, Automotive, Travel or related indirect procurement categories within a global organisation
- Proven success developing and delivering category strategies that generate measurable commercial and business outcomes
- Strong experience leading complex negotiations, supplier relationship management and transformation initiatives involving external partners
- Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to build credibility across senior leadership teams and matrix organisations

The anticipated base compensation range for this position is PLN 228,000 - PLN 342,000 annually.

The actual base pay offered to the successful candidate will be based on objective, job-related factors including (but not limited to) relevant skills, qualifications, and experience, scope and responsibilities of the role, geographic location, and internal equity considerations. Compensation decisions are made using consistent and gender-neutral criteria, in line with applicable pay transparency laws. This role has been evaluated within our internal job architecture and mapped to a defined pay band to ensure consistency and fairness.

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- Your Future: Generous annual bonus, life insurance, Save As You Earn share options.
- Work/Life Balance: Flexible Vacation and Time Off, Paid Holidays and Paid Volunteering Hours, so we can give back to our communities!
- Your Wellbeing: Private Health and Dental plans, multisport card/my benefit platform and much more.
- Flexibility: Hybrid Working Model (For most professional roles).
- Training: Hands-On, Team-Customised, Mentorship, subsidies for language classes, certifications and postgraduate studies.

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