Regional Category Manager

Schneider Electric; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Schneider Electric is seeking a Senior Manager, Category Management to lead strategic sourcing initiatives on a global scale, driving cost savings and value while mitigating risk and building strong supplier partnerships.

You will develop category strategies, lead negotiations with strategic suppliers, analyze market trends, and provide expert guidance across business areas, shaping procurement strategy and sustainable value.

Qualifications

• Strong business acumen with the ability to connect procurement decisions to organizational strategy.
• Proven collaboration and conflict management capabilities to navigate complexity and ambiguity
• Creative thinking and a growth mindset to drive innovative solutions in dynamic environments
• Financial literacy to analyze cost structures and build data‑driven business cases

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement category strategies that optimize sourcing and deliver measurable cost savings and value
• Lead negotiations with strategic suppliers to secure contracts with favorable terms and long‑term benefits
• Analyze market trends and evaluate suppliers to uncover opportunities for innovation and risk mitigation
• Provide expert guidance on complex procurement challenges with impact across multiple business areas

Skills

Procurement negotiations

Procurement strategy

Supplier management

Stakeholder management

Influencing skills

Strategic thinking

Risk management

Sustainable procurement

Job description

Overview

Join us as a Senior Manager, Category Management, and take the lead on strategic sourcing initiatives that drive cost savings, mitigate risk, and create sustainable value. This role offers the chance to shape procurement strategy on a global scale while building high‑performing supplier partnerships.

What will you do?

• Develop and implement category strategies that optimize sourcing and deliver measurable cost savings and value
• Lead negotiations with strategic suppliers to secure contracts with favorable terms and long‑term benefits
• Analyze market trends and evaluate suppliers to uncover opportunities for innovation and risk mitigation
• Provide expert guidance on complex procurement challenges with impact across multiple business areas

Key skills we are looking for

• Procurement negotiations — expert level; securing favorable terms in high‑stakes, multi‑stakeholder contract discussions
• Procurement strategy — expert level; designing and implementing category strategies that drive sustainable value
• Supplier management — expert level; building and optimizing strategic supplier relationships for long‑term performance
• Stakeholder management — expert level; aligning diverse internal and external partners around shared procurement goals
• Influencing skills — expert level; driving consensus and action across functions without direct authority
• Strategic thinking — expert level; translating market insights into actionable sourcing roadmaps
• Risk management — expert level; identifying and mitigating supply chain and contractual risks proactively
• Sustainable procurement — advanced level; integrating environmental and social criteria into sourcing decisions

Qualifications

• Strong business acumen with the ability to connect procurement decisions to organizational strategy
• Proven collaboration and conflict management capabilities to navigate complexity and ambiguity
• Creative thinking and a growth mindset to drive innovative solutions in dynamic environments
• Financial literacy to analyze cost structures and build data‑driven business cases

What's in it for me?

• Lead high‑visibility initiatives with direct impact on global procurement outcomes
• Shape category strategy and drive sustainable value across the organization
• Work in a collaborative, innovative culture that invests in your professional growth
• Flexible work environment designed to support your success and well‑being

Benefits

Care for Yourself and Your Family. We ensure you feel secure with benefits that help you and your family thrive: medical (with member reward points), dental, vision, and basic life insurance, Benefit Bucks (credits to apply towards your benefits), flexible work arrangements, paid family leaves, well‑being programs, 12 holidays per year, 20 days of paid time off per year (pro‑rated in the first year of employment based on start date).

Invest and Plan Your Future. We help you plan and invest for the future with competitive pay and programs: your base salary, short‑term incentives or sales incentives, opportunities to own company shares (eligibility depends on start date), and 401(k) + match.

Grow Your Skills and Career. We commit to helping you grow with ongoing performance and development conversations, Senior Talent Program, global career opportunities, access to our Schneider Career Hub for new positions, projects, and mentors, and learning platforms like Coursera to equip you with the skills for today and tomorrow.

Team Up in the Workplace. We encourage teaming up through project opportunities on the Schneider Career Hub, smart ways to collaborate, celebrating contributions via a recognition program (including service anniversary), sharing your voice in our engagement survey, and fostering an inclusive, caring workplace.

Support Your Community. We make a difference in your community with volunteer leave, programs through the Schneider Electric Foundation, initiatives that support youth education, and military leave benefits.

Equal Opportunity & Ethics

Schneider Electric aspires to be the most inclusive and caring company in the world, by providing equitable opportunities to everyone, everywhere, and ensuring all employees feel uniquely valued and safe to contribute their best. We mirror the diversity of the communities in which we operate, and ‘inclusion’ is one of our core values. We believe our differences make us stronger as a company and as individuals and we are committed to championing inclusivity in everything we do.

At Schneider Electric, we uphold the highest standards of ethics and compliance, and we believe that trust is a foundational value. Our Trust Charter is our Code of Conduct and demonstrates our commitment to ethics, safety, sustainability, quality and cybersecurity, underpinning every aspect of our business and our willingness to behave and respond respectfully and in good faith to all our stakeholders. You can find out more about our Trust Charter here.

Schneider Electric is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is our policy to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities in the areas of recruiting, hiring, training, transferring, and promoting all qualified individuals regardless of race, religion, color, gender, disability, national origin, ancestry, age, military status, sexual orientation, marital status or any other legally protected characteristic or conduct.