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Category Management Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 18+ category management jobs at companies offering summer Fridays and generous PTO—for a better work-life balance. 4 new this week. Hiring companies include Helion, C.A. Fortune, and Biogen.

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half-day Fridays 1
summer Fridays 2
generous PTO 4
best places to work 5
generous parental leave 2

Updated September 7, 2026

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Sr Strategic Sourcing Mgr

ServiceNow · Remote · New York, NY, USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work$155k – $272k

Indirect Procurement Manager

5mo

Augury · Remote · USA

77 · GreatRotating 4 Day Week$100k – $115k

Account Manager

17d

C.A. Fortune · Remote · Chicago, IL, USA

60 · GoodSummer Fridays$80k – $85k

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Category Manager

20d

C.A. Fortune · Remote · Boise, ID, USA

60 · GoodSummer Fridays$85k – $95k

Senior Connectivity Partnership Manager

Geotab · Hybrid · Oakville, ON, Canada

61 · GoodFlexible Hours

Manager, Strategic Sourcing Marketing & Sales

Biogen · Hybrid · Warsaw, Poland

60 · GoodGenerous PTOzł 166k – zł 228k

Strategic Sourcing Buyer Staff IV – Indirect Goods and Services

The Aerospace Corporation · Onsite · El Segundo, CA, USA

63 · Good9 Day Fortnight$107k – $161k

Sr. Director, Product Marketing

2mo

e.l.f. Beauty · Hybrid · Los Angeles, CA, USA

70 · GreatHalf Day Fridays$160k – $205k

Category Manager, Technical Equipment

23d

Helion · Onsite · Everett, WA, USA

59 · GoodGenerous PTO$159k – $196k

Procurement Manager

23d

Helion · Onsite · Everett, WA, USA

59 · GoodGenerous PTO$159k – $196k

Category Buyer SC - Air & Sea Transportation

1mo

Sanofi · Hybrid · Hyderabad, India

59 · GoodGenerous PTO

Category Buyer Packaging – Plastics

1mo

Sanofi · Hybrid · Budapest, Hungary

59 · GoodGenerous PTO$13.2M – $17.6M

Strategic Sourcing Manager - Business Services & Marketing

1mo

Canva · Hybrid · Sydney, Australia

58 · GoodBest Place to Work

Lead Applied Value Engineer – CPG & Retail

18d

Celonis · Hybrid · New York, NY, USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work

IT Procurement Partner

19d

Experian · Hybrid · Allen, TX, USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work$90k – $156k

Category Executive

24d

innocent drinks · Hybrid · London, UK

57 · GoodGenerous Parental Leave

Business Development Executive, Category Management

1mo

Syndigo · Hybrid · Chicago, IL, USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work$100k – $140k

Strategic Sourcing Business Partner, R&D Operations

18d

Anthropic · Hybrid · San Francisco, CA, USA

55 · GoodGenerous Parental Leave$190k – $230k

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Employers hiring for Category Management on this page include Helion, C.A. Fortune, and Biogen. Category Management roles appear most frequently in engineering, data, and platform teams at companies that have adopted a reduced-hours schedule. Each listing indicates the seniority level and whether Category Management is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Category Management roles span the full seniority range — we list 17 open roles requiring Category Management across entry-level, mid-level, senior, lead, and staff/principal positions. Senior and above tend to dominate because employers offering reduced-hours schedules often lean toward experienced individual contributors who can deliver consistently in fewer hours. Filter by level in the sidebar to narrow the list above.

Lead with measurable outcomes over time spent — Category Management hiring managers at reduced-hours companies care about delivered value, not hours worked. Highlight projects where you shipped at a steady cadence, collaborated asynchronously, or reduced engineering toil through automation or tooling. Include concrete metrics (latency improvements, adoption numbers, cost reductions) rather than vague duty descriptions. Expand listings above to see the exact framing each employer uses in their job descriptions.

For the full-pay schedules here — 4-day weeks and 9-day fortnights — yes: you keep a full-time salary for a shorter week. Part-time and pro-rata roles instead scale pay to hours, and each listing makes the arrangement clear. Category Management roles in tech and data typically command premium rates at both reduced-hours and traditional employers; specific ranges depend on seniority, location, and sub-specialty (e.g. backend vs frontend, infra vs ML). Individual listings above show exact bands where the employer publishes them.

Depends on the role, but Category Management candidates who also demonstrate async communication, clean documentation, and cross-functional collaboration are typically strong fits for reduced-hours employers — those companies rely on written-first communication and high-context handoffs to operate on a compressed schedule. Technical-adjacent skills vary by stack. Browse the top skills shown in the sidebar to see which tags co-occur most often with Category Management on current listings.