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Category Manager - Additives

Location: 

Barcelona, ES Prague, CZ

Department:  Procurement
Full-time or Part-time:  Full-Time
Job Type:  Employee
Shift:  On site

Accelerate the possible by joining a winning Amcor team that’s transforming the packaging industry and improving lives around the world.

At Amcor, we unpack possibility through our innovative and responsible packaging to provide solutions that benefit our customers, our people and our planet.  More than 10,000 consumers worldwide encounter our products every second and rely on us for safe access to food, medicine and other goods. We value their trust by making safety our guiding principle. It’s our core value and integral to how we do business.

Beyond this core principle, our shared values and behaviors unite us as we work together to elevate customers, shape lives and protect the future. We champion our customers and help them succeed. We play to win – adapting quickly in an everchanging world – and make smart choices to safeguard our business, our communities and the people we serve for generations to come. And we invest in our world-class team, empowering our colleagues to unpack their potential, because we believe when our people grow, so does our business.

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About the role

We are seeking a Category Manager Additives managing an annual spend of around $100M+. This is a highly strategic position focused on driving consolidation within existing supply chains, enabling Amcor to fully leverage its scale and deliver cost efficiencies. The role requires strong leadership in supplier management, strategic sourcing, and collaboration across regional and global teams to optimize procurement processes and strengthen our competitive advantage.

Key Job Accountabilities

  1. Drive commercial negotiations across suppliers and regions.
  2. Lead contract discussions ensuring compliance and value creation.
  3. Build reliable data sets to run RFQ tenders at regional and global levels.
  4. Work closely with R&D to improve material flexibility and enhance purchasing leverage.
  5. Align with site operations to communicate changes in suppliers and materials.
  6. Execute strategies that deliver value and increase Amcor’s technical and commercial leverage.
  7. Drive supplier and grade rationalization to optimize cost and performance.
  8. Identify opportunities for consolidation and innovation within the category.
  9. Deliver market insights and cost forecasts to support business decisions.
  10. Monitor industry trends and assess risks to maintain competitive advantage.
  11. Act as a key member of the global category team, representing EMEA.
  12. Track performance against category strategy and report progress.
  13. Support global initiatives and share best practices across regions.

Qualifications/Requirements

  1. Result orientated, strategic, work within a matrix structure
  2. Inquistive, confident communicator, agile
  3. Excellent negotiation and analytical skills.
  4. Ability to develop and implement category strategies that deliver value
  5. Strong communication and stakeholder management skills across multiple regions
  6. Proficiency in procurement systems and data analysis tools (SAP, Excel, Power BI)
  7. Fluent in English; additional European languages are an advantage..Good relationship manager (make and maintain professional contacts with different people at different levels in and outside the company)

 

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About Amcor
Amcor is the global leader in developing and producing responsible consumer packaging and dispensing solutions across a variety of materials for nutrition, health, beauty and wellness categories. Our global product innovation and sustainability expertise enables us to solve packaging challenges around the world every day, producing a range of flexible packaging, rigid packaging, cartons and closures that are more sustainable, functional and appealing for our customers and their consumers. We are guided by our purpose of elevating customers, shaping lives and protecting the future. Supported by a commitment to safety, over 75,000 people generate $23 billion in annualized sales from operations that span over 400 locations in more than 40 countries.
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