[Hiring] Global Category Manager @Agilent Technologies

Role Description

The Professional Services Category Manager is responsible for leading Agilent’s global sourcing strategy, supplier management, and commercial governance for Professional Services and Finance categories. The portfolio includes:

• Management consulting
• Financial and audit consulting
• Key strategic transformation initiatives
• Outsourced services
• Engineering and technical services
• Research and development support
• Clinical and laboratory services
• Other specialized project resources

Operating within Global Indirect Procurement and the Corporate Services team, this role partners with senior leaders across the enterprise to:

• Optimize cost
• Improve supplier performance
• Mitigate risk
• Enable enterprise priorities

The role leads highly visible, complex sourcing initiatives; shapes category direction; influences executive stakeholders across regions; and serves as a procurement subject-matter expert. Success requires:

• Exceptional influencing skills
• Strong stakeholder management
• Advanced negotiation skills
• A proven ability to deliver results

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Finance, Economics, Engineering, or a related discipline
• 10+ years of progressive experience in strategic sourcing, category management, or a consulting background
• Demonstrated experience managing Professional Services, consulting, outsourcing, or other complex indirect service categories
• Proven success leading high-value sourcing initiatives and complex commercial negotiations in a global, matrixed organization
• Strong stakeholder-influencing, analytical, negotiation, and executive communication capabilities
• Ability to work independently, navigate ambiguity, manage competing priorities, and drive decisions without direct authority

Requirements

• Master’s degree, MBA, CPSM, CIPS, CPM, or an equivalent professional qualification (preferred)
• Experience in life sciences, diagnostics, technology, or another highly regulated global industry (preferred)
• Experience implementing preferred supplier programs, managed services, or supplier performance programs (preferred)
• Experience with eSourcing, spend analytics, procurement reporting, and contract lifecycle management platforms (preferred)

Benefits

• Full-time weekly schedule
• Option to work remotely
• Full-time equivalent pay range: $133,120.00 - $249,600.00/yr plus eligibility for bonus, stock, and benefits

Company Description

Agilent Technologies, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity and merit-based employer that values individuals of all backgrounds at all levels. All individuals, regardless of personal characteristics, are encouraged to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to:

• Sex
• Pregnancy
• Race
• Religion or religious creed
• Color
• Gender
• Gender identity
• Gender expression
• National origin
• Ancestry
• Physical or mental disability
• Medical condition
• Genetic information
• Marital status
• Registered domestic partner status
• Age
• Sexual orientation
• Military or veteran status
• Protected veteran status
• Any other basis protected by federal, state, local law, ordinance, or regulation

Agilent Technologies, Inc., is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive workplace where everyone is welcome and strives to support candidates with disabilities.