Senior Manager of Category Management

Principal Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Define and maintain category strategy standards, templates, and playbooks to improve consistency and strategic rigor across all categories.
• Support category leaders in developing and pressure-testing category strategies to ensure alignment with business priorities.
• Elevate strategy quality by embedding market intelligence, value levers, and structured decision frameworks.
• Develop and manage a standardized value framework (savings, cost avoidance, working capital, risk mitigation, innovation).
• Partner with Finance and Category teams to ensure consistent value-tracking inputs and benefit attribution.
• Strengthen initiative hygiene and pipeline discipline to improve visibility and comparability of value delivery.
• Establish best-practice sourcing methodologies, including negotiation strategies, cost modeling, and supplier selection frameworks.
• Curate and disseminate market benchmarks and cost-driver insights to enhance sourcing outcomes.
• Continuously refine sourcing playbooks to reflect lessons learned and market shifts.
• Provide prioritized advisory support to category teams on high-impact initiatives rather than open-ended execution support.
• Coach category managers on advanced strategic sourcing and value-creation techniques.
• Enable categories to independently execute stronger strategies through capability transfer.
• Design and deliver training, playbooks, and knowledge-sharing forums to build enterprise category management maturity.
• Institutionalize learning to reduce dependency on ad hoc support.
• Collaborate with digital and analytics teams to improve data, tools, and reporting.
• Support rollout of key initiatives (e.g., sourcing platforms, tail spend, new processes).
• Partner with Governance, Policy, and Process leaders to ensure compliance with governance frameworks related to sourcing and category management.

Minimum Education And Experience

• 7–10+ years of experience in procurement, category management, and/or strategic sourcing with demonstrated category strategy leadership.
• Proven track record of delivering measurable value using structured sourcing and category methodologies (e.g., total cost of ownership, cost modeling, supplier-led innovation).
• Experience operating in a matrixed environment with strong stakeholder influence across functions.

Physical Requirements And Environmental Factors

• Position is mostly sedentary but may require occasional moving to other offices or buildings.
• May need to move light equipment or supplies from one place to another.
• May need to access files, supplies and equipment.
• Work activity is in an office, open-partitioned, cubicle environment.

Pay

The salary range for this position is $128,000 - $192,000 per year, based on experience and qualifications with annual bonus available (variable depending on performance).

Benefits

• Medical/Rx
• 401(k) with employer match after 1 year
• Critical illness, accident insurance
• Dental
• Vision
• Life insurance
• Optional group life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability protection
• Flexible spending accounts and paid time off