Global Category Manager

We are looking for a Global Category Manager on behalf of Wrist Ship Supply

Do you thrive with the responsibility of managing strategic sourcing of Non-Food Products and category management, by building relations with the global vendor community and creating the best possible sourcing position for Wrist considering total cost price, quality, availability, logistics and ensuring customer centricity?

Wrist Ship Supply is looking for a Global Category Manager specialized in sourcing technical articles with both global and local product- and sourcing experience. You will have significant freedom in building and maintaining a strong supplier portfolio, initiate and close significant contract negotiations and generally keep abreast of category market movements and customer requirements.

With reference to our Head of Global Category Management, you will become part of a strong Global Category Management team within a growing organization. You will have two fellow Global Category Managers within Stores, as well as two Global Category Manager colleagues on Provision. You will also work with our Category Coordinators and regional category managers around the world.

In this role, you will work closely with the sales team, in which you will analyze the market data and identify the relevant assortments matching customer needs and sourced according to your developed global category strategies.

More specifically, your key responsibilities will be:

Total cost optimization:

• Analyzing purchasing trends, commodity development, execute benchmarking and convert into financial improvement of the business.
• Search the market for identification of new vendors and opportunities and incorporate those in the business.
• Working Capital optimization (Payment Terms & Days of Sales Inventory)
• Vendor Consolidation and vendor integration of full catalogue digital data
• Contract coverage and compliance

Category Strategy development and execution:

• Execute procurement strategy and translate into objectives and targets

Assortment development and execution:

• Understand consumer patterns and translate the data in to new products/assortments and/or new vendors
• Optimize assortments and Landed Cost per item throughout the organization by leading the definition, item alignment and roll out of global and regional assortment programs
• Supplier relations management to maximize cooperation
• Deliver saving budgets and deliver on key procurement KPI´s

In this role annual travel will be around 20-30 days, primarily for supplier meetings, attending trade fairs, and meeting colleagues from around the world.

Personality matters

As a person, you are trustworthy, self-driven, resilient, open minded and possess a high level of business acumen to generate tangible value for the customers and Wrist.

Qualifications & requirements
Preferably, you have a strong background in sourcing, purchasing or sales, with experience in global sourcing and category management related to Stores products (Non-Food items).

In addition, you possess 5-10 years of demonstrated experience leading global sourcing across various Non-Food categories ensuring strong supplier relations and extensive experience of optimizing cost levels i within each category.

We expect you to have the following qualifications:

• As a person you are result-oriented, analytical strong, decisive, and action-driven.
• You effectively manage your stakeholders and drive alignment
• Your approach is data driven and your decisions are based on facts
• You possess strong negotiation-, communication- and influencing skills
• You have extensive experience with global sourcing and a strong procurement toolbox
• You have some experience in building assortments in cooperation with sales
• Experience being project lead of development of category strategies and sourcing strategies
• Global experience is a significant advantage, as is high proficiency in English

It is an advantage if you also have a strong business and economic understanding either through a Master degree or relevant courses.

We offer more than just a job

You can look forward to a professional and challenging job with high level of empowerment in a global company with an ambitious growth strategy. We offer a positive, informal and international working environment where you will be surrounded by skilled colleagues. We wish to be the best at what we do, and everything we do, is based on our values of “Winning Attitude, Customer Orientation and Getting it Done.

We offer a competitive salary package taking your skills and qualifications into consideration and we offer flexible working hours and numerous employee benefits.

About Wrist

Wrist is the world’s leading ship and offshore supplier of marine provisions and stores with a market share of approximately 12%. We are the only provisions and stores marine supplier with a global network of supply operations. We also offer services within owners’ goods and spare parts logistics, combining provisions and stores deliveries directly to the vessels.

With the launch of the digital marketplace, Source2Sea, Wrist is leading the digital transformation of the marine supply industry. All year round, we offer 24/7 global online sourcing and logistics, providing data transparency, automation, and convenience to our customers.

We continuously work on reducing our climate impact while at the same time proactively addressing our customers’ growing demand and need for responsible solutions and services.

From more than 30 locations worldwide, in all major shipping locations, 1,800 Wrist employees take pride in making it easy for our customers to order and receive marine supplies and services.