Category Manager

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🔥 37 minutes ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $120k - $150k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🛒 Procurement

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Chainalysis Inc.

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501 - 1000 employees

🔌 API

💳 Fintech

🔒 Cybersecurity

💰 $170M Series F on 2022-05

API • Fintech • Cybersecurity

Chainalysis is the leading blockchain data platform that provides blockchain intelligence solutions for various sectors, including law enforcement, regulators, financial institutions, and centralized exchanges. The company helps organizations tackle crypto challenges, ensure compliance with regulations, and mitigate risks associated with cryptocurrency transactions through its innovative solutions and insights. With an R&D hub known as Chainalysis Labs, the company is dedicated to advancing blockchain intelligence and supporting a safer digital economy.

📋 Description

• Build and maintain a complete view of SaaS and software applications, owners, contracts, renewal dates, spend, license counts, and utilization • Identify software overlap, redundancy, and shadow IT and develop consolidation plans • Manage the renewal calendar and engage stakeholders 120–180 days ahead of renewals • Right-size licenses and negotiate co-terms, multi-year pricing, price protections, and flexible true-down rights • Partner with IT, Security, and business owners on platform-versus-point-solution decisions and tool retirement or replacement • Establish intake and approval workflows for new software purchases covering duplication, security, privacy, and cost • Develop and execute category strategies across assigned indirect spend categories • Lead RFI, RFP, and RFQ processes from requirements gathering through vendor selection, negotiation, and award • Negotiate commercial terms and partner with Legal on SLAs, liability, data protection, termination, and renewals • Manage supplier performance and risk through business reviews, scorecards, due diligence, and coordination with Legal, Privacy, and Security • Apply procurement policy and approval requirements, including ensuring an approved PO is in place before signature • Maintain supplier and contract records for audit readiness • Report spend, savings, sourcing pipeline, and supplier risk to Procurement leadership and Finance using agreed methodologies

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in procurement, sourcing, or category management • Meaningful ownership of SaaS or software spend • Demonstrated measurable savings through vendor consolidation, license optimization, and negotiation • Experience negotiating SaaS and software agreements, including subscription terms, usage metrics, renewals, true-ups, and price protections • Working knowledge of commercial contract terms and ability to partner with Legal • Strong analytical skills, including spend analysis, utilization analysis, and business cases in Excel or similar tools • Ability to influence engineers, executives, and budget owners and build cross-functional alignment without formal authority • Clear written and verbal communication skills • Experience working at a high-growth technology company or a company preparing for, or recently through, an IPO (nice to have) • Experience using SaaS management, spend-visibility, procurement, or ERP platforms (nice to have) • Experience managing cloud, data, or infrastructure categories (nice to have) • Experience supporting security, privacy, or third-party risk reviews (nice to have) • CPSM, CIPS, or equivalent professional certification (nice to have) • Legally authorized to work for any employer in the United States without restrictions

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity • Bonus • Remote work • AI tools, workflows, and space to experiment • Diversity and inclusion commitment • Interview accommodations for disabilities • Voluntary and anonymous EEOC survey participation that does not affect employment opportunity or terms • Applicant Privacy Policy protection

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