Senior Global Indirect Sourcing Category Manager

Company Description

Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc. is an industry-leading home, security and digital products company. We’re focused on exciting opportunities within the home, security and commercial building markets. Our driving purpose is to elevate every life by transforming spaces into havens. We believe our work and our brands can have incredibly positive impacts for not just our business and shareholders, but for people and the planet, too.

At Fortune Brands, we’re building something big. We’re advancing exciting innovations in all of our products and processes. We’re delivering trust, dependability, sustainability, and style. To make it all happen, we’ve transformed our workplace into an environment where smart, ambitious people have the support to reach their fullest potential.

When you join Fortune Brands, you become part of a high-performing team empowered to think big, learn fast and make bold decisions. We support an inclusive culture where everyone is encouraged be their authentic selves, and where our differences and unique perspectives are a key strength.

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Job Description

As the Senior Global IT Sourcing Category Manager, you will serve as a strategic partner to IT, Digital, Cybersecurity, and business leaders, co-developing sourcing strategies that enable technology outcomes while optimizing total cost of ownership. This role is highly collaborative focused on building trust, aligning priorities, and influencing decisions across a global, matrixed organization.

You will work side‑by‑side with stakeholders to shape sourcing approaches that balance cost, risk, innovation, and speed, supporting both day‑to‑day operational needs and long‑term technology transformation.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with IT and business stakeholders to understand technology roadmaps, architectural standards, demand drivers, and future capabilities.
• Co‑develop and execute IT category strategies covering software, SaaS, cloud, infrastructure, telecom, cybersecurity, and IT services.
• Facilitate ongoing dialogue between Procurement, IT, Finance, Legal, and Risk to ensure sourcing decisions are well aligned, transparent, and sustainable.
• Build and manage a jointly prioritized sourcing pipeline, ensuring stakeholders buy in from concept through implementation.
• Lead RFIs, RFQs, and RFPs in partnership with IT teams, aligning commercial outcomes with technical and operational requirements.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to stakeholders by providing market insights, supplier intelligence, and recommendations on sourcing and commercial models.
• Lead end‑to‑end commercial negotiations, including direct contract redlining and collaboration with Legal, Finance, and stakeholders to resolve complex terms related to pricing, risk, liability, SLAs, data privacy, and compliance.
• Manage a high volume of concurrent contracts and sourcing initiatives, maintaining momentum across multiple negotiations and ensuring timely execution without sacrificing quality or stakeholder alignment.
• Balance value delivery across cost optimization, supplier performance, innovation, flexibility, and risk mitigation.
• Support supplier relationships through collaborative governance, performance reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Promote adoption of best practice IT procurement processes while remaining flexible to evolving business and technology needs.
• Encourage knowledge sharing and continuous improvement across procurement and IT communities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience.
• 5+ years of experience in indirect procurement, with strong emphasis on IT sourcing and stakeholder partnership.
• Proven experience working collaboratively with IT leadership, and functional teams.
• Hands‑on experience sourcing key IT categories such as software, SaaS, cloud, infrastructure, telecom, cybersecurity, and IT services.
• Demonstrated ability to negotiate and redline complex supplier contracts, including software, SaaS, cloud, and IT services agreements.
• Strong understanding of IT commercial constructs (subscriptions, licensing, consumption-based pricing, managed services).
• Experience facilitating cross‑functional discussions and aligning diverse perspectives into shared outcomes.
• Willingness to travel domestically as needed.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated success as a trusted business partner, not just a transactional sourcing lead.
• Strong communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to influence without authority.
• Procurement Certification
• Advanced experience negotiating and redlining complex IT contracts, with the ability to manage a high volume of concurrent agreements and drive timely execution across multiple stakeholders.
• Strategic, curious, and outcome oriented, with attention to both relationships and results.
• High integrity, collaborative mindset, and strong work ethic.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and evolving technology landscapes.
• Quick learner with interest in emerging IT trends and sourcing models.

Additional Information

Fortune Brands believes in fair and equitable pay. A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this role is Hiring Pay Range: $80,000 USD - $120,000 USD. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range, or be above or below the range, based on factors including, but not limited to, education, training, experience, professional achievement, business need, and location. In addition to base salary, employees will participate in either an annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance, or a role-based sales incentive plan.

At Fortune Brands, we support the overall health and wellness of our associates by offering comprehensive, competitive benefits that prioritize all aspects of wellbeing and provide flexibility for our teammates’ unique needs. This includes robust health plans, a market-leading 401(k) program with a company contribution, product discounts, flexible time off benefits, adoption benefits, and more. We offer numerous ERGs (Employee Resource Groups) to foster a sense of belonging for all associates.

Fortune Brands is built on industry-leading brands and innovation within the high-growth categories of water, outdoors and security. The Company makes innovative products for residential and commercial environments, with a growing focus on digital solutions and products that add luxury, contribute to safety and enhance sustainability. To learn more, visit our website at fbin.com.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Fortune Brands is an equal opportunity employer. Fortune Brands evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, disability/handicap status, marital status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic history or information, or any other legally protected characteristic.

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