Senior Global Indirect Sourcing Category Manager

Fortune Brands • Deerfield, IL

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About The Position

As the Senior Global IT Sourcing Category Manager, you will serve as a strategic partner to IT, Digital, Cybersecurity, and business leaders, co-developing sourcing strategies that enable technology outcomes while optimizing total cost of ownership. This role is highly collaborative focused on building trust, aligning priorities, and influencing decisions across a global, matrixed organization. You will work side‑by‑side with stakeholders to shape sourcing approaches that balance cost, risk, innovation, and speed, supporting both day‑to‑day operational needs and long‑term technology transformation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience.
• 5+ years of experience in indirect procurement, with strong emphasis on IT sourcing and stakeholder partnership.
• Proven experience working collaboratively with IT leadership, and functional teams.
• Hands‑on experience sourcing key IT categories such as software, SaaS, cloud, infrastructure, telecom, cybersecurity, and IT services.
• Demonstrated ability to negotiate and redline complex supplier contracts, including software, SaaS, cloud, and IT services agreements.
• Strong understanding of IT commercial constructs (subscriptions, licensing, consumption-based pricing, managed services).
• Experience facilitating cross‑functional discussions and aligning diverse perspectives into shared outcomes.
• Willingness to travel domestically as needed.

Nice To Haves

• Demonstrated success as a trusted business partner, not just a transactional sourcing lead.
• Strong communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to influence without authority.
• Procurement Certification
• Advanced experience negotiating and redlining complex IT contracts, with the ability to manage a high volume of concurrent agreements and drive timely execution across multiple stakeholders.
• Strategic, curious, and outcome oriented, with attention to both relationships and results.
• High integrity, collaborative mindset, and strong work ethic.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and evolving technology landscapes.
• Quick learner with interest in emerging IT trends and sourcing models.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with IT and business stakeholders to understand technology roadmaps, architectural standards, demand drivers, and future capabilities.
• Co‑develop and execute IT category strategies covering software, SaaS, cloud, infrastructure, telecom, cybersecurity, and IT services.
• Facilitate ongoing dialogue between Procurement, IT, Finance, Legal, and Risk to ensure sourcing decisions are well aligned, transparent, and sustainable.
• Build and manage a jointly prioritized sourcing pipeline, ensuring stakeholders buy in from concept through implementation.
• Lead RFIs, RFQs, and RFPs in partnership with IT teams, aligning commercial outcomes with technical and operational requirements.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to stakeholders by providing market insights, supplier intelligence, and recommendations on sourcing and commercial models.
• Lead end‑to‑end commercial negotiations, including direct contract redlining and collaboration with Legal, Finance, and stakeholders to resolve complex terms related to pricing, risk, liability, SLAs, data privacy, and compliance.
• Manage a high volume of concurrent contracts and sourcing initiatives, maintaining momentum across multiple negotiations and ensuring timely execution without sacrificing quality or stakeholder alignment.
• Balance value delivery across cost optimization, supplier performance, innovation, flexibility, and risk mitigation.
• Support supplier relationships through collaborative governance, performance reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Promote adoption of best practice IT procurement processes while remaining flexible to evolving business and technology needs.
• Encourage knowledge sharing and continuous improvement across procurement and IT communities.

Benefits

• employees will participate in either an annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance, or a role-based sales incentive plan
• robust health plans
• a market-leading 401(k) program with a company contribution
• product discounts
• flexible time off benefits
• adoption benefits
• We offer numerous ERGs (Employee Resource Groups) to foster a sense of belonging for all associates.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees