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Senior Category Manager - Indirect Categories
Location
United States
Posted
23 hours ago
Salary
$119.3K - $220.7K / year
Seniority
Lead
No structured requirement data.
Job Description
Senior Category Manager - Indirect Categories
Activision
Role Description Join a Global Procurement organization supporting a fast-paced entertainment and technology business. The Senior Category Manager – Indirect Categories will own global category strategies, complex sourcing initiatives, supplier negotiations, and ongoing supplier management across a diverse portfolio of indirect and technology spend. You'll drive cost optimization, risk mitigation, and procurement transformation while partnering with senior stakeholders across: - Marketing - Technology - HR - Finance - Legal - Facilities - Security This role calls for strong commercial acumen, analytical depth, and the executive presence to influence decisions across a complex global organization. Qualifications - 7+ years of strategic sourcing, procurement, or category management experience in large, complex organizations. - Demonstrated experience leading enterprise-scale sourcing across Advertising & Marketing, Technology, and Benefits categories. - Proven success negotiating complex commercial agreements spanning agency, technology services, software, infrastructure, hardware, and SaaS environments. - Track record of delivering measurable savings, cost avoidance, process improvement, and risk mitigation outcomes. - Exceptional stakeholder management and the ability to influence at all organizational levels. - Strong financial, analytical, and quantitative modeling skills, with advanced Excel proficiency (complex formulas, data modeling, pivot tables, executive reporting, and dashboards). - Proficiency with Microsoft Copilot and AI-enabled tools to synthesize information, analyze supplier and spend data, and streamline procurement workflows. - Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills, with high attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment. Requirements - Develop and execute short- and long-term category strategies, partnering with stakeholders to understand business objectives, demand, risk considerations, and future needs. - Lead end-to-end strategic sourcing: supplier evaluations, RFx processes, selection, and executive sourcing recommendations. - Negotiate commercial, financial, and contractual terms that maximize value while mitigating business, operational, legal, privacy, and security risks, working closely with Legal, Security, Privacy, Finance, HR, Tax, and Risk Management. - Build financial models and perform quantitative analysis of supplier cost structures, market trends, benchmarking, and total cost of ownership to shape negotiation strategies and identify savings opportunities. - Drive supplier consolidation, demand management, contract standardization, preferred supplier programs, and governance frameworks. - Manage supplier relationships through performance scorecards, business reviews, governance meetings, and escalation management. - Deliver executive-ready presentations, business cases, category roadmaps, and sourcing recommendations to senior leadership. - Leverage Microsoft Copilot, AI-enabled tools, and analytics to improve procurement productivity, spend visibility, and reporting. Benefits - Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance. - 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching. - Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave. - Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others. - If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.
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