IT Category Manager

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About the role

Trane Technologies is hiring an IT Category Manager. This is a critical role on our Procurement team, with high visibility to enterprise leadership and great potential for career growth. The role’s primary responsibilities include category strategy development for a range of IT Categories including IT Services and Software. We are looking for a candidate with category management experience willing to learn and drive management of the category to reduce risk, cost, and ambiguity for our internal customers.

Schedule

Monday to Thursday, work onsite with your colleagues. Fridays, choose your work location, balancing what your work requires.

Responsibilities

• Manage a portfolio of projects, contracts, and internal business partners to deliver business value and mitigate contractual risk related to IT Services and Software.
• Negotiation and management of IT Services and Software contracts of varying complexity, including financial, contractual (Terms and Conditions), and commercial terms.
• Lead the negotiation process for IT Services and Software contracts, including engaging with suppliers, functional leaders, legal team, subject matter experts, executive leadership, and the business sectors, as required.
• Manage contract lifecycle and compliance, to ensure supply continuity, and deliver best total value through RFx activities and supplier selection activities.
• Collaboration: Identify, engage and align with internal stakeholders to capture category requirements and ensure supplier qualification and quality.
• Strategy: Develop and Execute detailed IT Services/Software short and long-term category strategy that expands on the current Preferred Supplier Program; segmenting spend and buying channel based on the business needs and effective procurement principles.
• Risk Management: Actively monitor and mitigate supplier risk including financial, capacity, quality, and compliance.
• Cost Management: Responsible for delivering category productivity and cost avoidance through price, value analysis (VA) or continuous improvement projects.
• Supplier Management: Oversee Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) and regular supplier reviews for all strategic suppliers within category to meet program Quality/Cost/Delivery targets.

Requirements

• 5+ years of Experience in negotiation and management of IT Services and Software, or 5+ years of contract management and/or category management negotiation experience with a desire to learn and lead IT Services/Software category management for a global organization.
• Bachelor’s Degree
• 5+ years of procurement / sourcing, sales, IT, or contract management experience with large-scale, complex, and/or regional/global categories of spend.
• Demonstrated success in assessing, negotiating, and managing vendors; leveraging cross-functional teams.
• Collaboration, facilitation, consultation and conflict resolution skills; you will be a trusted business partner and engage both internal and external stakeholders/customers, with the ability to collaborate and influence within a highly matrixed environment.
• Professional communication: both verbal and written are required.

Pay

Annual Base Salary Range: $97,406.66 - $135,834.99

Compensation Type: Salary

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