Crunchyroll
Category Manager-Localization
Los Angeles, California, United States · Senior
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About the role
- This role focuses on executing sourcing events, analyzing vendor proposals, coordinating contract reviews, and maintaining supplier performance data in partnership with senior sourcing leadership.
- Conduct vendor and market research, prepare rate comparisons, and analyze spend data to identify potential savings and efficiency opportunities.
- Execute sourcing events and RFx processes in partnership with senior sourcing leaders, ensuring stakeholder alignment, documentation accuracy, and timely completion.
Responsibilities
- Support execution of sourcing initiatives for localization services such as dubbing, subtitling, and accessibility, rate benchmarking, and contract negotiation.
- Draft and manage MSA/SOW templates with guidance from Legal; track redlines, ensure version control, and finalize documentation for execution.
- Maintain supplier data, rate cards, and purchase order accuracy in procurement systems; monitor spend trends and report key metrics for assigned categories.
- Collaborate with Localization, Content Operations, and Marketing Localization teams to route requests correctly and support intake prioritization.
Nice to have
- You have 5+ years of experience in Strategic Sourcing, Procurement, or Category Execution, ideally in media localization, post-production, or creative services.
- You have hands-on experience running RFPs, supporting negotiations, and performing vendor analysis.
- You're comfortable working with procurement systems (Coupa or similar) and tracking spend accuracy.
- You understand localization and post-production workflows (dubbing, subtitling, accessibility) and are eager to deepen your expertise in these categories.
- You're familiar with MSA/SOW templates and contract coordination, escalating bespoke terms when needed.
- You hold a Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain, or a related field.
- RFx throughput and cycle time (from intake to award) for assigned projects.
- Savings achieved vs. baseline rates and rate-card accuracy.
Compensation
- Competitive compensation including base salary and annual performance bonus
Company info
- About Crunchyroll
- Founded by fans, Crunchyroll delivers the art and culture of anime to a passionate community.
- 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.
- Join our team, and help us shape the future of anime!
- Competitive compensation including base salary and annual performance bonus
- Flexible time-off policies supporting work-life balance
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, STD, LTD, and life insurance
- HSA and FSA programs
- 401(k) plan with employer match
- Employer-paid commuter benefits
- Support programs for new parents
- Pet insurance and pet-friendly offices
- Courage. We believe that when we overcome fear, we enable our best selves.
- Curiosity. We are curious, which is the gateway to empathy, inclusion, and understanding.
- Kaizen. We have a growth mindset committed to constant forward progress.
- Service. We serve our community with humility, enabling joy and belonging for others.
This listing is sourced directly from Crunchyroll's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.