(Senior) Category Manager Property - Indirect Procurement (f/m/x)

at  HelloFresh

At HelloFresh, we want to change the way people eat forever by offering our customers high-quality food and recipes for different meal occasions. Over the past 10 years, we’ve seen this mission spread around the world and beyond our wildest dreams. Now, we are a global food solutions group and the world’s leading meal kit company, active in 18 countries across 3 continents. So, how did we do it? Our weekly boxes full of exciting recipes and fresh ingredients have blossomed into a community of customers looking for delicious, healthy, and sustainable options. The HelloFresh Group now includes our core brand, HelloFresh, as well as: Green Chef, EveryPlate, Chefs Plate, Factor_, and Youfoodz.
The role
The (Senior) Category Manager Property & Production Equipment will be responsible for overseeing category management, strategic sourcing and contracting in Hello Fresh International for office and production facilities, including leasing/rent, production equipment, MRO, and utilities. The goal is to collaborate seamlessly with stakeholders and suppliers in all international markets and help them to navigate the procurement landscape. In addition, the role will be supporting initiatives targeted to increase the maturity level of Indirect Procurement’s processes and systems landscape. As part of the Property & Logistics Procurement team the position will report to the respective cluster lead (Director level).
We are looking for an ambitious, confident, entrepreneurial, and high-spirited Procurement professional with a strength for data processing, optimisation & reporting, attention to detail and great stakeholder management ability.
Above all, we are looking for people who will make HelloFresh better. We believe there are many different ways of developing skills and we love diverse experiences! So even if you don’t “tick all the boxes” but think you’d thrive in this role, we would really like to learn more about you.

• Conduct detailed spend analysis and benchmarking, evaluate market and competitive conditions, and use as a basis to create data based category strategies and sourcing activities
• Align and execute a sourcing roadmap with key stakeholders in the HQ and the local markets to deliver P&L savings and overall procurement value
• Develop and optimize the supplier portfolio across Hello Fresh’s international markets
• Cultivate and manage close (senior level) relationships with business partners within Operations to support their objectives and the company growth agenda
• Act as the central point of contact for any Real Estate and production equipment related procurement questions
• Design and maintain category reporting to senior executives and internal stakeholders
• Lead or participate in the implementation of best-in-class procurement processes and tools