Senior Global Indirect Sourcing Category Manager

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As the Senior Global IT Sourcing Category Manager, you will serve as a strategic partner to IT, Digital, Cybersecurity, and business leaders, co‑developing sourcing strategies that enable technology outcomes while optimizing total cost of ownership. This role is highly collaborative focused on building trust, aligning priorities, and influencing decisions across a global, matrixed organization.

You will work side‑by‑side with stakeholders to shape sourcing approaches that balance cost, risk, innovation, and speed, supporting both day‑to‑day operational needs and long‑term technology transformation.

• Collaborate closely with IT and business stakeholders to understand technology roadmaps, architectural standards, demand drivers, and future capabilities.
• Co‑develop and execute IT category strategies covering software, SaaS, cloud, infrastructure, telecom, cybersecurity, and IT services.
• Facilitate ongoing dialogue between Procurement, IT, Finance, Legal, and Risk to ensure sourcing decisions are well aligned, transparent, and sustainable.
• Build and manage a jointly prioritized sourcing pipeline, ensuring stakeholders buy in from concept through implementation.
• Lead RFIs, RFQs, and RFPs in partnership with IT teams, aligning commercial outcomes with technical and operational requirements.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to stakeholders by providing market insights, supplier intelligence, and recommendations on sourcing and commercial models.
• Lead end‑to‑end commercial negotiations, including direct contract redlining and collaboration with Legal, Finance, and stakeholders to resolve complex terms related to pricing, risk, liability, SLAs, data privacy, and compliance.
• Manage a high volume of concurrent contracts and sourcing initiatives, maintaining momentum across multiple negotiations and ensuring timely execution without sacrificing quality or stakeholder alignment.
• Balance value delivery across cost optimization, supplier performance, innovation, flexibility, and risk mitigation.
• Support supplier relationships through collaborative governance, performance reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Promote adoption of best practice IT procurement processes while remaining flexible to evolving business and technology needs.
• Encourage knowledge sharing and continuous improvement across procurement and IT communities.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience.
• 5+ years of experience in indirect procurement, with strong emphasis on IT sourcing and stakeholder partnership.
• Proven experience working collaboratively with IT leadership, and functional teams.
• Hands‑on experience sourcing key IT categories such as software, SaaS, cloud, infrastructure, telecom, cybersecurity, and IT services.
• Demonstrated ability to negotiate and redline complex supplier contracts, including software, SaaS, cloud, and IT services agreements.
• Strong understanding of IT commercial constructs (subscriptions, licensing, consumption‑based pricing, managed services).
• Experience facilitating cross‑functional discussions and…