Category Manager – IT

🕒 August 14

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

💻 IT Support

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Cambium Learning Group

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2009

📚 Education

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

Education • Artificial Intelligence

Cambium Learning Group is a company focused on providing essential educational solutions through a family of companies. They create experiences designed to help educators and students succeed by leveraging technology, including artificial intelligence and machine learning. Cambium Learning Group's brands are among the most respected in the edtech sector, supporting meaningful work and innovation in education. Their commitment is reflected in their dedication to making every learning moment valuable and impactful.

📋 Description

• Own category strategy for assigned IT spend areas, including SaaS and software, cloud infrastructure, end-user computing and endpoint services, and telecom and network • Own the renewal pipeline, track expirations, assign ownership, build engagement strategies, and execute early to preserve leverage • Maintain market and vendor intelligence and use it to shape category plans • Own the vendor framework, including preferred and strategic vendor designations, consolidation targets, and portfolio standards • Establish spend baselines, savings targets, leverage, alternatives, and business cases before vendor engagement • Lead competitive sourcing events end to end through requirements, RFx, evaluation, shortlisting, and award • Negotiate pricing, terms, escalators, termination and exit rights, SLAs, service credits, and liability using a total-cost-of-ownership approach • Build spend and TCO analyses, normalize quotes, reconcile usage and license counts, and model multi-year commitments • Validate and record final savings and cost avoidance against established baselines • Drive contract execution with Legal, including commercial redlines and Information Security and data privacy reviews • Coordinate third-party risk intake and maintain sourcing intake and pipeline documentation • Align stakeholders on requirements, timing, tradeoffs, and sourcing strategy • Advise technology leaders and business units on vendor options, commercial structures, timing, and tradeoffs • Document lessons learned, vendor insights, benchmarks, and negotiation approaches for the sourcing knowledge base

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, category management, vendor management, or a related commercial role • Experience with IT, software, SaaS, or technology services categories • Proven ability to lead vendor negotiations directly and develop leverage-based negotiation strategies • Ability to challenge supplier assumptions and secure measurable improvements across pricing, terms, risk, and flexibility • Working knowledge of commercial contract terms and comfort partnering with Legal on redlines, negotiation positions, and contract risk tradeoffs • Strong spend and data analysis skills, including building and defending TCO and multi-year commitment models • Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and/or Google Sheets • Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with Finance, Legal, Information Security, IT, and business stakeholders • Organized, systems-minded work habits and comfort using procurement intake, sourcing, or work management platforms such as Zip, Coupa, Ariba, or Jira • Exceptional written and verbal communication, including making data-dense recommendations easy to act on • Reliable cable or fiber-optic broadband internet connection with minimum speeds of 10 Mbps download and 5 Mbps upload for remote work • Active participation in video-based interviews and ongoing virtual meetings with camera on • Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain, Operations, or related field is listed as a preferred qualification, not a requirement

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote First work environment with flexibility to balance work with life • Reimbursement to help cover the cost of setting up your home or remote office • Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities