IT Category Manager
Duration: 12 months
Location: Glen Mills, PA | Hybrid (Mon/Wed/Thu) for local candidates; fully remote candidates also considered
Pay Rate: $40–50/hr.
Responsibilities
Develop and execute
global IT category strategies
to optimize spend, reduce costs, and improve value.
Manage relationships with IT stakeholders and identify sourcing and cost-saving opportunities.
Lead
RFPs, competitive sourcing events, financial analysis, and vendor negotiations
.
Negotiate major software, cloud, professional services, and outsourcing agreements.
Monitor global IT market trends, suppliers, competitors, and emerging technologies.
Partner with IT, Legal, Information Security, Privacy, and Procurement teams to ensure compliant, low-risk agreements.
Track category spend, savings, contracts, renewals, and competitive events in procurement systems.
Collaborate with the broader IT Procurement team to ensure consistent global strategies and processes.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree
5–10+ years of
IT procurement/category management
experience.
Proven experience managing
$50M+ in contract spend
; candidates with only $2–3M transactional spend are not a fit.
Strong
global IT procurement
experience supporting international operations.
Experience negotiating and redlining
master agreements, SOWs, professional services, outsourcing, software, and cloud contracts
.
Experience negotiating large enterprise software agreements such as
SAP, Microsoft, Workday, or ServiceNow
, as well as niche software contracts.
Ariba
experience is a plus.