Senior Category Manager Procurement – Marketing Services

Slough/Dusseldorf

As our Senior Category Manager, primarily responsible for our new media agency partnership with Publicis, you’ll play a crucial role in delivering our Group media strategy alongside the Intersnack Group International Media Manager. This is a high-profile role, working closely with our Group Marketing Director and Director of Business Development.

Job Purpose

• To act as a senior leader within Intersnack marketing community and Intersnack Procurement
• To drive and implement best in class marketing sourcing strategies across the Group and within Management Units to deliver costs saving and increased marketing effectiveness across our brands
• To lead negotiations within a negotiation team, especially Media and Financial Audit results across all markets
• To run tender in various areas of Marketing
• To lead commercial discussions internal and external and being the link to Legal Advisors
• To give advice to internal stakeholders in terms of interpretation of contractual rights and obligations
• To be the commercial relationship owner for Publicis Group who manage our media spend, driving their strategic performance and measuring their effectiveness in close co-operation with the International Media Manager of the Intersnack Group
• To develop and implement a marketing procurement excellence toolkit (how to pitch, evaluation of agency performance etc.), to provide a standardised approach of marketing operations
• To build and maintain strong agency relationships that drive additional value for Intersnack

The ideal individual

• Passion for marketing and creativity
• Ability to jump into different roles for tactical negotiation situations
• Proven track record in marketing procurement
• Confident, articulate and a proactive thinker
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Team player
• Commercially minded
• Intrinsically motivated with the ability to generate ideas and solutions

Essential skills and experience

• Demonstrate excellence in the ability to deliver the Group media strategy including value and cost savings through our media partnership
• Proven strong stakeholder management throughout all levels of an organisation
• Significant experience in Marketing Performance, Agency Management & Commercial Excellence
• Detailed working knowledge of ‘Marketing operations’ and the processes to support this
• Proven ability to professionally deal with unexpected issues arising throughout the delivery of complex projects
• Strong negotiation skills
• Reading and understanding of contractual langue
• Commercial understanding of complex internal deals
• Gravitas to be able to act as a strategic or tactical Lead in front of senior stakeholders
• Clear articulation of the strategy and ability to summarise succinctly often complex marketing principles and logic
• Degree level educated
• Experience of working in a European/global environment.
• Marketing procurement position held

If you’re looking for a performing and growing business that can offer you a positive challenge, working with great people and brands, we want to hear from you.