Category Manager - Cargo Operations/ Freight Forwarding

The Freight Forwarding and Cargo Operations Logistics Senior Advisor provides category leadership for their global category of spend.

They undertake category management and global supplier relationship management, driving end-to-end spend management to mitigate supply chain risk and maximize value delivery, including sustainability, within their category.

Key Accountabilities

• Category Strategy leadership: Collaborate to develop competitive category strategies that address business needs, both globally and regionally, supply chain risk and sustainability.
• Category excellence: Data led management of end-to-end category performance by working with the organisation to understand demand and ensure strategies that can be executed effectively in partnership with business and other procurement teams.
• Transformation and Change Management: Implement transformation initiatives, which deliver incremental business value.
• Team integration: Work within a team of category managers, embracing culture of collaboration, excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Supplier & Stakeholder Management: Uses storytelling to communicate with stakeholders and external partners, respectfully challenging to achieve the right outcomes, resolving conflict and focusing on priorities.

Essential Education:

• Degree educated - something related to Procurement preferred - or equivalent relevant professional experience
• Post graduate qualification related to procurement desirable

Essential Experience and Job Requirements:

• Functional knowledge: Knowledge of category management principles and experience in procurement processes and developing and executing category strategies.
• Business expertise: Stakeholder management and influencing skills in order to develop a deep understanding of the supported businesses / regions / assets and their priorities, including long term objectives.
• Leadership: An SME in the relevant category, who shares knowledge with the wider team and executes the strategy.
• Problem solving: The role requires analytical thinking to develop and evaluate solutions, as well as judgement to translate business requirements into actionable plans.
• Interpersonal skills: Strong interpersonal skills are essential for collaborating with the category team, engaging with global, diverse stakeholders, communicating impactfully across organisational levels and managing change effectively.

Benefits:

• A company culture where we respect our diverse and unified teams, where we are proud of our achievements and where fun and the demeanor of giving back to our environment are highly valued
• Possibility to join our social communities and networks
• Learning opportunities and other development opportunities to craft your career path
• Life and health insurance, medical care package