Category manager Jobs in Hamburg

Introduction

Carnival Maritime GmbH is part of Carnival Corporation and serves the brands of AIDA Cruises and Costa Crociere as their marine service unit. The company bundles marine operation competencies and best practices providing the highest safety, health, environmental and compliance standards for cruising. With the aspiration of achieving net carbon-neutral ship operations by 2050, Carnival Maritime has established a new center of excellence with a specific mandate to support the company by defining and executing the decarbonization strategy and its associated multidimensional technological challenges.With its service and innovation, Carnival Maritime enables the vessels of AIDA Cruises and Costa Crociere to meet the current and future needs of the cruise industry.

If you want to join our company based in Hamburg, and be part of our culture this is your opportunity, we are looking for a suitable candidate to fill the following position :

Your Responsibilities

• Management of our categories and permanent developing of our supplier and risk management
• Developing strategies in alignment with our corporate brand and sister brands.
• Executing and coordinating of sourcing projects, including fact base gathering, defining a sourcing approach, tendering products, negotiating with suppliers, aligning of decisions, ensuring professional preparation, and finalization of project contracts with regard to time, cost and quality
• Insuring a rigorous application of the negotiated contract and a return of experience
• Assessing processes and spend in scope and develop optimization opportunities
• Working closely with internal stakeholders and suppliers to implement category related savings and process improvement opportunities
• Coordinating and driving of activities performed by Technical Procurement
• Application of company policies & processes including the agreed Sourcing Management methodology and approach to deliver robust terms and conditions

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