Regional Category Manager – Dubai

The position is based in Sharjah (Dubai) UAE.

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We are looking for a Regional Category Manager specialized in food products, especially proteins.

To complement the Regional Procurement Team, we are looking for a Regional Category Manager for the ‘dry/chilled/fresh/frozen provisions’ category. In this role, you will become a strategic partner and have overall responsibility for creating, maintaining, and improving inbound supply chains for the Wrist Ship Supply organization through building relations with the regional vendor community and create the best possible sourcing position for Wrist, considering total cost price, quality, availability and logistics.

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 consumer requirements.

With reference to our Regional Procurement manager, you will become part a strong Regional team, where you will work close with the sales team in analyzing market data and identify the relevant assortments, based on our customers’ consumer patterns.

The position is based in Sharjah (Dubai) UAE.

Key responsibilities:

• Total cost optimization: Analyse 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 (Days of Payment Outstanding, Days of Sales Inventory).
• Utilize our warehouse capacity with in-depth analysis of sales trend, commodity development and product movement.
• Contract coverage and compliance.
• Drive and develop category strategy, including objectives and targets and execute on global category strategies agreed with global category manager
• Assortment development and execution: Understand consumer patterns and translate the data into new products/assortments and/or new vendors. Optimize assortments and COGS throughout the organization by leading the definition, item alignment and roll out of global and regional assortment programs
• Supplier relations management to maximize cooperation.

Qualifications & requirements:

• As a person you are result oriented, decisive and action oriented. You manage your stakeholders well and can drive alignment. Your approach is data driven and your decisions are based on facts.
• You possess strong negotiation-, communication- and influencing skills. You have a longer experience with global sourcing and a strong procurement toolbox. You have experience in building assortments in cooperation with sales.
• Preferrable 5+ years Procurement Category Management experience with specialty in the food category. Preferable experience from working in a global matrix organization.
• Global experience is an advantage

We offer:

You can look forward to a professional and challenging job 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 “Hard Working, Winning Attitude, and Customer Orientation”. The salary will correspond with your qualifications and results.

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Please go to LinkedIn to send your application following this link: Easy Apply on LinkedIn

Here you will also be able to contact Morten Steffensen, our Regional Procurement Manager for Far East & Middle East, if you have any questions.

About Wrist Ship Supply

Wrist Ship Supply is the world’s leading ship and offshore supplier of provisions and stores with a market share of around 9%. Wrist offers a global 24/7 service, including handling of owners’ goods, shipping, airfreight and related marine services that meet the demands of international organizations as well as local businesses.

From offices around the globe all Wrist staff takes pride in making it easy for customers to receive their supplies – where and when requested – efficiently and at the best possible price. Wrist’s mission is to provide expert care – making our customers’ life at sea better.

Since 2007, the majority shareholder in Wrist has been Altor Fund II.