Remote IT Category Manager – Global IT Services & SOWs

Job Description
By joining the American Red Cross you will touch millions of lives every year and experience the greatness of the human spirit at its best. Are you ready to be part of the world's largest humanitarian network?
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Joining The American Red Cross is like nothing else - it's as much something you feel as something you do. You become a vital part of the world's largest humanitarian network. Joining a team of welcoming individuals who are exceptional, yet unassuming. Diverse, yet uncompromising in unity. You grow your career within a movement that matters, where success is measured in people helped, communities made whole, and individuals equipped to never stop changing lives and situations for the better.

When you choose to be a force for good, you'll have mentors who empower your growth along a purposeful career path. You align your life's work with an ongoing mission that's bigger than all of us. As you care for others, you're cared for with competitive compensation and benefits. You join a community that respects who you are away from work as much as what you do while at work.

The American Red Cross (ARC) spends ~$2 billion annually on goods and services. Of this amount, $1.2 billion is spent on goods and services that should be strategically sourced (sourceable), including regulated and non-regulated materials, supplies, facilities and equipment maintenance, consulting, and IT hardware and software. The $0.8 billion in spend that is not strategically sourced consists of payments to government agencies, grant recipients, inter-Red Cross transfers, and payroll and employee benefits.

Of the $1.2B that is sourceable, nearly $150M in spend each year on IT good and services.

Supply Management at the Red Cross is becoming a top performing function when compared to the outside market. The Supply Management Team works with the IT organization and IT executives to execute planned spend. To help ensure Supply Management continues to meet the needs of its Red Cross IT and business unit clients, we are seeking an IT-focused Category Manager, experienced and knowledgeable, in the procurement of services critical to supporting the delivery of key IT and business objectives.

• Provide Supply Management and IT procurement support to clients assigned by the Director, operating independently and with a high level of expertise.
• Provide category management expertise in the areas of global resourcing of application development, support, and maintenance.
• Provide negotiation leadership for agreements and statements of work in support of IT procurement demands.
• Be the lead subject matter expert for global IT professional services resourcing from regions such as the Americas, Eastern Europe, and Asia-Pacific.
• Support and enable critical project resourcing initiatives for key technologies from Salesforce, Informatica, AWS, and Microsoft.

The work location for this position is 100% virtual/work from home. While the position can be worked from anywhere in the United States, this position will work an East Coast schedule (8am - 5pm).

Appearance on video is required on a daily and frequent basis for meetings. A professional workspace is required to be maintained in the work-from-home setting.

• Work with the Sr. Director and Director of IT Strategic Procurement to ensure demands and priorities are synchronized with expectations of IT and Supply Management leadership.
• Lead, develop and implement category strategies to enable IT resourcing for on-shore, near-shore, and off-shore demands.
• Work with the CIO, IT VP leaders, and project teams to contribute to business cases, manage spend, and plan project procurement timelines.
• Work with internal partners such as the Office of the General Counsel, Enterprise Risk and Information Security to assess, negotiate and execute agreements.
• Work with Red Cross clients and suppliers to author and negotiate statements of work and ordering documents, with the goal of supporting good outcomes for project investments.
• Manage an assigned…