IT Category Manager
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Category Manager at American Red Cross overseeing critical IT procurement supporting humanitarian efforts. Leading global resourcing and negotiations for IT services and technologies.
Responsibilities:
- 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 resourcing from global 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.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Management or related field required.
- Minimum of 7 years with 5 years experience required, to include Supply Management, Procurement or IT Business Office roles responsible for IT supplier or category management.
- Solid leadership skills that include advanced collaboration and influence skills.
- Ability to develop business cases, presentations & stakeholder communications.
- Information Technology experience overseeing IT services and suppliers.
- Strong working knowledge of the IT marketplace, terminology and industry norms.
- Demonstrable experience with application development and managed services agreements and statements of work.
- Demonstrable experience with off-shore or near-shore service providers and agreements in global regions such as Latin America, South America, Asia-Pacific, or Eastern Europe.
- Adept negotiation skills in pay for performance and shared risk allocation in agreements.
- Strong problem-solving, collaboration and influence skills.
- Ability to lead cross-functional business meetings, develop and deliver clear presentations and communicate with stakeholders.
- Solid business acumen coupled with understanding of business structures, processes, and information flow in an organization with multiple lines of business.
- Use of Red Cross Supply Management tools such as Coupa.
Benefits:
- Medical, Dental Vision plans
- Health Spending Accounts & Flexible Spending Accounts
- PTO: Starting at 19 days a year; based on type of job and tenure
- Holidays: 11 paid holidays comprised of six core holidays and five floating holidays
- 401K with up to 6% match
- Paid Family Leave
- Employee Assistance
- Disability and Insurance: Short + Long Term
- Service Awards and recognition
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