Category Management Training & Certification

You will learn

With our category management training course, you’ll be able to apply all of the models discussed directly into your organisation with an action plan. You’ll learn to utilise and apply a range of tools and techniques and gain the foundation to develop a category management strategy. Learn how to build enhanced alignment with stakeholders and create long-term strategies for managing category spend effectively and efficiently.

By the end of the training, you’ll be able to:

• Understand the rationale and principles of category management
• Assess the main categories of expenditure
• Use various models to manage categories more effectively
• Analyse market factors to support business decisions
• Implement category management across a number of spend categories
• Build some behavioural and technical skills required to implement category management
• Make the category management approach work for your business

Suitable for the following roles

Category management training agenda

• Session 1 – Rationale and principles of category management
• Session 2 – Categories of expenditure
• Session 3 – Application of category models
• Session 4 – Importance of market factors
• Session 5 – Implementation of category management
• Session 6 – Review and action plans