Category Manager IV – Finance & Consultants

Owens & Minor • Remote - Virginia, VA

15d • $100,000 - $130,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Category Manager IV is a senior individual contributor responsible for leading highly complex sourcing, supplier management, and category strategy activities across assigned Indirect Procurement categories. This role independently manages senior stakeholder relationships, develops sourcing strategies, leads negotiations, and provides procurement guidance on market conditions, supplier capabilities, cost drivers, and risk considerations. The Category Manager IV may mentor junior procurement professionals and support best practice development but is not expected to have direct reporting responsibility unless separately assigned. The ideal candidate is a results-driven procurement category manager with deep experience managing Finance and Consulting Services categories. They excel at negotiating consulting, advisory, audit, tax, and financial services agreements; developing category strategies; optimizing supplier portfolios; and delivering sustainable cost reductions while ensuring compliance, risk mitigation, and service excellence. Comfortably operating in highly confidential environments, they effectively manage sensitive initiatives, executive-level projects, and strategic business transformations with discretion, sound judgment, and strong stakeholder management skills.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required; procurement certification preferred.
• 8+ years of procurement, strategic sourcing, supply chain, category management, finance, or related business experience.
• Experience independently managing large, complex, or strategically important Indirect categories.
• Strong experience leading negotiations, sourcing events, supplier evaluations, and contract support activities

Nice To Haves

• procurement certification preferred

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute multiyear category strategies that support business objectives and procurement value targets. Responsible for development and actionable opportunity pipelines.
• Develop actionable strategic sourcing plans, initiative pipelines, and category roadmaps for assigned Indirect categories.
• Monitor and utilize market intelligence, supplier segmentation, and business demand patterns, and risk mitigation plans to inform sourcing strategy.
• Execute category strategies effectively to show strategic sourcing ownership of spend in consulting, legal, audit, tax, engineering and financial advisory services categories
• Lead end-to-end sourcing events, including stakeholder alignment, supplier selection, RFP/RFQ execution, analysis, negotiations, and award recommendations.
• Develop negotiation strategies that address commercial value, service expectations, risk, contract flexibility, and supplier performance.
• Partner with Legal, Finance, Compliance, and business stakeholders to support contract review and business decision-making.
• Manage key supplier relationships and support supplier performance reviews, issue resolution, and continuous improvement efforts.
• Deliver annual P&L Reduction and P&L Protection targets through sourcing, negotiation, demand management, supplier optimization, working capital, savings pipeline, benefit validation, and budget impact.
• Track sourcing results, validate benefits with Finance as appropriate, and support leadership reporting.
• Establish preferred supplier programs to aggregate spending with suppliers and professional services governance across functional domains.
• Develop executive stakeholder relationships and drive organizational alignment to position Procurement as a strategic business partner.
• Partner with CFO and supporting org in Finance, General Counsel and other corporate business leaders to ensure early engagement of procurement and visibility at the leadership levels
• Implement a well-coordinated, finance supported spend control tower to provide transparency and impact on functional budgets to the best possible level of granularity
• Lead complex cross-functional initiatives, influencing senior leaders to achieve enterprise objectives and maximize value.
• Champion change management efforts to ensure adoption of procurement strategies, processes, and technologies.
• Balance stakeholder priorities with governance, risk management, and business requirements to support informed decision-making.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement across Procurement and business functions.
• Serve as a procurement subject matter expert for assigned Indirect categories.
• Advise stakeholders on procurement processes, market dynamics, supplier options, and commercial strategy.
• Mentor less experienced Category Managers, Analysts, or sourcing team members as needed.
• Demonstrates a strong ability to leverage digital procurement technologies, data analytics, and process automation to drive business value to improve decision-making and enhance stakeholder outcomes.
• Possess hands-on experience utilizing procurement platforms and analytical tools to support category strategy, sourcing execution, supplier management, and performance reporting.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Plan - Medical, dental, and vision plans start on day one of employment for full-time teammates.
• Educational Assistance - We offer educational assistance to all eligible teammates enrolled in an approved, accredited collegiate program.
• Employer-Paid Life Insurance and Disability - We offer employer-paid life insurance and disability coverage.
• Voluntary Supplemental Programs – We offer additional options to secure your financial future including supplemental life, hospitalization, critical illness, and other insurance programs.
• Support for your Growing Family – Adoption assistance, fertility benefits (in medical plan) and parental leave are available for teammates planning for a family.
• Health Savings Account (HSA) and 401(k) - We offer these voluntary financial programs to help teammates prepare for their future, as well as other voluntary benefits.
• Paid Leave - In addition to sick days and short-term leave, we offer holidays, vacation days, personal days, and additional types of leave – including parental leave.
• Well-Being – Also included in our offering is a Teammate Assistance Program (TAP), Calm Health, Cancer Resources Services, and discount programs – all at no cost to you.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior