Category Manager - Information Technology

HMSA; Honolulu (HI); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

HMSA in Hawaii seeks an experienced IT procurement leader to drive category strategies, vendor negotiations, and contract management across IT and technology operations. You will collaborate with the CPO, IT leadership, and privacy/security teams to optimize cloud consumption, SaaS licensing, and strategic sourcing.

Responsibilities include market research, demand planning, and developing multi-year plans that deliver measurable savings while ensuring risk controls and compliance are maintained

Qualifications

• Experience leading IT category strategy, sourcing, and vendor management.
• Ability to develop multi-year IT procurement plans aligned with enterprise goals.
• Strong negotiation, contract drafting, and risk management skills.

Responsibilities

• Partner with CPO and IT leadership to develop multiyear category strategies for IT & technology operations vendors.
• Lead execution of IT vendor strategy, aligning with enterprise architecture, digital transformation, and cybersecurity priorities.
• Coordinate vendor demand planning, roadmaps, product lifecycles, and modernization efforts.
• Conduct market research on SaaS, cloud, licensing, hardware, cybersecurity, and managed services.
• Identify cost optimization, rationalization, standardization, and risk mitigation opportunities.
• Lead sourcing, RFx events, and negotiation of IT contracts ($1M-$10M+).
• Develop deal strategies (bundling, multi-year terms, rate card optimization, usage commitments).
• Manage software licensing, SaaS subscriptions, cloud agreements, managed services, telecom, and IT services contracts.
• Drive savings through competitive sourcing, benchmarking, and renegotiation strategies.
• Oversee cloud consumption and enterprise agreement optimization.
• Ensure contracts meet HMSA data protection, cybersecurity, SLAs, compliance, and risk management standards.
• Provide vendor governance for IT suppliers and align with financial and operational outcomes.

Skills

IT procurement

Vendor negotiations

Contract management

Cost optimization

Stakeholder management

Market research

Education

Bachelor's degree in supply chain or related field

Tools

SAP Ariba

Coupa

Job description

1. Category Strategy and Planning
   • Partner with the Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) and IT leadership to develop multiyear category strategies for IT & Technology Operations vendors.
   • Lead execution of IT vendor strategy, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, digital transformation, and cybersecurity priorities.
   • Coordinate with IT Leadership on vendor demand planning, technology roadmaps, product lifecycles, and modernization efforts.
   • Conduct market research and stay up to date with current trends across SaaS, cloud models, licensing, hardware, cybersecurity, and managed services.
   • Identify cost optimization, rationalization, standardization, and risk mitigation opportunities.
2. Strategic Sourcing and Contracting
   • Lead sourcing, competitive events (RFx), and negotiation of complex IT contracts ($1M-$10M+), including SaaS, cloud, infrastructure, Telcom, and managed services.
   • Develop and execute deal strategies (i.e., bundling, multi-year agreements, rate card optimization, and usage commitments).
   • Manage contracting for software licensing, SaaS subscriptions, cloud consumption agreements, managed services, telecom, and IT professional services.
   • Drive measurable savings through competitive sourcing, benchmarking, and renegotiation strategies.
   • Evaluate and optimize cloud consumption (Azure/AWS), SaaS licensing tiers, and enterprise agreements.
   • Oversee the IT contract lifecycle, including renewals, extensions, amendments, and vendor onboarding and offboarding.
   • Ensure contracts meet HMSA standards for data protection, cybersecurity controls, SLAs, compliance, and risk management.
3. Vendor Governance and Performance Oversight
   • Provide vendor oversight for IT & Technology Operations suppliers, owning commercial performance of vendors, including cost, value realization, and contract adherence.
   • Partner with business owners and/or vendor managers to ensure alignment between financial outcomes and operational performance.
   • Partner with Vendor Managers, IT owners, and InfoSec to ensure governance, QBRs, continuous improvement, and issue resolution.
   • Support privacy, cybersecurity, thirdparty risk, and regulatory compliance assessments.
   • Identify opportunities for cost recovery, demand management, and contract re-baselining.
4. Financial and Value Management
   • Analyze IT spending (software, cloud, infrastructure, telecom, managed services); deliver and track quantifiable cost savings, cost avoidance, and value creation across IT spend.
   • Validate pricing, usage data (seat counts, cloud consumption), billing accuracy, and budget impacts.
   • Develop business cases for contract decisions, vendor consolidation, or new technology acquisitions.
   • Support IT budget cycles, forecasting, and technology investment planning
5. Stakeholder and Cross-Departmental Collaboration
   • Coordinate closely with CIO, IT Directors, Enterprise Architecture, Cybersecurity, Applications, Infrastructure, and Digital teams.
   • Function as a procurement advisor for technology initiatives and vendor planning.
   • Partner with Legal, Compliance, Risk, Privacy, and Finance
   • Guide business and IT stakeholders on procurement governance, contract requirements, and vendor best practices.
6. Performs all other miscellaneous responsibilities and duties as assigned or directed.