Category Leader – Corporate Services

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute global Facilities Management and Travel category strategies, sourcing pipelines, and multi-year roadmaps across all locations.
• Manage global sourcing, supplier selection, negotiations, and contract frameworks, including preferred suppliers, pricing, service levels, and travel programmes.
• Deliver value through demand management, standardisation, supplier consolidation, TCO optimisation, and benefits tracking.
• Manage strategic supplier relationships, driving performance, innovation, sustainability, risk mitigation, and continuous improvement.
• Define category standards and sourcing guidelines, ensuring consistent execution, compliance, and adoption of preferred suppliers.
• Partner with stakeholders across HR, Finance, IT, Sustainability, Travel, Procurement, and ABF to execute strategies and meet business needs.
• Own Corporate Services spend for Poland and support sourcing initiatives across TwiningsOvo locations.

Skills, Knowledge, and Proficiency

• At least 5 years of procurement experience in a FMCG business
• Day-to-day experience in leading procurement categories: Facilities Management, Travel, Corporate Services or comparable indirect categories
• University degree level education
• Solid understanding of Facilities Management and Travel supply markets
• Fluency in both English and Polish (written and spoken)
• Experience in SAP and Ariba Guided Buying and E-Sourcing would be an asset

Benefits

• Private health care - family covered 
• Hybrid mode work
• Subsidized meals in local canteen 
• One additional, fully paid day off over the Festive period  
• Discounted online Twinings tea shop  
• Welcome pack for newborn Twinings babies  
• Co-financed MultiSport card 
• Co-financed kindergarten 
• Discounts for sport, education and travels 
• Vouchers for Christmas 
• Holiday bonus  
• Comprehensive wellbeing program 
• Vouchers for beauty treatments  
• Onsite beauty treatments 
• Twice yearly parties for the whole team

About
Twinings has become one of the world’s most renowned tea companies over its 300-year history because we never stop learning, never stop experimenting and never stop inventing. We take pride in our tea from bud to cup and have been working with some of our tea estates around the world since the early 18th Century. More than 300 years later, the love of tea is still here - and so are we! We still sell tea from Thomas’s shop, and we still work hard to bring the most innovative new blends to tea lovers around the world. Now, we have over 500 varieties and our teas are cherished all over the world. Our expert master blenders taste more than 3,000 cups of tea every week. So you can be sure the next cup you taste will be every bit as good as the one yesterday or the day before. Our approach to Diversity, Equity & InclusionAt TwiningsOvo, we believe in the power of diversity to drive innovation and meaningful work. We are committed to building a workplace where people from all backgrounds, identities, and experiences feel safe, valued, have a sense of belonging and  are empowered to thrive. Inclusion is more than a goal,  it’s how we work together every day. As an equal opportunity employer, we prohibit any unlawful discrimination against an applicant on the basis of their ethnicity, colour, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, family or parental status, disability, neurodiversity, age, socioeconomic background or any other status protected by law and are committed to promoting diversity across our workplace.Applicants may be entitled to reasonable adjustments under the terms of the Equality Act. A reasonable adjustment is a change in the way things are typically done which will ensure an equal employment opportunity. Please inform our Talent Acquisition or HR Shared Services team if you need any assistance completing your application or to otherwise participate in the application process.