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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Procurement Category Manager - Technology Infrastructure & Datacenter - **Company:** ARM - **Location:** Austin, TX, United States - **Salary:** $128,400.0 - $173,700.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Data Centers, SAP Ariba, Hardware Infrastructure - **Published:** November 1, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.jofdav.com/jobs/60368275-procurement-category-manager-technology-infrastructure-datacenter ## About the Role * Experience managing indirect technology procurement categories and sourcing infrastructure hardware, systems or services for internal IT, engineering or data center environments. * Ability to develop category strategies and turn market, supplier, spend and demand insight into practical sourcing plans. * Experience leading complex sourcing activities, including competitive tendering, commercial negotiation and contracting for technology infrastructure. * Ability to translate technical and business requirements into commercial strategies, while working constructively with Engineering, IT and senior stakeholders. Nice-to-Have Skills and Experience * Experience negotiating colocation, hosting or data center capacity agreements. * Experience sourcing cloud infrastructure or related services. * Experience in technology procurement within a technology, semiconductor or engineering organisation. * Experience working across global organisations and international supplier markets. * Experience using source-to-contract tools, such as Ariba, or procurement orchestration platforms, such as Zip. * A relevant procurement qualification, such as MCIPS, or equivalent practical procurement experience. ## Description Join Arm's Procurement team at a pivotal point in its transformation, supporting the technology infrastructure behind internal Engineering, IT, AI compute and data center environments. As Procurement Category Manager - Infrastructure & Datacenter, you will shape category strategy and lead sourcing for hardware, systems and services including colocation, hosting, enterprise servers, compute and GPU infrastructure, storage, and related support services., You will partner with Engineering, IT, Finance, Legal and other stakeholders to bring market insight and commercial expertise to technology purchasing decisions. This role combines strategic category management with hands-on sourcing, negotiation and contracting in a fast-moving technology landscape. You may also contribute to adjacent technology categories and procurement priorities supporting Arm's US operations., * Develop and deliver category strategies for indirect technology infrastructure spend, using demand, spend, supplier and market insight to create an actionable sourcing pipeline. * Lead end-to-end strategic sourcing for infrastructure equipment, systems and services, from market assessment and supplier selection through competitive tendering, negotiation and contracting. * Build commercial strategies that assess total cost of ownership, capacity, flexibility, service levels, commitments and risk, creating value beyond headline price. * Evaluate sourcing models for infrastructure hardware and services, considering OEM relationships, supplier capability, commercial structures and long-term business needs. * Monitor infrastructure technology markets, supplier capabilities and commercial developments, translating insight into category and sourcing decisions. * Manage commercial relationships with infrastructure OEMs, colocation and hosting providers, and service suppliers, supporting performance, governance, risk management and continuous improvement. * Partner with Engineering, IT and cross-functional stakeholders to understand requirements, provide commercial guidance and influence sourcing and investment decisions. * Identify supplier and commercial risks, agree mitigating actions and support alignment with Arm's ESG objectives., This is an opportunity to influence infrastructure purchasing decisions that support Arm's engineering, IT and AI compute environments. You will work on strategic, high-value sourcing activity across an evolving technology market, build relationships with leading infrastructure suppliers and collaborate with colleagues across Engineering, IT, Finance and Legal. The role offers scope to develop category expertise while helping shape procurement approaches during a period of team growth and transformation., At Arm, we want to build extraordinary teams. If you need an adjustment or an accommodation during the recruitment process, please email accommodations@arm.com. To note, by sending us the requested information, you consent to its use by Arm to arrange for appropriate accommodations. All accommodation or adjustment requests will be treated with confidentiality, and information concerning these requests will only be disclosed as necessary to provide the accommodation. Although this is not an exhaustive list, examples of support include breaks between interviews, having documents read aloud, or office accessibility. Please email us about anything we can do to accommodate you during the recruitment process. Hybrid Working Arm's approach to hybrid working is designed to create a working environment that supports both high performance and personal wellbeing. We believe in bringing people together face to face to enable us to work at pace, whilst recognizing the value of flexibility. Within that framework, we empower groups/teams to determine their own hybrid working patterns, depending on the work and the team's needs. Details of what this means for each role will be shared upon application. In some cases, the flexibility we can offer is limited by local legal, regulatory, tax, or other considerations, and where this is the case, we will collaborate with you to find the best solution. Please talk to us to find out more about what this could look like for you. ## About Arm Arm is the industry’s highest-performing and most power-efficient compute platform with unmatched scale that touches 100 percent of the connected global population. To meet the insatiable demand for compute, Arm is delivering advanced solutions that allow the world’s leading technology companies to unleash the unprecedented experiences and capabilities of AI. Together with the world’s largest computing ecosystem and 22 million software developers, we are building the future of AI on Arm. 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