# Procurement Category Manager, Retail Operations

Procurement Category Manager, Retail Operations Because we strive to put people first. Culture, our way. Procurement at Primark What’s a career at Primark all about? The positive impact you’re making, the experiences you’re having and the people you’re with. You’re our inspiration. Embrace what sets you apart, own your career and develop in ways you never expected. Leave your mark. And do it your way. The Category Manager lead the activities across categories of spend with the accountability for developing and executing effective procurement strategies for the categories and actively contributing to the development of the procurement function’s service to Primark. The Category Manager supports the development and execution of effective category strategies across Retail Operations, providing deep category expertise in Integrated Facilities Management (IFM) spanning soft services (cleaning, security and cash in transit) and hard FM, and supporting the design, contracting and delivery of an IFM model across the majority of the Primark estate (excluding the Middle East, c.£290m annual spend), ensuring value creation, service performance and operational resilience. Key Tasks and Respo

- **Id**: 4200649
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/primark-procurement-category-manager-retail-operations>
- **Role**: Operations
- **Role family**: Operations
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Reading, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T16:41:11Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T22:05:03Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 8764
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Supply Chain, Apparel & Fashion Brands

## Company

- **Id**: 13528
- **Name**: Primark
- **Domain**: primark.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/primark>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: SmartRecruiters

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 80
- **Open postings**: 61
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 11
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Trust

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

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: All levels; Optional: no

## Hiring locations

- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: country

## Hiring excludes

- **United Arab Emirates** — Iso: AE
- **Egypt** — Iso: EG
- **Israel** — Iso: IL
- **Saudi Arabia** — Iso: SA
- **Turkey** — Iso: TR
- **Algeria** — Iso: DZ
- **Bahrain** — Iso: BH
- **Comoros** — Iso: KM
- **Djibouti** — Iso: DJ
- **Iran** — Iso: IR
- **Iraq** — Iso: IQ
- **Jordan** — Iso: JO
- **Kuwait** — Iso: KW
- **Lebanon** — Iso: LB
- **Libya** — Iso: LY
- **Mauritania** — Iso: MR
- **Morocco** — Iso: MA
- **Oman** — Iso: OM
- **Palestine** — Iso: PS
- **Qatar** — Iso: QA
- **Somalia** — Iso: SO
- **Sudan** — Iso: SD
- **Syria** — Iso: SY
- **Tunisia** — Iso: TN
- **Western Sahara** — Iso: EH
- **Yemen** — Iso: YE

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T22:05:03Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 11
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T00:51:10Z

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