Category Manager

2 weeks ago

Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand Gallagher Group Full time

About Gallagher
Our purpose at Gallagher is 'Protect what matters most' and we live it every day.

Not only does our technology protect some of the world's highest security environments and agriculture businesses but our purpose also means we care deeply about our people and their families.

With operations in New Zealand, Australia, Asia, Africa, USA, Canada, the UK and Europe and exports to over 130 countries, we provide our employees unrivalled globally focused career pathways.

Our culture is entrepreneurial in spirit, complex, challenging and ever changing.

We have a strong focus on keeping up to date with technology and industry trends through mentoring, regular knowledge sharing seminars, conferences, and by working alongside customers who encourage us to push the boundaries every day.


The Opportunity
We have an exciting opportunity for a Category Manager to deliver exceptional results in our Traded Goods procurement category.

This is one of our larger Procurement categories, managing one direct report and is responsible for the delivery of a mix of engineered products supporting production, quality shelf ready products for our customers and components for our very busy manufacturing facility in Hamilton.

You will be required to interact and influence stakeholders within our organisation as well as with our local and global supply chain.

With your proven experience, you will be adept at relationship building, building category strategy and category planning, and delivering best outcomes for the business.


The core functions of the role are:

  • To manage supplier performance for the category.
  • Price negotiation.
  • Perform sourcing activities.
  • Effectively manage inventory stock turns.
  • Develop and maintain a strategic plan for this category.

To be considered for this role, you will have:

  • You will have either a business or engineering tertiary qualification.
  • Experience working in a traded goods environment.
  • Purchasing or category management background.
  • Strong negotiation skills.
  • SAP experience, preferably.
  • Customer service focused.
  • Good communication skills written and oral.
  • Effective influencer and builder of relationships.

What we offer

  • A caring family culture and strong values, 94 per cent of our people say they're proud to work for Gallagher,
  • A competitive salary and bonus opportunities,
  • Flexibility to balance life and work commitments,
  • When you're in the office, we offer a modern environment, free parking, subsidised onsite café and great eateries nearby
  • Access to our community giving programme, enabling you to do some volunteer work, ask Gallagher to donate to an organisation you're involved in, or take part in a corporate challenge
  • Discounts at some of New Zealand's favourite stores
  • Plenty of fun along the way team building events, a companywide endofyear Christmas function, inspiring guest speakers, and team lunches.

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