This targeted two-day course equips you with the essential principles, techniques and practical skills needed for effective Category Management.

It offers real-world insights, templates and practical exercises, giving you greater confidence to challenge existing approaches – and introduce new and key successful elements of Category Management into your organisation.

The course includes: identifying and segmenting categories strategically, building stakeholder engagement and managing category strategies.

Category Management Essentials is ideal if you are a professional involved in supplier strategy, sourcing or procurement planning, and you are looking to boost your credibility in procurement and leadership.

Category Management Essentials

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Study Options and Start Dates

Face to Face Classes
From £395 +VAT

Virtual Classes
From £395 +VAT

If you choose Face to Face Classes or Virtual Classes, there will be various start times throughout the year.

Next Virtual Class start date: w/c 7th December
Next Face to Face Class start date: w/c 7th December

What’s Included

Two days of live classes

Online access to course materials

Certificate of completion

What’s Involved

The Category Management Essentials course will cover a range of topics during the two-day course, which include:

  • Definition of Category Management, benefits and myths
  • Tactical versus Strategic procurement
  • Category segmentation
  • Spend, analysis and demand forecasting
  • Market analysis techniques
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Strategic tools in category planning
  • Building a category strategy
  • Implementation and governance

2 Day Virtual Classes
£395 + VAT

2 Face to Face Classes
£395 + VAT

Category Management Essentials can be studied in person, via our Face to Face classes held across our study venues. Alternatively, you can study online from the comfort of your home with our interactive virtual classes.

All classes are 2 days and run from 9am to 5pm

There are no formal entry requirements for this course. But it is aimed at professionals engaged in supplier strategy, sourcing or procurement. Therefore, it is recommended you have some prior experience in one of these areas.