Senior Category Manager & Head of Sourcing Operations

Senior Category Manager & Head of Sourcing Operations

About The Metropolitan Museum Of Art

The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy. The Museum lives in two iconic sites in New York City—The Met Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloisters. Millions of people also take part in The Met experience online.

Since its founding in 1870, The Met has always aspired to be more than a treasury of rare and beautiful objects. We are committed to fostering a collaborative and respectful work environment with a staff as diverse as the audiences we engage. Our staff members are art lovers who are passionate about working toward a common goal: creating the most dynamic and inspiring art museum in the world.

Respect: Engage one another with collegiality, empathy, and kindness, always.

Inclusivity: Ensure that all are and feel welcome and valued.

Collaboration: Reach across boundaries to exchange ideas and work together toward our shared mission.

Excellence: Lead the cultural world in quality and expertise—and inspire curiosity and creativity.

Integrity: Hold ourselves to the highest moral standards, admit when we fall short, and then evolve.

Supplier Strategy & Operations (S2O) drives the strategy and optimization of purchases across The Met, ensuring world‑class strategic sourcing through an efficient Intake‑to‑Pay (I2P) process. By applying industry best practices, S2O manages risk, streamlines sourcing activities, and safeguards the Museum’s interests.

• Embeds a culture of standardized, strategic sourcing and negotiations across the institution;
• Acts as a financial steward, proactively delivering cost savings and efficiencies;
• Serves as the subject matter experts in all aspects of strategic sourcing;
• Oversees Supplier Relationship Management;
• Ensures business processes are sustainable and future‑ready;
• Balances strong controls with operational efficiency to effectively manage risk.

As the Senior Category Manager & Head of Sourcing Operations, you will serve as both a senior leader and category manager, partnering closely with the Chief Procurement Officer to design and execute institution‑wide sourcing strategies, policies, and processes. In partnership with stakeholders from across the museum you will maximize opportunities, mitigate risk, and drive sourcing strategy across the Museum. You will have direct responsibility for the Capital Projects, Facilities, and Buildings portfolio, including oversight of sourcing execution, operational optimization, supplier relationship development, and alignment of sourcing activities with The Met’s commitments to excellence, sustainability, diversity, and community impact.

As a visible and trusted leader, you will build credibility with colleagues across Finance, Operations, project management, departments, and senior leadership—guiding staff to embrace best practices and institutional strategies—while also representing the Museum externally with suppliers and partners.

• Liaise with and articulate the CPO’s vision and objectives, ensuring clarity of direction across S2O team and to stakeholders.
• Drive both short‑ and long‑term sourcing category & supplier strategies, with alignment to internal teams and key stakeholders.
• Develop and grow SRM and sustainability programs, measuring and reporting progress to the CPO.
• Present high‑profile updates and recommendations to CPO & senior leadership.
• Support institutional reporting needs, including inflation data, tariff risks, supply chain disruptions, diversity, and spend/cost analysis.
• Partner with S2O, technology, data teams to enhance ERP utilization (Workday, WSS, etc.), business intelligence and sourcing tools.
• Ensure adherence to sourcing policies, risk management practices, and compliance with institutional standards.
• Liaise with Comptroller’s office on administration of p‑card, corporate card, sourcing roles and reporting.
• Lead a team of two direct (and multiple indirect) reports, providing feedback, coaching, motivation, and skills development.
• Mentor high‑potential staff,…