Category Sourcing Manager

Job Summary

The Category Sourcing Manager will lead strategic sourcing activities across indirect and direct spend categories. This role will manage competitive bidding events, negotiate commercial terms, evaluate suppliers, and partner with cross-functional teams to identify cost savings and value-generation opportunities. The role will also support supplier transitions and ensure sourcing activities align with applicable FDA-regulated change control processes.

• Reporting to: Executive Director, Strategic Sourcing
• Location: Johnson City, TN or Nashville, TN | Hybrid | Relocation Assistance Available
  
  

Responsibilities/Essential Duties

• Serve as a key Strategic Sourcing contact for assigned spend categories and maintain an understanding of industry dynamics, supply market conditions, and key suppliers.
• Identify cost reduction and value-generation opportunities across assigned categories and develop sourcing strategies aligned with business needs.
• Lead end-to-end RFQ and RFP processes, including developing sourcing packages, evaluating supplier proposals, analyzing total cost of ownership, and presenting award recommendations.
• Lead contract negotiations with business and legal stakeholders to secure favorable commercial and legal terms while minimizing transition risk and cost.
• Source direct materials, including chemicals, active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), and packaging components, in alignment with FDA regulations and cGMP standards.
• Partner with Quality, Regulatory, Manufacturing, and other cross-functional teams to qualify suppliers, manage change control activities, and address supply disruptions.
• Partner with corporate and commercial teams to develop scopes of work for professional services and negotiate commercial terms, SLAs, and KPIs.
• Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements, including MSAs, SOWs, software license agreements, order forms, and supply agreements.
• Partner with stakeholders to evaluate supplier performance and implement cost-saving and process improvement initiatives.
  
  

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree & more than 5 years of directly related experience.
• Experience with indirect sourcing, specifically professional services.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working within an FDA-regulated industry, including pharmaceuticals, biotech, medical devices, or cosmetics.
• Experience in strategic sourcing, category management, competitive bidding, contract negotiation, and supplier management.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration or Supply Chain Management.
• Professional certification through ASCM, ISM, PMI, or ASQ is a plus.
  
  

Key Competencies

• Strategic Negotiation: Demonstrates the ability to balance firmness with collaboration, navigate challenging negotiations, and secure favorable outcomes while maintaining strong supplier relationships.
• Relationship & Stakeholder Management: Builds trust and effectively navigates complex interpersonal dynamics with suppliers and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Communication & Influence: Communicates clearly and confidently, adapts communication style to the audience, and effectively influences stakeholders toward business objectives.
• Resilience & Problem Solving: Remains composed and solution-oriented when faced with pushback, competing priorities, or unexpected supply chain challenges.
• Conflict Resolution: Uses active listening and sound judgment to understand underlying concerns, de-escalate challenging situations, and move conversations toward productive outcomes.
  
  

Company Summary

Revance is a global company developing, producing, and distributing industry-leading, differentiated products across aesthetics, skincare, and therapeutics. Revance drives innovation beyond convention to offer treatment options for individuals across generations. The Company’s vision is to redefine excellence in aesthetics, skincare, and therapeutics through science-powered innovation, with an unwavering commitment to its providers, patients, and consumers. Revance’s award-winning products are the result of robust research and development, a cornerstone for the Company, driven by renowned scientists. For more information about Revance, please visit us at www.revance.com.

What Revance Invests In You

• Competitive Compensation including base salary and annual performance bonus.
• Flexible PTO, holidays, and parental leave.
• Generous healthcare benefits, HSA match, 401k match, employer paid life and disability insurance, pet insurance, wellness discounts and much more!
  
  

This section of the job description is required by the American with Disability Act (ADA). The ADA requires that job descriptions reflect the physical and mental demands required to effectively perform the essential duties of the job. The ADA prohibits employers from discriminating against a “qualified individual with a disability” in all aspects of the employment relationship. A “qualified individual with a disability” is “an individual who meets the education, experience, skill, and other job-related requirements of a position held or desired, and who, with reasonable accommodation, can perform the essential functions of a specified job.”

Revance is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment based on merit, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.