Category Sourcing Manager – Indirect Procurement

Category Sourcing Manager – Indirect Procurement

We are seeking an experienced and commercially driven Category Sourcing Manager to join our Indirect Procurement organization. In this role, you will act as a strategic partner to senior business leaders, including C-suite and executive stakeholders, helping shape how the organization manages third-party spend and creates sustainable business value.

You will own and lead strategic sourcing and category management initiatives across key areas of indirect spend, challenging established ways of working, identifying new opportunities, and bringing innovative procurement solutions to the business.

This role combines strategic thinking, commercial acumen, stakeholder influence, and strong execution. You will use market intelligence, data analytics, enterprise AI, and data storytelling to turn complex spend and market insights into clear recommendations and measurable outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Business Partnering and Stakeholder Influence

• Act as a trusted procurement advisor to C-suite and senior business leaders, providing strategic insights, commercial recommendations, and opportunities to optimize third-party spend.

• Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders across functions, developing a deep understanding of business priorities, challenges, and growth plans.

• Proactively challenge existing practices and assumptions, bringing external market perspectives, innovative solutions, and best-in-class procurement thinking to the organization.

• Influence decision-making at the highest levels, balancing business requirements, commercial objectives, risk, and long-term value.

• Partner with stakeholders to build procurement strategies that are aligned with broader business and functional objectives.

• Category Management and Strategic Sourcing

• Develop and execute comprehensive category strategies across key indirect spend areas such as IT, Marketing, Professional Services, HR, Facilities, and other corporate services.

• Lead complex, high-value sourcing initiatives from opportunity identification and market analysis through to sourcing, negotiation, contracting, implementation, and benefits realization.

• Develop category roadmaps that identify opportunities for cost savings, cost avoidance, value creation, supplier optimization, risk mitigation, and process improvement.

• Lead cross-functional sourcing teams, bringing together business stakeholders, Finance, Legal, and other relevant functions to deliver strategic outcomes.

• Establish a strong understanding of supplier markets, emerging trends, cost drivers, and competitive dynamics to inform category strategies and sourcing decisions.

• Ensure sourcing and category initiatives deliver sustainable results that are tracked, measured, and communicated to stakeholders.

• Data, AI and Procurement Transformation

• Leverage procurement data, analytics, and enterprise AI capabilities to identify opportunities, improve decision-making, and increase procurement effectiveness.

• Use data storytelling to translate complex spend, supplier, and market information into clear, compelling recommendations for senior stakeholders.

• Identify opportunities to automate, simplify, and transform procurement processes through technology, AI, and innovative ways of working.

• Establish fact-based business cases that demonstrate the financial and strategic impact of procurement initiatives.

• Contribute to the continued evolution of the Indirect Procurement function, helping establish scalable, data-driven, and digitally enabled ways of working.

• Commercial Value and Supplier Management

• Lead complex commercial negotiations, ensuring procurement strategies deliver competitive pricing, favorable contractual terms, and broader business value.

• Develop and maintain strategic supplier relationships, balancing performance, innovation, commercial value, resilience, and risk.

• Identify opportunities to consolidate spend, improve supplier performance, optimize commercial models, and unlock additional value.

• Partner with Finance and business stakeholders to ensure savings and other procurement benefits are accurately measured, validated, and sustained.

• Monitor category and supplier performance, proactively addressing risks and identifying opportunities for continuous improvement.

• Leadership and Procurement Excellence

• Lead through influence, bringing structure, pace, and accountability to complex, cross-functional initiatives.

• Mentor and support procurement colleagues, sharing category expertise, commercial best practices, and strategic sourcing capabilities.

• Represent Indirect Procurement as a strategic business function, promoting a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and value creation.

• Contribute to procurement-wide initiatives and transformation programs beyond individual category responsibilities.

• Across Logitech we empower collaboration and foster play. We help teams collaborate and learn from anywhere, without compromising on productivity or continuity so it should be no surprise that most of our jobs are open to work from home from most locations. Our hybrid work model allows some employees to work remotely while others work on-premises. Within this structure, you may have teams or departments split between working remotely and working in-house.

• Logitech is an amazing place to work because it is full of authentic people who are inclusive by nature as well as by design. Being a global company, we value our diversity and celebrate all our differences. Don’t meet every single requirement? Not a problem. If you feel you are the right candidate for the opportunity, we strongly recommend that you apply. We want to meet you!

• We offer comprehensive and competitive benefits packages and working environments that are designed to be flexible and help you to care for yourself and your loved ones, now and in the future. Logitech supports a culture that encourages individuals to achieve good physical, financial, emotional, intellectual and social wellbeing so we all can create, achieve and enjoy more and support our families. We can’t wait to tell you more about them being that there are too many to list here and they vary based on location.

• All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability.

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