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The role contributes to the development and execution of sourcing strategies aligned with the organization's strategic vision. The role utilizes supply chain and financial modeling for supply chain management, supplier selection, and contract negotiation. The role monitors supplier performance to ensure contract deliverables are met while identifying and mitigating contract risks. Responsibilities\nResponsible for the Hardware, Telecom, and Software category\nLeads the analysis of specific commodity data and industry trends, or leads an individual supply chain sub-category, and reports the results to managers.\nParticipates as a senior member on a cross-functional team, leads specific strategic procurement projects for less complex domains.\nHolds responsibility for supporting procurement activities within the designated line of business, ensuring product choices align with supplier strategies and cost-effectiveness.\nLiaises with stakeholder managers to understand business priorities and translate them into procurement plan.\nUtilizes supply chain and financial modeling to manage supply chain activities.\nParticipates in supplier selection activities, assesses the supply base of a category, and negotiates with suppliers with acceptable contracting outcomes using pre-packed solutions.\nEngages with low-complexity suppliers, and monitors their performance to ensure contract deliverables and performance standards are consistently met.\nIdentifies common contract risk areas using cause and effect thinking, advises program level business representatives on fundamental contract risk areas, and executes risk mitigation, business continuity, cost management and operations strategies.\nInitiates and champions best practices of procurement strategy throughout the supply chain, actively sharing insights and best practices globally, and collaborating with senior management to implement them within the organization.\nEducation & Experience Recommended\nFour-year or Graduate Degree in Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing Engineering, Business Administration, or any other related discipline or commensurate work experience or demonstrated competence.\nTypically has 4-7 years of work experience, preferably in procurement, supply chain, or a related field or an advanced degree with 3-5 years of work experience. Preferred Certifications NA Knowledge & Skills NA Cross-Org Skills\nEffective Communication\nResults Orientation\nLearning Agility\nDigital Fluency\nCustomer Centricity Impact & Scope\nImpacts multiple teams and may act as a team or project leader providing direction to team activities and facilitates information validation and team decision making process. Complexity\nResponds to moderately complex issues within established guidelines. Disclaimer\nThis job description describes the general nature and level of work performed in this role. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, skills, responsibilities, knowledge, etc. These may be subject to change and additional functions may be assigned as needed by management.\nJob -\nSupply Chain & OperationsSchedule -\nFull timeShift -\nFirst Shift (Mexico)Travel -\nRelocation -\nNoEqual Opportunity Employer (EEO)-\nHP, Inc. provides equal employment opportunity to all employees and prospective employees, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, sexual orientation, age, disability, or status as a protected veteran, marital status, familial status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic predisposition or carrier status, uniformed service status, political affiliation or any other characteristic protected by applicable national, federal, state, and local law(s).\nPlease be assured that you will not be subject to any adverse treatment if you choose to disclose the information requested. This information is provided voluntarily. The information obtained will be kept in strict confidence.\nFor more information, review HP’sEEO Policy or read about your rights as an applicant under the law here: “ Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal \"","description_format":"text","description_chars":4441,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":4,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":true,"industries":["Laptops","Computer Peripherals","3D Printers & Additive Manufacturing","Printers & Scanners"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-02T05:01:27Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":62,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.619,"p_room":1,"age_days":6,"expected_fill_days":24,"reasons":["conf:1","stale_co","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-07T05:47:15Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/hp-inc-technology-category-manager","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/hp-inc-technology-category-manager.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-08T01:45:18Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":3065,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":1935,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-09T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":72},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=72"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fhp-inc-technology-category-manager"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fhp-inc-technology-category-manager"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fhp-inc-technology-category-manager"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/hp-inc-technology-category-manager\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fhp-inc-technology-category-manager"}]}