Title:  Category Manager - IT Software

Title: Category Manager - IT Software

Job ID: 23837

Job Location: Remote, United States

Job Description:

L3Harris’ Corporate Headquarters located in Melbourne, FL is seeking a Lead, Category Management to join our Corporate Indirect Category Management Team. This highly visible, fast-paced, multi-dimensional role drives organizational value by providing strategic and day-to-day leadership across our Enterprise Technology spend.  Key responsibilities include working with executive management and functional stakeholders to lead category management, strategic sourcing, and supplier relationship management. This includes creating and executing category and sourcing strategies aimed at cost reduction, supply simplification, demand management, and ensuring product availability, with a spend responsibility of $500M - $1B. Strong business acumen, advanced negotiation skills, and a deep understanding of global economics and market data are required to forecast trends, reduce costs, and drive continuous improvement. Additionally, this position demands excellent interpersonal and leadership skills to influence change across functions.

This role will report to the Senior Manager, Category Management – Enterprise Technology as part of the Corporate Indirect Category Management Team and our strategic supply chain organization focused on leveraging the company’s scale and deploying best practices that achieve best possible quality, technology, cost and delivery for internal customers.          

• Leverage negotiation strategies and lead negotiations with strategic and preferred suppliers to maximize benefits across L3Harris and its affiliates
• Leverage all procurement levers, including supplier rationalization, negotiations, make vs. buy analyses, vendor managed inventories, inventory reduction programs, and should-costing
• Drive significant cost savings and cost avoidance by proactively identifying new opportunities, such as enterprise discount programs, long-term contracts, and commit to consume models
• Leverage advanced procurement analytics and tools (e.g., cost modeling, price regression analysis, scenario planning, eAuctions, etc.) and drive systems and analytics best practices across the organization
• Develop contractual documentation (Master Service Agreements, Software as a Service, Enterprise Agreements, Statements of Work, etc.) in accordance with established policies and procedures while minimizing contractual risk
• Generate market insights through research and data, industry developments, supply/demand dynamics, emerging technologies, leading-edge practices
• Build, manage, and ensure execution of the category strategy for Enterprise to achieve category goals, achieve business strategies and deliver sustainable category value
• Maintain knowledge of, and experience in, requirements for services and supplier capabilities in Enterprise Technology
• Partner as a subject matter expert (SME) on a continuous basis with internal customers to understand evolving business objectives, expectations and specific requirements 
• Leverage performance targets for Enterprise-wide and category specific strategic goals to monitor performance
• Support regular communications with supply chain leadership and functional teams on category status, challenges, and opportunities
• Maintain relationships with key internal stakeholders to define requirements, identify critical service providers and influence demand
• Assess internal benchmarks, supplier ratings, and enterprise rate cards (NTE values) for all major lines of category spend
• Organize quarterly business reviews with key suppliers and coordinate with Segments to drive supplier accountability
• Assess supplier risks, develop the appropriate contingency plans, and drive inclusion into overall decision-making process

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 9 years of prior relevant experience of demonstrated category management or sourcing experience in categories of IT Software, IT Maintenance, IT Hardware, and/or Telecom
• Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience
• In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Strong interpersonal and planning skills to lead change through influencing abilities
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to present and discuss strategy and analysis
• Ability to own collaboration across Segments and gain executive buy-in
• Experience in Aerospace & Defense (A&D) industry
• Self-managed/motivated – ability to independently set priorities, meet commitments with a desire to continuously improve
• Institute of Supply Management (ISM) certification (CPSM, CPM) or equivalent
• ASCM CLTD certification preferred
• Experience utilizing eSourcing tools (Ariba, Jaggaer)

In compliance with pay transparency requirements, the salary range for this role is $86,000 - $159,500. This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, as final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location. L3Harris also offers a variety of benefits, including health and disability insurance, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, EAP, education assistance, parental leave, paid time off, and company-paid holidays. The specific programs and options available to an employee may vary depending on date of hire, schedule type, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.