Associate Category Manager

Location: Letterkenny (Hybrid)

Come join us in our state of the art office in Letterkenny as we are expanding. We are hiring Five Associate Category Managers to join multiple teams across our Global Sourcing and Procurement (GSP) Organisation.

What you can expect

Prudential's Global Sourcing and Procurement (GSP) organization drives enterprise-wide value by cultivating strategic supplier partnerships and elevating commercial decision making across the business. GSP provides global stakeholders with streamlined access to best-in-class products and services, informed by robust business intelligence, deep supply market knowledge, and a clear grasp of micro and macroeconomic dynamics. Through efficient, disciplined processes and proactive commercial coaching, GSP empowers stakeholders to make informed, value-driven decisions that strengthen Prudential's competitive advantage.

As an Associate Category Manager you will play a critical role in enabling the GSP mission, assisting with category planning, sourcing activities, market and supplier analysis, and ensuring effective delivery of key initiatives. You will help maintain accurate value pipelines, ensuring compliance with Buying Channel guidelines, and coordinates sourcing efforts across regions. Working in a global environment, the Associate Category Manager will enable consistent execution of the Category Management framework and drives measurable, Finance-validated results.

Categories managed include

• Real Estate and Facilities, Human Resources, and Consulting.
• Enterprise and Desktop Software and Maintenance, Public, Private, Hybrid and Community Cloud Storage Services, Hardware for Endpoint, Infrastructure and related Maintenance, Telecommunications
• Asset Management Operations (e.g., Custody, Transfer Agencies), Investment Fees, Banking Services, Insurances, Data (e.g., Market and Alternative Data), Trading Platforms
• Ad Agencies, Commercial and Financial Print, Events and Conferences, Marketing Creativity and Production

• Support category initiative execution by independently preparing analysis, drafting sourcing materials, coordinating RFx activities, and managing day-to-day follow-ups with suppliers.
• Maintain and update the category pipeline by accurately tracking initiative baselines, milestones, risks, and variance commentary, ensuring information is clear and review ready for senior leaders. ready for senior leaders.
• Contribute to Category Cards and Buying Channel rules by drafting updates, assessing stakeholder feedback, and coordinating changes with Systems & Analytics.
• Perform advanced spend, market, and supplier analyses, including benchmarking, pricing trend reviews, total cost breakdowns, and initial TCO assessments to inform category decisions.
• Prepare stakeholder ready materials, summarizing sourcing insights, supplier comparisons, negotiation preparation inputs, and early recommendations for review.
• Coordinate sourcing documentation and contracting workflows, ensuring complete, accurate, and audit ready records within sourcing and CLM systems.
• Collaborate with regional teams in the US, Ireland, India, Japan, and other locations to align sourcing timelines, share insights, and support consistent global execution.
• Use procurement and AI enabled tools to enhance analysis, sourcing activities, and document preparation, and identify practical opportunities for process improvement.

• Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain, finance, operations, economics, or related field.
• 5-7 years of experience in procurement, category management, sourcing, or supplier management.
• Demonstrated ability to manage sourcing events, prepare negotiation materials, and contribute meaningfully to category decisions.
• Strong analytical capability, with experience interpreting spend data, benchmarks, supplier pricing, etc.
• Familiarity with procurement and contracting technologies (e.g., e-sourcing tools, CLM platforms); experience with AI-enabled tools preferred. sourcing tools, CLM platforms); experience with AIenabled tools preferred.
• Proven ability to collaborate across business functions and regions, managing deliverables with minimal supervision.

• Health Insurance: PGIM Ireland partner with Laya and BUPA to provide health insurance schemes that cover eligible employees day to day medical and hospital expenses.
• Annual Leave of 23 days at full pay.
• Pension Scheme: Members of the scheme can contribute up to 8% of salary per annum and PGIM Ireland matches contributions up to 8% of salary. Members can also make voluntary contributions to the scheme.
• Annual Bonus Programme & Shop LK Vouchers / CleverCards (subject to eligibility): Along with an annual bonus employees are rewarded with Shop LK Vouchers/ CleverCards which are paid tax free.
• Life Assurance: fully paid by PGIM Ireland, employees are covered from their start date and beneficiaries are provided with a lump sum of four times an employee's salary.
• Education Assistance: PGIM Ireland have an Education Assistance Programme that reimburses eligible employees for furthering their education.