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We super-serve over 100 million anime and manga fans across 200+ countries and territories, and help them connect with the stories and characters they crave. Whether that experience is online or in-person, streaming video, theatrical, games, merchandise, events and more, it’s powered by the anime content we all love.\nJoin our team, and help us shape the future of anime!\nCrunchyroll, LLC is an independently operated joint venture between US-based Sony Pictures Entertainment, and Japan's Aniplex, a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc., both subsidiaries of Tokyo-based Sony Group Corporation.\nAbout the role\nIn the role of Strategic Sourcing Manager, Technology, you will report to the Director, Strategic Sourcing.\nWe are considering applicants for Mexico City, Mexico.\nThis role owns a complex, loosely scoped technology sourcing portfolio across cloud infrastructure, content delivery networks, hosting and bandwidth, SaaS, developer tools, observability, customer support platforms, information technology hardware/software, security, and technology services. You will receive strategic objectives and translate them into category strategies, sourcing methods, evaluation criteria, governance routines, and supplier decisions that support Product & Engineering, Enterprise Technology, Information Technology, Security, Finance, Legal, and Accounts Payable. This is an individual-contributor role where impact comes through category ownership, independent judgment, and influential cross-functional execution rather than direct people management. Success in the first year will include a technology sourcing roadmap, stronger renewal discipline, improved contract and purchase-order coverage, and a regular operating cadence for supplier performance.\nCore Areas of Responsibility\nDefine and execute the technology category strategy, including supplier segmentation, spend baselining, renewal planning, and multi-year sourcing roadmaps across engineering, product, enterprise technology, and information technology needs.\nLead complex sourcing events, supplier selection, commercial negotiations, and contract/SOW/order-form reviews where technical, security, legal, finance, and business requirements must be evaluated together.\nDetermine the methods, process, evaluation criteria, and stakeholder decision path for new or ambiguous technology sourcing assignments, adapting sourcing techniques to the needs of each category and supplier situation.\nImprove sourcing governance and controls by partnering with business stakeholders, Finance, Legal, Security, and Accounts Payable to reduce non-PO purchasing, standardize intake, and improve contract and approval discipline.\nCreate practical supplier-management playbooks for renewals, business reviews, usage and service-level analysis, risk escalation, cost optimization, payment terms, and service continuity.\nTurn invoice, contract, usage, and supplier-performance data into recommendations that influence stakeholder decisions and support delivery of tactical business targets.\nAbout You\nWe get excited about candidates, like you, because...\nYou have 5+ years of strategic sourcing, category management, procurement, or vendor-management experience, including 4+ years supporting technology categories.\nYou have led RFx events, supplier selection, commercial negotiations, and contract reviews for software subscriptions, cloud or infrastructure services, technical services, outsourced support, or managed-service providers.\nYou understand common technology commercial models, including SaaS subscription terms, cloud or consumption-based pricing, service-level agreements, support terms, renewal mechanics, data/security review touchpoints, and implementation or transition risk.\nYou can analyze complex spend, invoice, renewal, usage, and supplier-performance data and use the findings to determine sourcing strategy, stakeholder recommendations, and practical next steps.\nYou are an effective, influential communicator who can advise stakeholders outside your area of expertise and balance speed, risk, continuity, cost, and governance across Product, Engineering, IT, Security, Finance, Legal, and Accounts Payable.\nYou have business-level English for global supplier negotiations; Spanish-language fluency is preferred for local collaboration in Mexico City.\nYou have a bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.\nAbout the Team\nThe Strategic Sourcing team is building category ownership across Crunchyroll's highest-priority supplier areas, including Technology, Marketing, and Operations/Localization. The team partners across the business to improve supplier strategy, contract discipline, purchase-order coverage, renewal readiness, supplier performance, and commercial value without slowing business execution. This role will serve as the primary sourcing partner for Technology stakeholders and will coordinate with other category leads where suppliers span multiple areas of the business.\n#LifeAtCrunchyroll #LI-Hybrid\nAbout our Values\nWe want to be everything for someone rather than something for everyone and we do this by living and modeling our values in all that we do. We value\nCourage. We believe that when we overcome fear, we enable our best selves.\n\nCuriosity. We are curious, which is the gateway to empathy, inclusion, and understanding.\n\nKaizen. We have a growth mindset committed to constant forward progress.\nService. We serve our community with humility, enabling joy and belonging for others.\n\nOur commitment to diversity and inclusion\nOur mission of helping people belong reflects our commitment to diversity & inclusion. It's just the way we do business.\nWe are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Crunchyroll. Pursuant to applicable law, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.\nCrunchyroll, LLC is an independently operated joint venture between US-based Sony Pictures Entertainment, and Japan's Aniplex, a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc., both subsidiaries of Tokyo-based Sony Group Corporation.\nQuestions about Crunchyroll’s hiring process? Please check out our Hiring FAQs: https://help.crunchyroll.com/hc/en-us/articles/360040471712-Crunchyroll-Hiring-FAQs\nPlease refer to our Candidate Privacy Policy for more information about how we process your personal information, and your data protection rights: https://tbcdn.talentbrew.com/company/22978/v1_0/docs/spe-jobs-privacy-policy-update-for-crpa-dec-21-22.pdf\nPlease beware of recent scams to online job seekers. 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