Assistant Category Manager Job in Maersk Tankers

Key Responsibilities

The candidate will be responsible in assisting the Category Manager within categories like IT, Professional Services, HR Services, Facility Management, Corporate Real Estate, Travel Management and provide support around general category management and sourcing.

Responsibilities include
- Assist in creating and negotiating supplier contracts from the very first supplier communication till final archiving and updating price catalogues in IT systems and making contract available to internal stakeholders
- Implement sourcing projects by both directing and supporting
- Deliver on saving targets and provide value according to business needs
- Ensure a strong project pipeline through focused interaction and detailed value add proposals for each category area
- Ensure roll out and implementation of procurement IT systems, hereunder, update and maintain catalogues and prices

What we are looking for

An ideal candidate should be someone who can thrive in a dynamic and fast paced environment with a background as a project manager, assistant procurement manager or assistant category manager with 2 to 4 years of experience in strategic sourcing, supplier negotiations, contract management, project management and category management.

Added abilities include
- Good English communication skills, both written and verbal, motivated with an ability to work separately and in a team
- Ability to engage with stakeholders and handle expectations
- Keen negotiator with an ability to handle the sourcing process
- Solid experience from associate category manager position within IT or other indirect materials and services category
- Ability to bring several projects to successful conclusion at the same time
- Flair for IT and process optimization