Marketing Global Category Manager
On-siteBudapest, Budapest, Hungary
Job Summary
Lead global category strategy for key Castrol categories, defining sourcing approaches including build vs buy and vendor models with clear commercial rate cards. Manage end-to-end category operational excellence through leading teams, fostering supplier partnerships, and navigating complex multi-national business environments. Provide strategic steer in major negotiations with global and regional suppliers while acting as the senior commercial partner to global Marketing leadership. Drive transformational change initiatives, leverage digital tools for innovation, and cultivate high-performing teams focused on continuous improvement and triple bottom line value.
Required Qualifications
- Degree educated - something related to Business, Marketing, Procurement
- Proven experience in Marketing category procurement
- Critical thinking with excellent commercial competence
- An understanding of working in and navigating complex multi-national businesses
- The ability to evaluate innovative solutions and manage risk
- Judgement in order to translate business requirements into a strategic category plan
- Leading the category and lead their team in managing the category
- Leading end to end execution of the category strategy across the organization
- Senior stakeholder networking and influencing skills
- Regular interaction with external suppliers and representing Castrol externally
- Effective change management
- Exceptional influencing, engagement and storytelling abilities
- Persevering through organizational complexity and resistance to change
- Travel Requirement: Up to 10% travel should be expected with this role
- This position is a hybrid of office/remote working
- Agility core practices
- Agility tools
- Analytical Thinking
- Business Acumen
- Business Requirements Analysis
- Category spend profiling
- Category Strategy
- Cost modelling
- Digital Fluency
- Negotiating
- Negotiation planning and preparation
- Product and market intelligence
- Supplier Performance Management
- Supplier Relationship Management
- Value creation and management
Desired Qualifications
- Post graduate qualification related to procurement desirable
- Degree educated - something related to Business, Marketing, Procurement preferred
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