Lead Category Management (Quantum Computing)

Location: Broomfield, Colorado, United States; hybrid, with employees expected to work at the assigned location and remote work permitted up to 2 days per week with approval.

Salary: USD 111,000–149,000 per year

Company

hirify.global delivers a full-stack quantum computing platform for real-world applications across pharmaceuticals, materials science, financial services, government, industrial sectors, and academic and research institutions.

What you will do

• Own multi-year category strategies and portfolio performance for direct materials, capital equipment, technical services, research partnerships, software, and other strategic spend.
• Lead end-to-end sourcing initiatives, including market intelligence, supplier discovery, make-versus-buy analysis, RFIs, RFPs, RFQs, proposal evaluation, awards, and contracting.
• Structure, draft, and negotiate complex agreements, statements of work, master agreements, long-term agreements, subcontracts, amendments, and commercial terms.
• Lead contracting with government-funded research laboratories and coordinate with Legal, Contracts, Export Compliance, Finance, Security, and technical teams.
• Develop cost, total-cost-of-ownership, scenario, supplier-performance, and risk-management models to improve value and supply resilience.
• Guide category-management professionals, mentor colleagues, improve sourcing policies and processes, and influence senior cross-functional stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree minimum.
• Minimum 8 years of category-management experience, including category strategies, spend portfolios, supplier governance, and value-delivery initiatives, plus experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, contracts, subcontracts, or a related commercial discipline.
• Minimum 8 years leading complex, high-dollar negotiations and managing the full lifecycle of supplier agreements and subcontracts.
• Minimum 8 years sourcing technically complex products or services.
• Due to contractual requirements, must be a U.S. Person: a U.S. citizen, permanent resident or green card holder, or worker granted asylum or refugee status.

Nice to have

• Experience with government-funded research laboratories or similar institutions and partner-specific agreement structures.
• Advanced degree or professional certification such as CPSM, C.P.M., PMP, CPCM, CFCM, CSCP, or equivalent.
• Commercial, financial, analytical, and risk-management expertise, including executive-level recommendations.
• Experience negotiating intellectual property, technical data, confidentiality, cybersecurity, export control, R&D, publication, or technology-licensing terms.
• Category leadership in advanced manufacturing, capital equipment, laboratory equipment, engineering services, software, cloud, IT, or other high-technology spend.
• Independent judgment, constructive challenge, influence without direct authority, executive communication, stakeholder management, facilitation, and conflict resolution.
• Experience with SAP or relevant ERP systems, e-sourcing and contract-lifecycle platforms, analytics tools, and structured project-management methods.
• Experience mentoring others, establishing scalable sourcing practices, and leading enterprise process improvements.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative work in close proximity to colleagues, with flexible hybrid arrangements subject to approval.
• Employer-subsidized medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match and student loan repayment benefit.
• Equity opportunities, generous paid time off, sick leave, 12 paid holidays, paid parental leave, and employee discount programs.
• Equal opportunity employment, reasonable accommodation support, and an accessible recruitment process.

Hiring process

• Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis with no application deadline.
• Reasonable adjustments may be requested at any stage of the application or interview process.