Hybrid Senior Category Manager – IT Infrastructure Services

at BD

• Job title: Senior Category Manager – IT Infrastructure Services
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $146,100 - $241,200 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Franklin Lakes, United States

About the role

• Senior Category Manager at BD developing global sourcing strategies and managing supplier relationships. Leading teams to develop sourcing strategies for IT Infrastructure and services based on market needs.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain leading edge global sourcing strategy and appropriate supply base with clear spend governance for assigned IT related category(ies), including IT Infrastructure, hardware, software, network and telecom services.
• Success will largely develop on critical thinking, understanding the market and business needs and ability to influence without authority in a matrixed environment.
• Develop global strategies and manage supplier relationships that represent significant risk to multiple businesses.
• Serve as a strategic advisor, partnering with IT, business, functional, and regional stakeholders to understand requirements and implement global sourcing strategies using a hub-and-spoke model.
• Lead strategic supplier management, including risk, performance, relationship, value delivery, and supplier development.
• Guide global category teams in developing, communicating, and approving sourcing strategies that reflect regional requirements and market conditions and coordinating handoff to regional teams for supplier selection and implementation.
• Plan, negotiate, and contract with suppliers, ensuring agreements meet BD’s global needs—from small to large ($100M) service agreements.
• Develop best in class multi-year roadmaps for savings, value creation, and innovation opportunities based on market intel and business needs.
• Monitor internal customer and supply market changes impacting sourcing strategy.
• Lead supplier selection, RFX development, proposal evaluation, and stakeholder approval, ensuring effective communication of supply base.
• Execute supplier relationship management for key suppliers and oversee global supplier activities.
• Apply source-to-pay processes, including customer-centric support and preferred payment methods.
• Maintain stakeholder relationships globally.
• Develop and maintain risk mitigation plans and ensure supply base compliance with corporate procedures and legal requirements.
• Drive global category team effectiveness mentor regional sourcing associates as needed.
• Drive budget favorability by proactively identifying budget gaps and engaging stakeholders through strategic communications and consensus, resulting in cost savings and value opportunities.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a related field preferred
• Minimum ten years of related work experience, including IT and BPO category strategy and execution
• Strategic sourcing process
• Supplier management
• Negotiation
• Cost management practices
• Supply market knowledge
• Supply market research and analysis
• Contract creation and management
• Ability to influence without direct authority
• Written and verbal communication skills
• Proactivity and growth mindset to drive for results
• Problem solving skills
• Proficiency in AI and newer technologies
• NAPM certification
• APICS certification
• IT and Product development
• Lean Process Effectiveness
• Product Development Process
• Project Management
• Regulatory Systems and Compliance including quality concepts

Benefits

• At BD, we are strongly committed to investing in our associates—their well-being and development, and in providing rewards and recognition opportunities that promote a performance-based culture.
• We demonstrate this commitment by offering a valuable, competitive package of compensation and benefits programs which you can learn more about on our Careers Site under Our Commitment to You .