Category Manager
LeadStack Inc.Job Title: Sr Category Manager, Procurement
Location: Fort Worth, Texas 76155 – Onsite
Duration: 02 months Contract to Hire
Pay Range: $48/hr – 52/hr on W2
Must Have Skills:
• 3+ years related work experience - Sourcing experience, specifically for indirect categories (not IT or Contingent Labor),
• Basic financial analysis / cost savings (Excel),
• Strong project management skills,
• Exce
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llent problem solving skills, customer service, and communication.
· This position will require to be onsite 5 days a week in SV8.
This is a contract position with the opportunity to convert to FTE.
Interview Details: 2 interview rounds - 1st interview will be 30 minutes virtually through Teams video. 2nd interview will be onsite.
Description:
The Professional Services Category is part of Procurement organization and manages end-to-end sourcing for Contact Centers, Consulting Services, Benefits, Contingent Labor, Marketing, Legal, and Financial Services.
The Category Manager/Sr Category Manager plays a pivotal role in developing and implementing sourcing strategies, leading contract negotiations, optimizing stakeholder engagement, and driving vendor value creation. The responsibilities range from building relationships with internal partners and vendors, leading sourcing events that deliver measurable savings & improvements, and navigating the complexities of contracting, financial analysis, risk, legal, and regulatory requirements.
Why you'll love this job
· Join a growing, high-performing team of Strategic Sourcing Professionals with a passion for continuous improvement
· Work alongside highly driven, energetic, and collaborative team members
· Develop strategies that achieve cost control, cost reduction, and cost containment targets
· Expand your professional skill set by partnering with cross-functional teams on high-impact projects
· Engage with senior leadership on key sourcing and transformation projects
· Enhance your procurement expertise by utilizing a mix of critical skills - analytics, relationship building, collaboration, and project management
· Build a strong professional network by engaging with vendors and internal stakeholders
· Never have a boring day at work again!
What you'll do
· Lead end-to-end strategic sourcing activities, including category strategy development, RFx execution, supplier evaluation, market research, negotiations, and vendor performance monitoring.
· Manage sourcing activity across the benefits vendor ecosystem, including medical carriers, PBMs, TPAs/ASO administrators, stop-loss carriers, brokers/consultants, benefits administration platforms, wellness vendors, voluntary benefits providers, and specialty point solutions.
· Run structured RFIs, RFPs, RFQs, renewals, benchmarks, and market checks that support fair supplier comparisons, documented decision-making, competitive leverage, and defensible sourcing outcomes.
· Negotiate commercial and contractual terms, including pricing, administrative fees, rebates, guarantees, SLAs, implementation obligations, audit rights, data-access rights, market-check language, termination terms, confidentiality, and renewal protections.
· Analyze supplier proposals, claims/utilization trends, renewal projections, administrative fees, PEPM/PMPM structures, PBM economics, rebate arrangements, stop-loss terms, service levels, and total cost of ownership to support data-driven levers for negotiation.
· Deliver hard savings, cost avoidance, value protection, and working-capital improvements through competitive sourcing, contract optimization, vendor consolidation, fee transparency, market checks, rebate and performance guarantee improvements, and process optimization.
· Partner with Legal, Finance, consultants, IT/security, and business stakeholders to align sourcing strategies, contract terms, implementation plans, financial impacts, and risk considerations.
· Support compliance-aware vendor management by recognizing when ERISA fiduciary concepts, DOL service-provider