Global Category Leader, Indirect Services

NorthMark Strategies; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company-Paid Lunch Stipend (GrubHub)

Company-Paid Benefits: Medical, Dental

Paid Parental Leave (16 weeks)

401(k) matching 100% up to 6%

Employee-Paid Benefits: PPO options

25 days PTO + 12 holidays

Job summary

NorthMark Strategies LLC is seeking a Global Category Leader, Indirect Services, to own enterprise category strategy for HR, Professional Services, and Facilities. You will lead a team of Category Managers, drive multi‑year strategies, and negotiate high‑value agreements globally while enabling regional procurement teams to execute consistently.

You will influence senior leaders, collaborate with Legal, Finance, and Risk, and deliver cost and value improvements across regions.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of procurement, strategic sourcing, or category management.
• Leadership experience with category managers or senior sourcing professionals.
• Experience owning global or multi-region category strategy, with large, complex services negotiations.

Responsibilities

• Lead, develop, and manage a team of Category Managers and set objectives.
• Own multi-year global category strategies for HR, Professional Services, and Facilities.
• Define target supplier landscape and make-or-buy input for categories.
• Direct global and multi-region sourcing events and lead major negotiations.
• Equip regional teams with strategy, playbooks, and negotiation levers.
• Build trusted relationships with global leaders and executive stakeholders.
• Manage executive-level relationships and governance with strategic suppliers.
• Report on opportunities, risks, and market developments to leadership.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic procurement

Global category strategy

Spend analytics

Negotiation

Executive stakeholder management

Travel up to 10%

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA or advanced degree preferred

Tools

Coupa

SAP Ariba

Ivalua

Zip

Oracle procurement

Job description

The Company

NorthMark Strategies is a leading investment firm, combining capital, innovation, and engineering to drive long-term value. From operating complex businesses to backing breakthrough technologies, our mission is to build enduring businesses. Our team combines intelligent risk-taking, operational excellence, exceptional talent, and world-class computing capacity to create shareholder value.

Our company offers a dynamic environment where individuals have the freedom to lead companies toward bold achievements by embracing innovation, leveraging technology, and fostering differentiated business strategies. Our values are Integrity, Ability, and Energy, and the company aims to hire individuals who possess those qualities.

At NorthMark Strategies, we believe the future isn’t something to hope for, it’s something to build. We don’t just invest, we create. Bringing together strategic insight and technical horsepower to deliver outcomes that endure.

The Position

The Global Category Leader, Indirect Services owns enterprise category strategy for HR, Professional Services, and Facilities services. This is the senior global owner of these categories, responsible for setting strategy, defining the supplier landscape and preferred-supplier architecture, leading the largest global negotiations, and enabling regional procurement teams to execute consistently in their markets. The role leads a team of Category Managers covering the assigned categories.

The role balances the drive for global consistency against the practical constraints of individual markets. Category strategies must be ambitious enough to unlock enterprise-level value and practical enough for regional teams to deliver against local supplier markets, regulatory regimes, and business expectations. Success depends as much on the quality of the strategy and the strength of partnership with regional procurement leaders and global function heads as on direct authority.

Responsibilities

Team leadership. Lead, develop, and manage a team of Category Managers, allocating category ownership, setting objectives, and building depth in category strategy, negotiation, and executive stakeholder management. Own hiring, performance management, and succession planning for the team, and ensure consistent standards of category rigor across the portfolio.

Global category strategy. Own and maintain multi-year global category strategies for HR, Professional Services, and Facilities, grounded in spend analytics, supplier market intelligence, cost drivers, benchmarking, and the strategic priorities of the global functions supported. Refresh strategies on a defined cadence and secure endorsement from function leadership and the Head of Indirect Procurement.

Supplier portfolio architecture. Define the target supplier landscape for each category, including global versus regional supplier roles, preferred-supplier panels, rationalization targets, and where competition should be preserved versus consolidated. Provide make-versus-buy and outsourcing input where relevant.

Global sourcing and negotiation. Direct global and multi-region sourcing events across the portfolio and personally lead the most significant commercial negotiations, including global MSAs, outsourced service agreements, consulting and SOW frameworks, contingent labor programs, and integrated facilities management contracts. Partner with Legal, Finance, Security, Privacy, and Risk on terms and due diligence.

Enablement of regional teams. Ensure regional procurement teams are equipped with the strategy, playbooks, negotiation levers, benchmarks, contract templates, and supplier intelligence required to execute locally. Review and support regional category strategies for alignment, arbitrate exception requests, and act as escalation point on category questions.

Executive stakeholder management. Build trusted advisor relationships with global leaders in HR, Finance, Real Estate and Workplace, and other functions. Shape demand and specifications upstream, influence budget and planning cycles, and represent procurement’s point of view credibly at senior levels.

Global supplier relationship management. Own executive-level relationships and governance for strategic global suppliers in the assigned categories, including business reviews, performance frameworks, innovation and value‑engineering agendas, and remediation of systemic performance issues.

Value delivery and reporting. Build and maintain the global opportunity pipeline across the portfolio, covering cost, demand management, working capital, and service‑quality improvements. Report performance, risks, and market developments to the Head of Indirect Procurement and function leadership.

Risk, compliance, and responsible sourcing. Ensure category strategies address third‑party risk, data privacy, worker classification and co‑employment exposure, business continuity, and regulatory requirements across regions. Embed supplier diversity and sustainability commitments into category and supplier decisions.

Requirements

• 7+ years of procurement, strategic sourcing, or category management experience, with substantial depth in indirect services.
• Demonstrated people‑leadership experience, including direct line management of category managers or senior sourcing professionals.
• Demonstrated ownership of global or multi‑region category strategy, not solely regional or transactional sourcing. Proven track record leading large, complex services negotiations — outsourced services, consulting frameworks, contingent labor, or facilities management.
• Experience working through a global‑plus‑regional operating model and influencing teams and stakeholders outside a direct reporting line.
• Strong executive presence and the ability to hold a commercial position with senior business leaders.
• Analytical rigor in spend analytics, cost modeling, benchmarking, and business case development.
• Willingness to travel internationally up to 10% of your time.
• Bachelor’s degree; MBA or equivalent advanced degree preferred.

Preferred

• Category depth in two or more of HR services (benefits administration, talent acquisition, learning, payroll), Professional Services (consulting, advisory, legal, agency), and Facilities (IFM, maintenance, security, food services).
• Experience with Coupa / SAP Ariba / Ivalua / Zip / Oracle and contract lifecycle management platforms.
• Exposure to contingent labor and MSP/VMS programs, and to worker‑classification considerations across multiple jurisdictions.
• CPSM, MCIPS, or equivalent certification.

It is impossible to list every requirement for, or responsibility of, any position. Similarly, we cannot identify all the skills a position may require since job responsibilities and the Company’s needs may change over time. Therefore, the above job description is not comprehensive or exhaustive. The Company reserves the right to adjust, add to or eliminate any aspect of the above description. The Company also retains the right to require all employees to undertake additional or different job responsibilities when necessary to meet business needs.

Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

Benefits & Perks:

• Company-Paid Lunch Stipend : Lunch is provided via GrubHub
• Company-Paid Benefits: 100% Employer-Paid Medical in our High Deductible Health Plan, Dental and Vision benefits for employees and their families, 16 weeks of Paid Parental Leave, Employee Assistance Program, Life insurance, Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability
• 401(k): Company will match 100% of your contributions up to 6%
• Optional Employee-Paid Benefits: Medical insurance in our PPO plan and a variety of other benefits such as Health Savings Accounts (with Company Contribution!), Flexible Spending Accounts, Supplemental Life Insurance, Wellhub and more.
• Time Off: 25 days of Paid Time Off plus 12 company holidays

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

NORTHMARK STRATEGIES LLC IS AN EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. THE COMPANY’S POLICY IS NOT TO DISCRIMINATE AGAINST ANY APPLICANT OR EMPLOYEE BASED ON RACE, COLOR, RELIGION, NATIONAL ORIGIN, GENDER, AGE, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER IDENTITY OR EXPRESSION, MARITAL STATUS, MENTAL OR PHYSICAL DISABILITY, AND GENETIC INFORMATION, OR ANY OTHER BASIS PROTECTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. THE FIRM ALSO PROHIBITS HARASSMENT OF APPLICANTS OR EMPLOYEES BASED ON ANY OF THESE PROTECTED CATEGORIES.