One Tech Engineering is searching for a Category Manager for a position located in either Minneapolis, Minnesota, or Denver, Colorado. The Category Manager will handle contract negotiations, vendor management, and sourcing for complex technology projects.
The candidate must be a US citizen or hold a green card. The candidate should have 10+ years of IT sourcing/contracting experience.
Category Manager Responsibilities:
- Partner with IT stakeholders on transformation initiatives.
- Lead contract negotiations and manage vendor relationships.
- Provide support for ongoing projects with minimal ramp-up time.
- Participate in vendor and client site visits as needed.
- Drives category strategy working with the business for multiple complex, high business impact categories.
- Responsible for the development and effective execution of sourcing strategy for critical categories.
- Plans for and leads competitive sourcing events and other activities in support of category strategies.
- Develops effective negotiation strategies and conducts negotiations with their category suppliers to achieve category and business objectives.
- Manages risk mitigation efforts and oversees on-going monitoring activities.
- Forms and executes contracts with critical suppliers.
- 10+ years of IT sourcing/contracting experience.
- Experience with SAP contracting and utility-based IT projects.
- Previous utility industry experience is preferred.
- Negotiation and vendor management.
- Customer Information Systems (CIS) background preferred.
- Wind contracts and regulatory knowledge.
- Multi-vendor environment contracting experience is a nice to have.
- Systems integrator services experience is a nice to have.
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