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Senior Sourcing Category Manager

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This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.

Shape Global Partnerships. Deliver Sustainable Value.

Are you a strategic sourcing professional with a global mindset and a passion for building high-value supplier relationships?

We’re looking for a Senior Sourcing Category Manager to lead sourcing strategies and supplier performance across premium components and finished goods in our House of Rohl portfolio—spanning faucets, showers, sinks, and accessories.

This is a high-impact role with international scope, offering the opportunity to influence cost, quality, sustainability, and long-term resilience across global supply chains. You'll play a key role in supporting business growth, delivering value, and driving continuous improvement in a luxury and design-led environment.

What You’ll Be Responsible For:

  • Category Leadership: Develop and execute robust, forward-thinking sourcing strategies for assigned categories that align with global and regional objectives.
  • Supplier Management: Build and manage strong, performance-driven relationships with international suppliers, ensuring optimal cost, quality, and delivery performance.
  • Contract Negotiation: Negotiate and manage complex, high-value contracts—securing long-term value, reducing risk, and ensuring continuity of supply.
  • Risk Mitigation: Proactively identify and address supply chain risks including raw material availability, pricing fluctuations, logistics disruption, and geopolitical challenges.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Engineering, Quality, Finance, and Operations to deliver cross-functional solutions and enable innovation.
  • Continuous Improvement: Drive cost-reduction, value engineering, and supplier-led innovation initiatives while supporting ESG and responsible sourcing commitments.

What You’ll Already Have:

Essential:

  • 7+ years’ experience in direct procurement or category management, ideally in manufacturing or a design-led product environment
  • Strong commercial acumen and advanced negotiation skills
  • Demonstrated experience managing sourcing strategies and supplier relationships across regions
  • Proven ability to thrive in a complex, matrixed business structure
  • A team-first, solutions-focused mindset with excellent stakeholder engagement skills

Desirable:

  • Degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering or related discipline
  • MCIPS qualified or working towards CIPS accreditation
  • Experience managing international suppliers and global sourcing networks
  • A track record of supporting sustainability and ESG-related sourcing initiatives

Why Work With Us?

At Fortune Brands, We Work Together, Think Big, and Learn Fast. You’ll be empowered to make decisions, lead with creativity, and shape experiences that leave a lasting impression on our clients. Our values go beyond buzzwords—they guide everything we do.

The Benefits:
• 33 days holiday (inclusive of Bank Holidays)
• Annual Incentive Plan Bonus Structure
• Health & Wellbeing Programme + Health Cash Plan
• Life Assurance & Pension Plan
• Flexible Working Model
• Employee Assistance Programme
• High Street Reward Scheme
• Eye Care Support for Frequent Screen Users
• Refer a Friend Programme
• Free Parking
• Employee Recognition Programme

Our Hiring Process:
• You’ll be contacted by our resourcing team for an initial conversation.
• You’ll be invited to our site for an engaging 1 or 2-stage interview process.
• We’ll give you full clarity on what to expect—so you can truly shine.
• If successful, we’ll confirm your start date and welcome you to your House of Rohl journey.
• If you haven’t heard from us within 4 weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful.

Join us and lead the future of premium global sourcing. Apply now and be part of something truly distinctive.

Fortune Brands Innovations are a US-based company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange, that owns and develops a dynamic portfolio of brands for homes worldwide. Our specialist kitchen and bathroom division, Fortune Brands Water Innovations, is made up of leading luxury British brands, Shaws, Perrin & Rowe and Victoria + Albert, plus Riobel from Canada. We market these together under the House of Rohl name.

In addition, Aqualisa completes our portfolio with its market-leading digital showering technology.

Our brands are united by a belief in design, innovation and craftmanship, leading to beautiful and high-quality products.

With manufacturing sites throughout the UK, and a House of Rohl showroom at the Design Centre in London, we currently employ over 600 people, dedicated to delivering excellent products and service throughout our supply chain. A new multi-million pound state-of-the-art facility at the i54 Business Park in Wolverhampton will be completed later this year, generating exciting new opportunities across the business as we continue to grow.

Watch our short video to discover more about Perrin & Rowe, Shaws, Riobel and Victoria + Albert – the brands that make up the House of Rohl.

Es John Featherby – Finance Director EMEAA

Siobhan has worked for Fortune Brands since November 2021, joining as the EMEAA HR Business Partner and was appointed into the HR Director role from 2022. Combining strategic and operational HR expertise Siobhan likes to apply a fresh but practical approach to HR, she firmly believes in a People First mindset with the aim of to put the "human" back into Human Resources. Prior to joining Fortune Brands, Siobhan worked with Pilgrims UK, part of the JBS group, and spent 4 years in a senior HR leadership role, with a strong record in HR in both FMCG and manufacturing. Siobhan’s career started in a very different way though, she used to manage multi-site sales and operations for one of Europe's largest leisure operators. Siobhan is MCIPD qualified and is a Master NLP Practitioner.

Jim Platt – VP Water Innovations - EMEAA

Jim has worked for Fortune Brands since 2018. Jim is responsible for the integration and alignment of our sales teams across our four business entities, leading our cross-functional business improvement programmes. He is also currently developing our channel strategies and implementation programmes. Jim joined Fortune Brands having extensive experience across Sales and Marketing, especially Channel & Brand Management, and Account Management, Strategic Partnerships, Acquisitions, Business Integration, Change Management within the Sales Leadership arena. Jim has a Degree in Business & Finance (specialising in Marketing)

Siobhan Spruce – HR Director - EMEAA

James Smith – Marketing Director EMEAA

James has worked for Fortune Brands since 2019. Focussed on developing and growing all our brands across the EMEAA region, James has created an integrated marketing team working across all the brands. Launching the House of Rohl concept into EMEAA, he has also introduced a new brand to the offer in Riobel, opening a showroom in London and re-branding all marketing materials in 5 languages, and most recently integrated the Aqualisa brand into the team. This new structure has enabled the Company to develop a market-leading future vision for our brands, which guides us in the development of new products and future marketing support. James has a Degree from Aston University in Marketing & Economics, and prior to joining Fortune Brands, was the European Marketing Director at Sherwin Williams, managing brands like Ronseal and Valspar.

Okke Roosjen – Sales Director EMEAA International

Paul has worked for Fortune Brands since 2018. Paul leads all product development at Aqualisa. First starting work for Aqualisa in 1995, Paul worked on the development of the digital shower. He then moved within Baxi Group to take up the role of Group Technical Director and led a number of new product developments across the heating industry in Europe. Paul then joined Gtech to develop a ground-breaking cordless vacuum cleaner helping the company to grow from £5m turnover to £130m turnover in 5 years. Paul returned to Aqualisa at the end of 2018 to help turn the bathroom “Smart”. During his career he has won 3 Queens awards for innovations at Aqualisa, Baxi and Gtech. Paul is an Apprentice-trained engineer with a Master’s Degree in Engineering Design from Loughborough University.

Jonathon White - Sales Director

Our people are what make our business, and we truly care about creating a ‘Home for All’ where employees are empowered to make a difference, and able to bring their authentic selves to work. We are passionate about rewarding excellence and helping people to grow, both personally and professionally, during their time with us.

Our Values are integral to the way we work, we are:

Aligned in our work together
Agile in the face of change
Accountable to our promises
Action with integrity and transparency

Underpinning our values are a set of behaviours which is one of the measures we use to track the progress towards our goals, both as individuals and teams. Those who are successful within our business have a strong ability to drive results, collaborate with others, plan and align; and be an active learner.

As a growing business with a focus on excellence, we are always looking for fresh talent to join us on our journey; and alongside that, we are committed to nurturing and growing our people to achieve their potential with us. We take a flexible approach to development and progression opportunities, always preferring to promote from within, even if someone isn’t quite the finished article yet.

We believe that everyone plays their part in helping to shape our future; whether that is joining one of our Early Careers Programmes, being part of our Mentoring Programme, or exploring how your strengths can be used cross-functionally, we want you to be a part of our journey. Meet some of our team to understand more about how their careers have developed during their time with us.

We reward our teams not only for big headline results, but for how positively they contribute to the business. The benefits we offer may vary depending on what role you come onboard as, but all of our employees can enjoy:

  • An annual incentive bonus structure based on business and individual performance
  • 33 days holiday.
  • A Health and Wellbeing programme, including health cash plan, employee assistance programme, occupational health, mental health first aid, and monthly themed activity to support team wellbeing.
  • Occupational Pension Scheme
  • Life Assurance
  • Employee Incentive Schemes, such as our ‘High5 Rewards’ and Refer a Friend bonuses
  • Free parking on all company sites
  • And as an employer who values you, you will be welcomed with open arms and supported to succeed.

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