Added: 2025-07-07 18:32.31
Updated: 2025-07-07 19:05.03

Marketing Category Manager

Dublin, Ireland

Type: FULL_TIME

Category: MARKETING

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Is hybrid: No
Is remote: No
Employer: Google

Minimum qualifications:


Preferred qualifications:

About the job

In the Google Procurement Organization (GPO), our aim is to unlock the value for Google to reinvest in what matters most. We do this by bringing velocity, efficiency, and security to buying at Google, while partnering across Google to deliver solutions fit for purpose. As a centralized organization operating in a high complexity environment, we bring "one voice" to stakeholders and suppliers to ensure the best outcomes. Our organization fosters a culture of collaboration and innovation while providing opportunities for ongoing career growth and development.

Within the Google Procurement Organization, the Category Management team partners closely with key stakeholders to help shape and implement procurement strategies. The Category team is responsible for developing and driving holistic category strategies, managing stakeholder relationships, and bringing excellence to Google-wide sourcing, supplier, and agreement management.

In this role, you will be responsible for pioneering innovative category and sourcing strategies, cultivating supplier relationships, and optimizing spend categories through data-driven insights to unlock value for Google.

Responsibilities

  • Play an integral role in the development of multi-year global category plans and strategies across marketing events, media, and sponsorship sub-categories (e.g., including defining buying channels, supply base profiles, purchasing policies, SRM program, operational efficiencies, etc.).
  • Support alignment of procurement initiatives with stakeholder business objectives through an understanding of business requirements.
  • Participate in cross-functional teams executing category initiatives and help ensure delivery of maximum value across the procurement process.
  • Contribute to the compliance tracking of category specific policies, performance metrics, and analysis of market trends and leading practices.
  • Contribute to global marketing category strategy, working with Product Marketing Managers, Marketing suppliers, and cross-functional teams (e.g., Marketing Operations, Legal, FP&A, Contracting Operations, Commercial Operations, etc.).
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.
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