[Hiring] Senior Category Manager - Indirect Categories @Activision Blizzard, Inc.

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

• MBA or advanced business degree.
• CPSM, CIPS, ISM, APICS, PMP, or similar certification.
• Experience with Oracle iProc or similar Source-to-Pay platforms, and ServiceNow or intake/workflow management.
• Experience supporting entertainment, media, technology, or global consumer-facing businesses.
• Category experience in Facilities Management, Physical Security/Safety, Outsourced Development (ODF), Localization, or QA.
• Experience supporting procurement transformation, supplier consolidation, and operating model standardization.

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.