Category Manager 1

Do you want to be part of making everyday life easier for people around the world? Without seeing it, you meet us every day in your everyday life. We are in your soles, in your mobile and in the newspaper you read. With a common commitment to innovation, sustainability and safety, our employees work daily for a sustainable future.
We are now looking for our new PR Category Manager, Göteborg
Main responsibilities
In this role, you will be the procurement business partner of the relevant business lines within the Technology Solutions business for the assigned raw materials categories. Your direct focus will be EMEIA combined with a coordinator role for the regions Americas and APAC. The high impact at topline and bottomline results of raw material conditions causes joint ownership of business results with high visibility. It’s an individual contributor role.
You will be reporting to the Regional PR Procurement Manager. Location: Göteborg, Sweden.
Your mission is to make sure that Nouryon is positioned in the Raw Materials market with an advantage. You will face a high level of complexity and diversity in the categories and supplier base. Hence a critical element of the job will be to align stakeholders and get buy-in to drive standardization and consolidation of suppliers, products and services. You will be also expected to select and develop a supplier base that can successfully support the current operations as well as future projects and balance different business needs and requirements effectively.
Qualifications
Besides the commercial awareness you have a strong sense of accountability and ownership with a high level of autonomy to develop spend and cost reduction projects and execute on those together with stakeholders and other procurement members. You are able to communicate professionally with people at all levels of the organization and you are highly effective with stakeholder management. We hope that you are familiar with the next aspects we think are essential to have to make this job a success:
Bachelor/Masters Degree in a business related area/industry
Minimum 5 years’ experience of strategic procurement and category management;
Extensive negotiation experience and ability to influence people and selling concepts and ideas
Excellent relationship builder and skilled at managing external contacts.
Advanced strategic thinking skills and analytical mindset with ability to analyze data, understand interdependencies and develop and implement strategies at a regional or global category level
Comprehensive experience of working with international sourcing across regions in high complexity environment
Good presentation skills and ability to analyze data and technical requirements from different angles
Fluent in English and additional languages are an asset.
Proficient with MS Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint and data tools

Why join us?
Are you passionate about sustainability, innovation, safety, and collaboration? Do you want to grow together with a company that is forward-looking and continuously improving how they work? Our employees have ideas on how to build a sustainable future and the drive and passion to realize them. They believe that building long-term relationships and integrity are keys to success. If that describes you, we will gladly make way for your ambitions. We offer you countless career opportunities. From day one we support you with your personal growth, through challenging positions and comprehensive learning and development opportunities, in a dynamic, international, diverse, and proactive working environment.
​​​​​Additional information
This is a permanent position on a full-time basis placed in Göteborg and reporting to Regional Service Lead.
Please apply latest November 30 via our online recruitment system with an uploaded job specific resume and cover letter. We do not accept applications via e-mail, these applications will be disregarded.
For additional information about the vacancy please contact Regional PR Procurement Manager, Rolf Breslau phone: +31889841832
For information about the recruitment process, please contact Håkan Malmberg
Email: hakan.malmberg@nouryon.com
Akademikerklubben, Anna-Lena Palm, +46 733 855 113
Unionen, Magnus Svensson, +46 73 385 58 38
If you have any general questions or need assistance, please contact: Recruiting.SE@Nouryon.com
We have already chosen our sourcing channels for this recruitment and kindly ask not to be contacted by any advertisement agents, recruitment agencies or manning companies.