IT Category Manager

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Where is the work:

Monday to Thursday, work onsite with your colleagues. Fridays, choose your work location, balancing what your work requires.

What's in it for you:

Trane Technologies is hiring an IT Category Manager. This is a critical role on our Procurement team, with high visibility to enterprise leadership and great potential for career growth. The role’s primary responsibilities include category strategy development for a range of IT Categories including IT Services and Software. We are looking for a candidate with category management experience willing to learn and drive management of the category to reduce risk, cost, and ambiguity for our internal customers.

What you will do:

• Manage a portfolio of projects, contracts, and internal business partners to deliver business value and mitigate contractual risk related to IT Services and Software.

• Negotiation and management of IT Services and Software contracts of varying complexity, including financial, contractual (Terms and Conditions), and commercial terms. Lead the negotiation process for IT Services and Software contracts, including engaging with suppliers, functional leaders, legal team, subject matter experts, executive leadership, and the business sectors, as required. Manage contract lifecycle and compliance, to ensure supply continuity, and deliver best total value through RFx activities and supplier selection activities.

• Collaboration: Identify, engage and align with internal stakeholders to capture category requirements and ensure supplier qualification and quality;

• Strategy : Develop and Execute detailed IT Services/Software short and long-term category strategy that expands on the current Preferred Supplier Program; segmenting spend and buying channel based on the business needs and effective procurement principles.

• Risk Management: Actively monitor and mitigate supplier risk including financial, capacity, quality, and compliance.

• Cost Management: Responsible for delivering category productivity and cost avoidance through price, value analysis (VA) or continuous improvement projects.

• Supplier Management : Oversee Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) and regular supplier reviews for all strategic suppliers within category to meet program Quality/Cost/Delivery targets.

What you will bring:

• 5+ years of Experience in negotiation and management of IT Services and Software, or 5+ years of contract management and/or category management negotiation experience with a desire to learn and lead IT Services/Software category management for a global organization.

• Bachelor’s Degree

• 5+ years of procurement / sourcing, sales, IT, or contract management experience with large-scale, complex, and/or regional/global categories of spend.

• Demonstrated success in assessing, negotiating, and managing vendors; leveraging cross-functional teams.

• Collaboration, facilitation, consultation and conflict resolution skills; you will be a trusted business partner and engage both internal and external stakeholders/customers, and we are seeking the ability to collaborate and influence within a highly matrixed environment.

• Professional communication: both verbal and written are required.

Annual Base Salary Range or Hourly Base Pay Range:

$97,406.66 - $135,834.99

Compensation Type:

Salary

Incentive Eligible:

Yes

Sales Commission Eligible:

No

Disclaimer : We strive to provide competitive compensation for this position, tailored to a variety of factors. The actual compensation will depend on elements such as seniority, merit, geographic location, education, experience, travel requirements, and union designation. Our compensation range is generally based on the national average for the country. Additionally, benefits may vary depending on the region, business alignment, union involvement, and employee status.

Thrive at work and at home:

• Benefits kick in on DAY ONE for you and your family, including health insurance and holistic wellness programs that include generous incentives – WE DARE TO CARE!

• Family building benefits include fertility coverage and adoption/surrogacy assistance.

• Paid time off includes up to 15 vacation days, paid holidays, sick leave, and additional options to support volunteer and parental leave.

• 401K match up, educational and training opportunities through company programs along with tuition assistance and student debt support.

Disclaimer: Benefit offerings may vary by site as well as Collective Bargaining Agreements and local/state regulations

Safety Sensitive Role:

No

The company designates certain roles as Safety Sensitive. Safety Sensitive roles may require that you pass additional drug screening.

We offer competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits and programs. We are an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, pregnancy, age, marital status, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any legally protected status.