Category Manager II , Indirect Procurement - Corporate Services

The Gap • Folsom, CA

8h

About The Position

This is a high-impact role with Gap Inc., reporting to the Director of Procurement, Professional Services. At Gap Inc., great ideas need great partners. This role shapes how we find, select, and grow those partners across our professional services landscape – designing smarter ways to buy, unlocking value, and protecting the business as we move fast. You’ll turn ambiguous needs into clear strategies, then lead sourcing, negotiations, and supplier performance to deliver results that leaders can feel. You will be the architect of category strategies that balance cost efficiency, innovation, and risk mitigation. This role is part of Gap Inc. Procurement’s broader NextGen transformation journey, and this is your opportunity to shape strategies in categories that are evolving rapidly, and influence stakeholders at all levels. This role will oversee Professional Services categories such as Consulting, Corporate Travel & Events, Risk Management, and Legal Services. You will also have the opportunity to explore, support, and eventually take ownership of additional categories and get involved in activities central to Gap’s NextGen journey – broadening your expertise and cross-functional relationships, and positioning yourself for continued career growth at Gap Inc.

Requirements

• Passionate about procurement with experience in category management within a global organization.
• Not afraid to question status quo by asking “What If” and “Why Not”, and willing to get to the root cause of a problem, co-creating solutions, and executing them.
• Strong work ethic and accountability bringing discipline, ownership, and follow- through to every project, balancing attention to detail with a drive to deliver outcomes.
• Results-oriented with an ability to navigate an ambiguous environment to achieve high levels of performance and deliver sustainable results.
• Excellent written and oral communicator with the ability to lead with or without authority to influence stakeholders at various organizational levels and drive decision-making.

Nice To Haves

• Preference for candidates with demonstrated expertise in Payments or Corporate Travel, or those with strong Technology or Management Consulting background.

Responsibilities

• Drive value – Execute category strategies, and achieve value targets (P&L, Revenue, Capital and Non-P&L) for the categories, as applicable. Create and manage a multi-year pipeline of projects that will deliver value year over year.
• Manage categories – Collaborate on developing actionable multi-year sourcing strategies and codify them into category playbooks that guide execution across the business. Own supplier relationships (performance management and contract negotiations).
• Build and strengthen strategic relationships – Partner with senior internal stakeholders across functions, procurement colleagues, and suppliers to drive results and facilitate complex change management across Gap Inc.
• Leverage procurement technology and advanced sourcing capabilities – Actively promote a competitive bid culture by applying advanced sourcing levers. Actively seek and apply industry best practices and innovative solutions to advance value creation. Leverage advanced digital tools and analytics (dashboards, AI- powered spend insights, eAuctions, CLM platforms) to drive sourcing decisions and value creation. Conduct category segmentation and supplier profiling to enable opportunity mining.
• Be a thought partner – Collaborate with peers and business stakeholders to identify additional white-space growth and efficiency improvement opportunities and devise sourcing strategies to execute them.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed