Gi Group as a partner of MSC PROCUREMENT & LOGISTICS il looking for a CATEGORY MANAGER The Category Manager supports the buyer team to: - Identify and evaluate suppliers - Analyze suppliers’ quotations and contract bids, verifying and negotiating contract terms, such as price, quality and delivery conditions - Negotiate a wide range of Food & Beverage product worldwide, verifying delivery conditions with Logistics departments - Pro-actively keeps up to date with all market trends and actively use market research to strategically plan future purchases - Verify that standard documents and suppliers’ profiles are up to date ensuring they are consistent with the latest Company guidelines - Manage products quality discrepancies, verifying them and soliciting feedback from suppliers - Source Food & Beverage products, according to Corporates Chefs instructions and supports them during products tests and suppliers’ visits - Communicate with the Accounting department for the resolution of invoice queries/anomalies, by confirming contract prices and ensuring suppliers are charging correctly - Support Ship Customer Service Team in solving sourcing issues. The job holder will also carry out the following activities: - Liaising with other area of the business, as Product & Project department to align common actions and goals in order to provide an excellence of service and to achieve procurement targets - Pro-actively managing and building appropriate relationships with suppliers - Preparing reports and maintaining accurate records - Pro-actively working with Logistics and Warehouse, coordinating, when necessary, delivery operations to the vessels. The ideal applicant meets these requirements: - Comprehensive understanding of food purchase process developed through previous 3 or 5-years’ experience in a similar purchasing role - Good knowledge of Food & Beverage products, HACCP along with Food & Beverage market trends - Strong ability to analyze data with strategic vision - Knowledge of business operating systems/platforms - Good communicate and negotiating skills - Ability to coordinate a team - Availability to travel. We offer a permanent contract with the company Full time, Monday to Friday Workplace: Genoa lavoro temporaneo, Permanent e Professional Staffing, Ricerca e Selezione, Consulenza HR, Formazione, Outsourcing, supporto alla ricollocazione e attività complementari. Siamo presenti in più di 30 Paesi in Europa, Asia e America con un team di oltre 6000 persone. I valori che ci contraddistinguono: Gi Group S.P.A. è autorizzata ad operare dal Ministero del Lavoro (Aut. Min. 26/11/2004 PROT. 1101 - SG).