Category Manager Recommerce

• Application Deadline: Jan. 8 2026
• Multiple locations
• Hybrid

Job Description

THE OPPORTUNITY IN A NUTSHELL

You A commercially sharp insight-driven operator who knows how to grow categories balance supply and demand and create high-performing marketplace environments. You think strategically act decisively and love turning marketplace signals into real-world outcomes.
Role Lead the commercial performance of one or more priority Recommerce categories shaping strategy driving growth orchestrating cross-functional action and building the foundations of a new category management discipline at Vend.
Company Vend home of Tori Oikotie FINN Blocket DBA & Bilbasen where millions across the Nordics find what they need from home goods to mobility to a fresh start.
Location Aarhus Helsinki Oslo or Stockholm with flexibility to work 50% remotely. Your choice your balance.
Why us Youll be instrumental in shaping the future of circular commerce in the Nordics. This is a chance to build a craft from the ground up influence product and commercial direction and create measurable impact on marketplace health sustainability and business results.

Sounds like your cup of tea Dive deeper below!

WHO ARE YOU
You bring a blend of commercial instinct analytical depth and marketplace understanding. Youre equally comfortable crafting strategy and rolling up your sleeves to diagnose a trend or steer a weekly performance review.

You are someone with:

• 57 years of experience in ecommerce category management product management marketplace operations or similar roles where commercial performance is core.
• Strong commercial thinking able to balance supply demand pricing liquidity and monetisation in a dynamic transactional environment.
• Excellent analytical skills using marketplace signals and behavioural insights to drive prioritisation and decision-making.
• Proven experience working cross-functionally with product managers analysts marketers and commercial teams.
• A structured hands-on execution mindset comfortable with ambiguity adept at building foundations and motivated by solving complex marketplace challenges.
• Strong communication skills influencing without authority and bringing clarity to multi-stakeholder environments.
• Familiarity with marketplace liquidity dynamics pricing models funnels or BI tools (Tableau Looker PowerBI) is a plus curiosity and domain ownership matter just as much.

WHATS THE JOB LIKE

Your mission
As Category Manager for Recommerce you are the owner of your categorys commercial performance. Youll set the vision define the playbook steer the metrics and work across teams to strengthen supply demand pricing liquidity and overall marketplace health.

What your days might look like

• Developing and refining your category strategy including the vision roadmap pricing approach supply levers and promotional mechanics.
• Analysing behavioural signals pricing patterns and performance KPIs to uncover risks opportunities and growth levers.
• Leading weekly performance deep-dives: translating signals into actions aligning stakeholders and ensuring follow-through.
• Launching targeted initiatives across marketing pricing product and operations to improve liquidity supply balance conversion and GMV.
• Building scalable operating models including routines processes dashboards and playbooks that strengthen category management at Vend.
• Collaborating closely with cross-market peers product teams analysts and commercial leads to ensure alignment and drive measurable outcomes.

Key projects youll help shape

• Building Vends first category playbooks for Recommerce defining how categories are steered measured and operated.
• Designing smart pricing and liquidity mechanics in partnership with analytics and product.
• Identifying inventory gaps and shaping supply stimulation initiatives across markets.
• Influencing product development for automated pricing marketplace signals and category-level tooling.
• Running category-wide growth experiments and translating learnings into scaled improvements.

THE CHALLENGE AND THE OPPORTUNITY

Category management is new to Vend Recommerce. That means there are foundations to build routines to shape and tools to define. For someone who thrives in creation iteration and cross-functional orchestration this is a rare opportunity to leave your fingerprint on how a whole vertical operates across the Nordics.

Youre not inheriting a finished system youre helping design it.

A FEW WORDS FROM YOUR MANAGER

Hi Im Anders Director in Recommerce.

Our team is on a mission to create the strongest Recommerce marketplace experience in the Nordics. Were a cross-functional highly collaborative group working across marketing product analytics and commercial teams.

We value structured thinking curiosity and ownership. Youll join a team where experimentation is encouraged learning is continuous and your impact is visible from day one.

GOT YOUR ATTENTION LET US HEAR FROM YOU!

Submit your application by January 8th. Well start reviewing applications after the Christmas holidays.

QUESTIONS

Anders Spilling Director in Recommerce is happy to provide more insight into the day-to-day work and answer any questions. He can be reached at .