# Global Category Manager

We are looking for a strategic Global Category Manager to lead our worldwide procurement portfolio covering Management Consultancy, Audit, Financial Services, Corporate Insurance, and specialized Outsourced Services. Operating within a complex, international matrix organization, you will act as a trusted commercial partner to executive leadership across Finance, Legal, and core business units. Your mission is to shape how the organization accesses, governs, and extracts value from external advisory partners-balancing commercial agility, cost efficiency, regulatory compliance, and long-term supplier innovation. Key Responsibilities Global Category Strategy & Value Pipeline:Architect and execute a multi-year category roadmap aligned with enterprise transformation priorities. Build a sustainable value pipeline centered on demand management, total cost optimization, risk mitigation, and supplier performance. Leverage market intelligence, rate-card benchmarking, and spend analytics to guide executive sourcing decisions and standardize preferred supplier panels. Executive Business Partnering & Demand Governance:Advise senior leaders across Finance, Legal, Risk, IT, and Transformation Pr

- **Id**: 4171480
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/link-group-global-category-manager>
- **Role**: Operations
- **Role family**: Operations
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Poland
- **Countries**: PL
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T13:14:56Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T14:52:22Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3645
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: IT Outsourcing & Dedicated Teams, Managed IT Services (MSP), IT Staffing & Staff Augmentation

## Company

- **Id**: 880
- **Name**: Link Group
- **Domain**: linkgroup.co
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/link-group>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: staffing
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Recruitify

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 81
- **Open postings**: 91
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.758
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 44
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Hiring locations

- **Poland** — Iso: PL; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T14:52:22Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 44
- **Reasons**: conf:4, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T19:49:38Z

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