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Category Manager

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Microsoft Corporation

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United States , Washington D.C.

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Purchasing

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Salary:

96500.00 - 188400.00 USD / Year
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Job Description:

The CO+I Supply Chain, Operations and Unified Technology (“SCOUT”) procurement team is responsible for establishing a flexible, efficient and reliable supply chain that can support a portfolio of complex datacenter operations. We are looking to fill a critical role of Category Manager for data center operations Supply Chain.

Job Responsibility:

  • Define and execute a sourcing strategy for one or more complex purchasing categories within datacenter critical environment equipment maintenance and services to ensure optimal costs and a sufficient continuity of supplies
  • Share industry and category expertise across stakeholder teams to develop and execute sourcing strategies
  • Integrate business specifications into sourcing events, define and manage supplier scorecard criteria, coordinate performance reviews, and drive corrective actions
  • Manage contract and pricing negotiations for a single purchasing category
  • Influence senior managers, adopt practices, and apply market intelligence to enable quality execution, while educating stakeholders to ensure compliance, adapting policy as needed to mitigate risk
  • Drive consistency, timeliness, and quality of deliverables, ensuring stakeholders are aware of Service Level Agreements
  • Process or support stakeholder procurement requests for CE equipment maintenance and services via engagement
  • Execute contracts and comply with established control processes, identifying roadblocks and taking action to resolve them as needed
  • Develop pricing and negotiation strategies, gaining senior executive support and mitigating contract disagreements
  • Drive early business engagements for complex business areas and collaborate with suppliers and leads on onboarding processes

Requirements:

  • Master's Degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Data Analytics, Business, Finance or related field AND 3+ years experience in data science/analytics, finance, project management, supply chain, and/or operation
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Data Analytics, Business, Finance OR related field AND 4+ years experience in data science/analytics, finance, project management, supply chain, and/or operations OR equivalent experience
  • Strong commercial understanding and experience driving and developing contracts on key categories (General Contractors, Mechanical & Electrical Equipment, Power Generation, Construction Services, Operations Services)
  • Experience of collaborating with key stakeholders to jointly develop and implement category strategies to drive efficiencies, improve performance delivery and reduce costs
  • Experience of developing and enhancing supplier relationships
  • Data driven mindset to support continuous improvement and accurate reporting
  • Growth mindset to explore new technologies, new ways of working and new contracting methods
  • Knowledge of data center industry and experience managing a variety of project delivery methods - ability to lead a project team in defining risk and developing the appropriate contracting and compensation approach
  • Technical ability to write contracts, ability to set up sourcing plans and negotiation strategies and execute them
  • Excellent communicator that can interact with diverse groups across organizational levels
  • Familiarity with common process improvement methodologies (Lean, Six-Sigma, etc.) and ability to facilitate change management
  • Ability to implement new processes and get buy in from a cross functional team
  • Category Management experience in one or more key categories including General Contractors, Mechanical & Electrical Equipment, Construction Services, Operations Services
  • Skilled project management experience plus exceptional communication and influencing skills
  • Experience with Global and regional planning and development
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
  • This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
April 11, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Hybrid work
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