Counted October 17, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Category Manager: $125K median posted pay.
From 42 salary bands employers posted on 99 open category manager roles in procurement & supply chain. Never an estimate.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
| Level | Open roles | Median posted band | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 20 | — (7 of 8 bands) | — |
| Principal | 2 | — (2 of 8 bands) | — |
| Junior | 1 | — (0 of 8 bands) | — |
| Management | 1 | — (0 of 8 bands) | — |
| Mid | 1 | — (0 of 8 bands) | — |
Levels as the postings name them. A rung shows a median only where eight or more postings at that level carried a band.
Who is hiring
The employers with the most open.
| Employer | Open roles | Entry level |
|---|---|---|
| StockX | 7 | — |
| HelloFresh | 5 | — |
| Quince | 5 | — |
| Hitachi | 5 | — |
| Highmark Health | 5 | — |
| A.P. Moller - Maersk | 4 | — |
| US Foods | 3 | — |
| Okta | 3 | — |
| Montefiore | 3 | — |
| Terex | 2 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open category manager roles tonight.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Procurement | 62 | — |
| Supply Chain Coordination | 55 | — |
| Project Management | 37 | — |
| Continuous Improvement | 33 | — |
| Vendor Management | 30 | — |
| Risk Management | 28 | — |
| Spreadsheet Analysis | 27 | — |
| Performance Management | 25 | — |
| Account Management | 23 | — |
| Contract Negotiation | 21 | — |
Where the work is
4% of these roles are remote.
- Remote4%4 roles
- Hybrid0%0 roles
- On site73%72 roles
- Not stated23%23 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 99 open postings read from employers’ own job boards on October 17, 2026, and recounted every night. Pay is the band the employer posted — never an estimate, never a model — and 42 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Category Manager (Nights)” counts here too. 100% of roles with this title sit in procurement & supply chain, which is why this page belongs to that career. A title gets a page only where twenty-five or more roles are open, eight or more of them posted a band, three or more employers are hiring for it and four in five of its postings sit in one career, so no page here is a guess.