Category Manager – IT & Ancillary Services
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The Category Manager – IT & Ancillary Services establishes and executes strategic sourcing and category management strategies across an enterprise IT and ancillary services portfolio. The role builds category strategies, manages the end-to-end sourcing lifecycle, and partners with functional leadership to deliver financial and operational value. Functional leaders retain authority over legal judgments, technical specifications, cybersecurity decisions, and HSE standards.
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Job Description
The Category Manager – IT & Ancillary Services establishes and executes strategic sourcing and category management strategies across client enterprise-wide Information Technology and Ancillary Services portfolio, including Corporate Services, Legal, Human Resources, Marketing, and Health, Safety & Environmental (HSE). The role transforms decentralized purchasing into a strategic, commercially optimized category framework that supports growth, scalability, financial performance, and risk management. This leader manages the end-to-end sourcing lifecycle and partners closely with functional leadership.
The Category Manager serves as a strategic business partner and commercial leader, building category strategies from the ground up and delivering sustainable financial and operational value. Functional leaders retain authority over legal judgments, technical specifications, cybersecurity decisions, and HSE standards.
Skills and Requirements
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Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Finance, IT, or related field; equivalent experience considered.
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4–6+ years of progressive strategic sourcing, procurement, category management, or supplier management experience.
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Experience with indirect spend, IT procurement, professional services, and corporate services.
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Proven complex contract negotiation, cross-functional leadership, and supplier risk management.
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Strong financial analysis, TCO, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
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Experience building category management programs in high-growth organizations.
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Energy, infrastructure, industrial, or technology-driven business experience.
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Enterprise software licensing, SaaS negotiation, cybersecurity and data privacy familiarity.
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NetSuite or comparable ERP; CPSM, CSCP, or CIPS certification.
We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to [email protected].
How this job compares
Set against the 516 open Category Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Texas median$109–160K/yr42 salary ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 62 open Category Manager jobs in Texas and 516 across the US. 6% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- Category Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 5 to 7 years (459 postings).
- Education
- 344 of the 516 open Category Manager jobs (67%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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