Category Manager Software

You will execute software category plans and end-to-end sourcing events, including commercial analysis, negotiations, contracting, and award recommendations. You will manage supplier performance, renewals, licenses, and commercial terms; advise stakeholders; track market risks; maintain procurement compliance and records; coordinate across regions; and develop category playbooks and cost models.

Responsibilities

• Support software category planning and strategy implementation
• Plan and run RFI, RFQ, and RFP sourcing events
• Prepare commercial evaluation models, negotiation strategies, and award recommendations
• Support agreement negotiations and structure pricing, licensing, renewals, SLAs, and commercial terms
• Monitor supplier delivery, service levels, support quality, and renewal risk
• Manage supplier escalation paths
• Advise stakeholders on software requirements, licensing, timelines, and total cost of ownership
• Track licensing models, price inflation, vendor consolidation, and consumption trends
• Ensure purchases follow procurement policy and controls
• Maintain records in sourcing and contract systems
• Coordinate global frameworks and regional exceptions
• Contribute to category playbooks, should-cost models, and sourcing lessons learned

Requirements

• 5+ years of technology procurement or strategic sourcing experience
• Experience with software categories, including SaaS and enterprise applications
• Experience delivering complex sourcing projects through contract signature
• Experience with software-provider or reseller negotiations
• Knowledge of software subscriptions, enterprise agreements, true-ups, consumption commitments, renewals, and license optimization
• Ability to partner with business, technology, and finance stakeholders
• Experience in a matrixed global environment
• Negotiation, analytical, and financial skills
• Ability to build and interpret total-cost-of-ownership and should-cost analyses
• Knowledge of sourcing methodologies, contract structures, and enterprise-software commercial terms
• Experience with procurement systems and contract and spend-data management
• Experience in trading or other technology-intensive industries is preferred
• Experience with software asset management, license optimization, or SaaS lifecycle programs is preferred

Benefits

• Performance-based bonus structure
• 401(k) match up to 50%
• Health, mental-health, dental, vision, disability, and life coverage
• 25 paid vacation days and market holidays
• Breakfast, lunch, and snacks
• Regular social events, clubs, and sports leagues