Category Manager Primary Packaging

Are you ready for perhaps the BIGGEST challenge of your life?
Do you see yourself as savvy and smart operating procurement and/or packaging professional with a huge appetite for learning, growing and making impact? Then you might be the Category Manager we are looking for! We have a super nice position where you can work, learn and grow with the best 😊.

And when we say big, we mean BIG: from our 34 factories we sold 710.000 metric tons of snacks in 2023. With a turnover of nearly €4.5 billion in 2024, we are one of the largest snack producers in Europe. Being privately owned, we can operate our business with a long-term view and commit ourselves to a more sustainable world. In Dusseldorf, Zevenaar and Slough we manage the procurement portfolio for the entire Intersnack Group. Big enough for you?

You prefer to play this game in a, collegial, and very international team, and for a financially healthy organization where we always look at today's challenges with tomorrow and the day after in mind.

Your BIG challenge as our Category Manager Primary Packaging

This is an important position within our Intersnack Procurement Organisation, providing high visibility and the opportunity to have close collaboration with our very dynamic & fast-growing Dutch Intersnack management unit in Doetinchem. After a solid onboarding period you will become responsible for international purchasing activities of Rigid packaging category. The TCO (total cost of ownership) approach is the way to go, while stakeholder management, especially with our management unit located in Doetinchem, is a mandatory. Of course you’ll be having strong collaboration with your colleagues in Procurement, Packaging Development Team and Marketing. Cost improvement initiatives, Risk management, Portfolio standardisation and Supply Base simplification are critical to be successful in the role. The Category Manager reports to the Senior Category Manager Primary Packaging (Germany based) and will ideally be based in Zevenaar (NL) or Düsseldorf (DE).

Your responsibilities:

• Collaborating with new and existing rigid suppliers.

• Responsibility for tactical and strategic sourcing for assigned category scope.

• Principal communicator of policy and strategy between Procurement and the management units.

• Act as the expert for the wider packaging team in terms of Management Unit collaboration with the Intersnack Procurement team and suppliers.

• Provide high level analytical support on complex databases that is needed for strategy development and tracking of compliance to strategy.

• Lead the defined supplier meeting / reviews following specific KPIs for commercial & operational subjects.

• Advance and foster close working relationship with key stakeholders, being the linking pin with the local management unit.

• Deliver Intersnack Group objectives in terms of cost, quality, service, and innovation.

• Promote and manage a robust supplier base to secure the Procurement targets for compliance and reporting.

• Responsibility for implementation of the sustainability targets of Intersnack Group, compliance requirements and category strategy.

• Ensure security of supply and special requisitions, especially regarding local requirements.
  
  

Collaborating with new and existing rigid suppliers.

Responsibility for tactical and strategic sourcing for assigned category scope.

Principal communicator of policy and strategy between Procurement and the management units.

Act as the expert for the wider packaging team in terms of Management Unit collaboration with the Intersnack Procurement team and suppliers.

Provide high level analytical support on complex databases that is needed for strategy development and tracking of compliance to strategy.

Lead the defined supplier meeting / reviews following specific KPIs for commercial & operational subjects.

Advance and foster close working relationship with key stakeholders, being the linking pin with the local management unit.

Deliver Intersnack Group objectives in terms of cost, quality, service, and innovation.

Promote and manage a robust supplier base to secure the Procurement targets for compliance and reporting.

Responsibility for implementation of the sustainability targets of Intersnack Group, compliance requirements and category strategy.

Ensure security of supply and special requisitions, especially regarding local requirements.