Category Manager Packaging

About The Role

As a Packaging Category Manager you will be tasked with accurately procuring packaging materials at the best overall value ready for production, ensuring that quality, cost and delivery are all balanced. You will be working with suppliers covering all aspects of the purchase from putting commercial terms in place to ensuring that packaging materials are delivered as per agreed conditions. You will be managing the strategic sourcing process for specific assigned categories of packaging materials over Barry Callebaut sites primarily in Europe and Africa, as well as globally, according to the defined strategies and drive to increasingly incorporate best in class techniques and industry benchmarks.

Key Responsibilities Include

• Prepare & implement the sourcing category strategy for the materials in scope, in close collaboration with the category buyers team and Packaging Sourcing Director, to make sure that purchasing goals are well ach...