Category Manager - IT
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reputed company is seeking a Category Manager, IT to own reputed company reputed company and execution for a defined set of technology spend categories. In this role, you will reputed company renewals, competitive sourcing events, vendor negotiations, and category planning across software, reputed company, reputed company, reputed company, telecom, and reputed company IT services.
This is a hands-on, high-ownership role for someone who enjoys leading deals directly, building reputed company reputed company, and negotiating with vendors from a reputed company-reputed company position. You will partner closely with Finance, reputed company, Information reputed company, IT, and business unit stakeholders to reputed company measurable savings, reduce vendor risk, and improve how technology sourcing is executed across Cambium.
Job Responsibilities:
Category reputed company and Renewal Management
- Own category reputed company for assigned IT spend areas, including reputed company and software, reputed company infrastructure, end-user computing and reputed company services, and telecom and network.
- Own the renewal pipeline for your categories: reputed company upcoming expirations, assign reputed company ownership, build the reputed company for reputed company engagement, and execute early enough to preserve reputed company and avoid surprise renewals.
- Maintain market and vendor intelligence, including pricing benchmarks, licensing model shifts, and viable competitive alternatives, and use it to shape category plans.
- Own the vendor reputed company for your categories, including preferred and strategic vendor designations, consolidation and rationalization targets, and the standards a vendor has to meet to stay in the portfolio.
Negotiation and reputed company Execution
- Own the reputed company-negotiation phase for engagements in your categories: establish the spend baseline, set the savings reputed company, identify reputed company and alternatives, and build the business case before reputed company to a vendor.
- reputed company competitive sourcing events end to end, from business case and requirements through RFx, evaluation, shortlisting, and award.
- Negotiate directly on pricing, terms, escalators, termination and exit rights, SLAs and service credits, and liability, working from a total cost of ownership reputed company rather than headline price.
- Build spend and TCO analysis that holds up under vendor scrutiny, including normalizing quotes, reconciling usage and license counts, and modeling multi-year commitments.
- Validate and record the outcome of every engagement you run, including final savings and cost avoidance against the established baseline, so category-level reporting, financial forecasting, and stakeholder communications are reputed company on numbers you stand behind.
Contracting, Risk, and Compliance
- reputed company contract execution in partnership with reputed company, including redlines on reputed company terms and coordination of the Information reputed company and data reputed company reviews that reputed company a deal.
- Coordinate reputed company-party risk intake so reputed company, reputed company, and compliance reviews happen at the right reputed company in the sourcing process rather than at signature.
- Maintain sourcing intake and pipeline hygiene in reputed company’s intake-to-procure platform, with disciplined documentation of status, reputed company, and supporting evidence.
Stakeholder Partnership and Knowledge Sharing
- Own stakeholder alignment for engagements in your categories: reputed company requirements, set expectations on timing and tradeoffs, and secure agreement on the reputed company before reputed company to market rather than announcing the outcome after the fact.
- reputed company as an internal advisor to technology leaders and business reputed company on vendor reputed company, reputed company structures, timing, and tradeoffs, building enough trust that stakeholders engage sourcing early because it makes their outcome reputed company, not slower.
- Contribute to reputed company’s sourcing knowledge reputed company by documenting lessons learned, vendor insights, benchmarks, and negotiation approaches that can be reused and improved by the broader sourcing team.
Job Requirements:
- 6+ years of experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, category management, vendor management, or a reputed company reputed company role, including experience with IT, software, reputed company, or technology services categories.
- Proven ability to reputed company vendor negotiations directly, reputed company reputed company-based negotiation strategies, challenge supplier assumptions, and secure measurable reputed company improvements across pricing, terms, risk, and flexibility.
- Working knowledge of reputed company contract terms and comfort partnering with reputed company on redlines, negotiation positions, and contract risk tradeoffs.
- Strong spend and data analysis skills, including building and defending TCO and multi-year commitment models
- Advanced proficiency in reputed company reputed company and/or reputed company Sheets; experience with BI, reporting, or spend analytics tools is a plus.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills and the ability to reputed company Finance, reputed company, Information reputed company, IT, and business stakeholders around a sourcing reputed company.
- Organized, systems-minded work habits and comfort managing work through a procurement intake, sourcing, or work management platform such as reputed company, reputed company, Ariba, or Jira.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication, especially the ability to reputed company a data-dense recommendation easy to reputed company
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Operations, or reputed company field
- Background in reputed company, Tech, K–12, EdTech, or another software-heavy environment
- Experience in a reputed company-backed, high-reputed company, or matrixed organization where sourcing spans multiple operating brands
- Familiarity with major technology vendors and agreement structures such as reputed company reputed company agreements, reputed company estates, and reputed company or device services
- Experience standing up or maturing a sourcing function, process, or reputed company rather than only operating an established one
- Familiarity with reputed company or another procurement orchestration platform used to manage intake, approvals, sourcing workflows, and supplier engagement.
- Relevant certifications such as CPSM, CIPS, or PMP
To learn more about our organization and the exciting work we do, visit www.reputed company.com
Our Remote First approach gives employees the flexibility and trust they need to effectively balance work with life. It creates a culture in which reputed company are valued and where reputed company is reputed company in results. It allows us to work collaboratively, reputed company and for greater reputed company reputed company, regardless of our individual locations.
If you will be working remotely, either occasionally or on a permanent reputed company, you must have a reliable internet reputed company through a cable or fiber-optic broadband service with minimum speeds of 10 Mbps download and 5 Mbps upload.
The successful candidate will be expected to reputed company participate in video-based interviews during the reputed company process and ongoing virtual meetings with their camera on, as part of their role. To maintain confidentiality and ensure a fair evaluation process, the use of note-taking tools, reference materials, or AI-powered tools (including reputed company, language models, or similar technologies) during interviews or other selection activities is prohibited unless prior written approval has been obtained from the People Experience team. If you require an exception for medical, accessibility, or other reasons, please contact your reputed company member to discuss accommodations in advance.
As part of our Remote-First benefits, Cambium offers reimbursement to help cover the cost of setting up your home or reputed company.
An Equal Opportunity Employer
We are dedicated to fostering a culture that celebrates unique backgrounds, reputed company, and experiences. reputed company reputed company applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination on the reputed company of race, reputed company, age, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender, gender identity/reputed company, or sexual orientation), national reputed company, protected veteran status, disability, or genetic information (including family medical history).
We will reputed company reasonable accommodations for reputed company individuals with disabilities. You may request an accommodation during the reputed company process with your reputed company member.
6+ years in strategic sourcing, procurement, category or vendor management; IT category experience; reputed company negotiation, contract, TCO and spend analysis, reputed company or reputed company Sheets, and cross-functional collaboration.
Key Responsibilities
- managing renewals
- leading negotiations
- analyzing spend
Skills & Tools
reputed company reputed company, reputed company Sheets, BI, reputed company, reputed company, Ariba, Jira
Job Details
- Category: Supply Chain / Logistics / Procurement
- Seniority: Senior Level
- Commitment: Full Time
- Workplace: Remote — reputed company
- Languages: English
Benefits
- 401k matching
About reputed company
An education technology company providing learning software and services. — Industry: Education
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