Global Category Manager - Glassware, Print & Parasols

Job Title: Global Category Manager – Glassware, Print & Parasols (POS Materials)

Location: Hemel Hempstead – Hybrid (2-3 days in office)

This role will include monthly international travel to various Carlsberg Group sites.

Job Length: Permanent – Full Time

Competitive Salary with extensive benefits:

• Monthly product allowance – alcoholic & non-alcoholic options available


• Private Medical options


• Life Assurance


• Company bonus scheme


• Access to 24/7 GP services


• Enhanced pension contribution


• Generous holiday (inc bank holidays)


• Access to a range of high street discounts

Carlsberg Group – Brewing for a better today and tomorrow

For us success has always been in the diverse mix of our people, our beers and our brands. At Carlsberg, we want to recruit and develop people with a global mindset, cultural understanding, and international experience to ensure that our organization stays agile, inclusive, and prepared for future growth. Only by acknowledging and harvesting from different perspectives and experiences, will we gain competitive advantage and leverage the effect of diversity for business growth.

About the role: 

We are now recruiting for a Global Category Manager – Glassware, Print & Parasols. This role will manage the optimisation for the above-mentioned POS materials across Carlsberg Group, ensuring the best value and right quality materials for our local businesses worldwide.

Role Responsibilities: 

• Managing and further improving the current portfolio of glassware, parasols & printed materials.


• Map categories’ spend cube and identify areas, sub-categories for optimization.


• Develop global category strategies for the different sub-categories of POS materials.


• Based on the category strategy either conduct global sourcing or develop best practice processes, tools and ways of working for the regions and markets to enable more efficient investment of these materials.


• Working with key senior global, regional and local stakeholders and procurement teams to deliver significant efficiencies in the POS materials area.

Experience and Key Attributes:

• Previous experience within Procurement or Trade Marketing of POS Materials.


• Demonstrable experience of category spend optimisation, sourcing strategy development and execution and solid project management.


• Fluent in English, with effective communication skills both verbally and written.


• Effective stakeholder management skills with the ability to work across functions collaboratively.

Our commitment to diversity equity & inclusion

We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences - including those of different races, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, ages, abilities, religions, and socioeconomic statuses. We actively seek to create a safe and inclusive environment for all of our colleagues, where diverse perspectives are welcomed, and inclusive practices are embedded in everything we do.

 We are happy to support accessibility needs, to ensure a fair and equitable experience for all candidates, so please do let us know if you require any adjustments during the recruitment process.

Application Process:

We read applications continuously, and vacancies may be filled anytime, so please apply as early as possible.

We look forward to receiving your application

This is an exciting time to join our newly formed business – with their incredible individual history’s, innovation of products and some of the UK’s most iconic brands, Carlsberg Britvic strives to deliver the best service to our customers and consumers. We aim to make a difference, bringing together two diverse companies, our global reach enables opportunity, growth and a chance to work with some fantastic people.