Senior Category Manager dfm

Why You & We

Are you detail orientied analytical and a tough negotiator Do you enjoy working in an international startup environment and would you like to play a key role in shaping and expanding our flexible plastics category

Then we look forward to welcoming you to our wonderful team soon! You will work closely with our Head of Supply and take on a lot of responsibility in this role right from the start.

Senior Category Manager

As a Senior Category Manager you will take ownership of our largest category of flexible plastics and helps Packmatic to become the largest sourcing channel of this product type in Europe in the next years. Your tasks will vary from P&L responsibility strategy development and handson execution to negotiating competitive pricing & conditions for our customers. Be ready to grow our supplybase to the next level and take care of our key suppliers with creating long term partnerships.

In addition to strategic and creative thinking it is particularly important to us that you are a team player enjoy working from our office in the heart of Berlin and with our teams in packaging sales and leadership.

Tasks

• Taking full ownership of our largest category; being the key person who helps Packmatic become the largest sourcing channel of this product type in Europe in the next 57 years
• Endtoend category ownership incl. P&L responsibility strategy development and handson execution negotiating competitive pricing & conditions for our customers
• Create long term partnerships with our key suppliers working to ensure they unlock value on our platform
• Be highly motivated to independently learn the technical details of the category and become the expert for flexible packaging across Europe
• Scale our supplybase to the next level
• Partnering crossfunctionally with our packaging technology teams our customer facing sales teams and leadership to steer the overall direction of your category

Requirements

• You have 57 years experience in a buying or account management on the supply side of a marketplace
• You have proven experience leading and executing a high volume of negotiations (up to CLevel) demonstrating the ability to unlock mutually beneficial outcomes in a wide variety of situations
• You have demonstrated success project managing (ideally also crossfunctionally) a category or portfolio over several years; exceeding revenue and margin targets
• You are scrappy detail oriented and with a builder mindset taking the lead on a complex product category becoming an industry expert & defacto business owner internally (up to founder level)
• You are a strategic and creative thinker who can turn research and data into actionable plans
• Fluent English as mandatory fluency in German and/or Polish a plus

Benefits

At Packmatic youll be part of a great team where everyones work is appreciated and valued. Additionally close communication productive and mutually appreciative cooperation constant learning from each other and fun at work are important to us. Besides this...

• Ownership: You will be part of a highly motivated and diverse buying team and you will have a high degree of freedom and responsibilities early on
• Impact: Join us at an early stage shape our technology and work with an exceptional team!Flexibility: Flexible work arrangements (i.e. flexible home office)
• Leadership: You will work in a company with an inspiring vision led by an experienced founder team and backed by leading investors!
• Goodvibes: Appreciation and commitment > We believe in fair compensation (fixed equity) and you will benefit from a clear growth and development path

Not a 100% match but you have skills that you think we cant do without We always look forward to meeting spectacular candidates so please dont hesitate to apply anyway. We are also hiring for attitude values and personality and we would love to develop our skills together.

We are looking forward to your application! :)

At Packmatic we appreciate diversity! Were committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of your gender religion age sexual orientation ethnicity disability or origin. We care for each other and are grateful for each persons contribution to our mission!

About Packmatic:

We are rethinking the packaging market. We are creating solutions to bring the packaging industry into the digital age and improve its environmental footprint.

Our solution is so well received by our customers that we get 4050 requests a week and we recently raised a Series A round of 15 million from leading VCs (lead investors: EQT & HV Capital). If you are as motivated as we are to modernize one of the largest B2B industries in the world and make a real impact in a very fastgrowing digital startup in the heart of Berlin youve come to the right place. We have digitized the packaging procurement of numerous satisfied SME & Enterprise customers and helped them save tons of plastic but thats just the beginning.