Purchasing Procurement Professional Associate

Overview

Job Title: Purchasing Procurement Professional Associate

Duration: 6 months (3/1/2026 - 9/1/2026)

Worksite: Remote | 8:00 AM - 05:00 PM

As part of the Client's IT Procurement team, you'll join a strategic, value driven group focused on maximizing every dollar spent.

As the Category Manager for IT Software and IT Services, you'll partner with leadership and senior stakeholders to develop, implement, and manage software and service contracts at global and regional levels. Beyond traditional sourcing, you'll build expertise in external market dynamics and internal business priorities to create strategies that reduce cost, mitigate risk, and drive efficiency.

You'll apply strong analytical skills and innovative sourcing methods, leading supplier selection across multiple work streams and collaborating with diverse stakeholder groups. Your commitment to inclusion and diversity will help you cultivate positive relationships with internal teams and a broad supplier base, including diverse and small businesses. You will lead negotiations with current and prospective suppliers and leverage deep software licensing knowledge to support collaboration, share insights, identify opportunities, and strengthen partnerships.

We' re looking for a client-focused Category Manager to grow with our team.

• Minimum 5 years of IT procurement and contracts experience
• Proven track record managing complex procurements for major projects, including RFx development, contract drafting, negotiations, and administration of purchase orders, contracts, and subcontracts
• Extensive expertise in enterprise software agreements
• Demonstrated success in negotiating and managing large-scale software and hardware agreements, particularly engineering tools and technical platforms
• Strong stakeholder management and leadership communication skills, with experience building consensus and securing enterprise alignment
• Analytical and data-driven decision-making skills, including spend analysis, market intelligence, and cost-optimization strategies
• Acts as a strategic relationship manager, driving supplier engagement and leading contract renewal initiatives, ensuring not just smooth procurement processes but also strong ongoing vendor relationships and continuous alignment with business needs

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Law, Information Technology, Supply Management, or a related field
• Extensive expertise in enterprise software agreements, with emphasis on engineering and technical software categories; deep knowledge of global licensing models (subscriptions, token-based, multi-site, enterprise, and cloud)
• Proficiency with ERP-based procurement systems
• Experience rationalizing software contracts in support of acquisitions and divestitures
• Professional certification from ISM, NCMA, or an equivalent international organization