About the job
Apply your broad experience in the procurement of Real Estate and Facilities Services team while interacting with Red Hat's Leadership and Executive teams. The Red Hat Finance team is looking for a Senior Global Category Leader to join us in Raleigh, NC or remotely. In this role, you will work as part of the Global Procurement team, which is organized into major spend categories including IT like Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud, Hardware (HW), or Telco, Marketing, Corporate Services, Real Estate and Facilities Services, e.g., Global Workplace Solutions, and Travel teams. You'll be responsible for engaging Red Hat's stakeholders, setting procurement strategies, leading strategic sourcing initiatives, negotiating contracts, and managing strategic supplier relationships. As a Senior Global Category Leader, your work will involve developing strategic category management strategies and optimizing the purchase of goods and services for the Global Workspace Solutions team expenses including teams like Real Estate, Facilities Operations, Professional Services, etc. Your success will be measured against business metrics like cost savings and avoidance, stakeholder management, supplier management, and contract negotiation and management. Successful applicants must reside in a state where Red Hat is registered to do business.
What you will do

• Partner with stakeholders and budget owners to support business requirements and develop a strategic global category strategy
• Support stakeholders spend requirements and priorities by guiding procurement initiatives
• Establish preferred suppliers and ensure that proper policies are used
• Gain knowledge of supplier markets, supply risk levels, assess supplier capabilities, and help define and improve company's local, regional, and global panel of suppliers
• Select supplier sources by guiding competitive sourcing activities
• Form contracts with selected suppliers to negotiate optimal terms and conditions
• Establish consumption-based engagement models and operationalize negotiated contracts
• Develop a strategy and approach to optimize key supplier partnerships and simplify the buying approach with rate cards
• Define supplier performance indicators, build and communicate related dashboards, and manage supplier performance for key suppliers via stakeholder feedback and performance-based metrics
• Ensure that appropriate business controls are in place to reduce risk and protect Red Hat

What you will bring

• Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain, or a related field; MBA is a plus
• 10+ years of procurement experience in procurement or strategic sourcing
• Solid analytical skills in performing bid analysis, cost analysis, fair-value analysis, and scenario modeling
• Complex problem-solving skills with development and implementation of creative solutions
• Solid experience with contract negotiations
• Experience building solid relationships with a diverse set of stakeholders and suppliers
• Record of successful persuasion of wide range of stakeholders
• Experience leading multi-disciplined projects with minimal supervision
• Experience presenting complex ideas to management in a simplified manner
• Customer service-oriented with the ability to work well within a team
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

About Red Hat
Red Hat is the world's leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver reliable and high-performing Linux, hybrid cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Red Hat helps customers integrate new and existing IT applications, develop cloud-native applications, standardize on our industry-leading operating system, and automate, secure, and manage complex environments. Award-winning support, training, and consulting services make Red Hat a trusted adviser to the Fortune 500. As a strategic partner to cloud providers, system integrators, application vendors, customers, and open source communities, Red Hat can help organizations prepare for the digital future.
Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible Spending Account - healthcare and dependent care
• Health Savings Account - high deductible medical plan
• Retirement 401(k) with employer match
• Paid time off and holidays
• Paid parental leave plans for all new parents
• Leave benefits including disability, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave
• Additional benefits including employee stock purchase plan, family planning reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, transportation expense account, employee assistance program, and more!

Note: These benefits are only applicable to full time, permanent associates at Red Hat located in the United States.