Category Manager - Technology Sourcing

Title - Category Manager - Technology Sourcing

Location - ** This is a Hybrid role. Highly preferred location • Lehi, UT. Also open for San Jose, CA**

Duration • 12 Months

Pay rate • $67.04

** This is a Hybrid role. Highly preferred location • Lehi, UT. Also open for San Jose, CA**

The Opportunity

The client purchases goods and services with thousands of suppliers each year. Our goal is to enable teams to execute on their goals and initiatives as it relates to purchasing goods and services and acquiring the best value for us! You will have the chance to lead sourcing projects while you partner with internal teams and suppliers to optimize spend across indirect categories.

What you'll do

Category Manager –Technology Services serves as a liaison with internal business customers and suppliers in the strategies and execution of high complexity and high-risk sourcing projects related to consumption of 3rd party software & Colocation Services.

Obtains the best value to business and commercial terms

Actively contributes to major/strategic supplier performance initiatives aimed at bettering financial and operational performance

Demonstrate ability to build strong trusted relationships with senior internal stakeholders

Jointly leads or leads cross-functional management to plan sourcing strategies and supplier management programs aligned with business objectives

Proactively seek value/savings opportunities across category spend, negotiate, and report in the appropriate format

Manage contracts to ensure that commercial obligations are met and the process for renewal or replacement of existing agreement is proactively managed and scalable to accommodate for growth

Develop, issue and manage RFx activity as appropriate to find the best sourcing solution that meets business and commercial requirements and lead commercial negotiations to ensure receives best value and associated cost savings

Ensure proper risk mitigation through legal terms, as well as robust Service Level Agreements (SLAs)

Liaise with legal for the negotiation of large/high risk agreements to ensure favorable commercial terms.

Report progress on a weekly basis, indicating work planning and work in progress. Add agreements, service details and payment forecasts into procurement systems in a complete and timely manner

Strong negotiator: guiding and leading the business to get the best result for

Understands and can extract insight into spend patterns using Dashboards and other tools

Utilizes and maintains procurement tools according to Global Procurement standards and expectations

Processes contracts according to Legal Playbook and policies

Applies SRM techniques to ensure the supply base is providing required level of services, including but not limited to SBRs, spend analytics, etc.