Global Category Manager, Marketing

Global Category Manager - Marketing 

Are you ready to take on a newly created role with exciting opportunities within a leading global company? Do you want to execute Marketing projects in close cooperation with our Global Category Manager for Media & Marketing and the rest of the Global Indirect Procurement organization?  

  

Then apply for the new position as Global Category Manager - Marketing and work together with a cross-functional team of people from different backgrounds within one of the fastest-growing retail brands globally! 

  

Global role with exciting opportunities 

Media & Marketing is the biggest single category spend area within Pandora and of ongoing increasing strategic importance. We are looking for an additional colleague to take the newly created position as Global Category Manager - Marketing. 

In this role, you’ll be part of an ambitious global team of 28 people with several different nationalities who are collectively known as the Global Indirect Procurement (GIP) Team. Within GIP, the Category Management team consists of senior passionate Global Category Managers as well as student assistants who work across all of Pandora’s indirect spend. We are working towards establishing a procurement center of excellence for category management and we need a profile with experience within Marketing and specifically someone who has worked with e.g. Paid social media, influencers, PR & External events, Consumer insights, Creative agencies, Media Production, Media agencies and Search/SEQ/SEM. 

  

In this role you will be working closely with the Global Category Manager, Media & Marketing, our Strategic Sourcing team, our local Procurement teams in Baltimore, Panama, and Shanghai as well as stakeholders across the global Pandora Office in Copenhagen. You will interact with senior stakeholders and must be able to navigate on all levels of the organization to ensure that GIP is always seen as a valued and trusted business partner. 

  

You will be equipped with knowledge of procurement trends, tools, and best practices via our onboarding program and our focus on personal development and continuously pushing the boundaries for the value derived from Procurement.  

  

You will be involved in and/or responsible for the:   

• Continuous development of the Category levers and plans in line with the overall Pandora GIP- & Marketing strategy 

• Managing the Category objectives (KPIs) and constantly develop the approach to a data driven understanding of the category 

• Ensuring Global governance for the category is in place and anchored with key stakeholders  

• Developing plans and strategies to act on global regional and local market trends, opportunities, risks etc. 

• Developing the supplier relation management (SRM) approach  

• Delivering results within areas such as top- and bottom-line impact, risk management, sustainability & compliance management  

• Negotiation lead within defined supplier projects  

• Executing supplier- and contract negotiations both globally, regionally, and locally and in cooperation with the Global Category Manager Media & Marketing, our Sourcing teams, and the local Procurement teams 

 

Strong, commercial professional with broad interpersonal, communicative and adaptive skills 

We imagine the ideal profile to be a self-driven and deadline-oriented individual who thrives on juggling many priorities and navigating in the field of multiple suppliers and stakeholders. You are a team player with an analytical mindset and enjoy working in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment. We see you as a passionate individual with a drive for what you do. 

  

Furthermore, we hope that you have: 

• Minimum a Master degree or similar within relevant field 

• Preferably experience (+5 years) from roles within the media & marketing industry 

• Procurement experience is a plus but not a requirement,   

• Project -management experience is a plus but not a requirement 

• Strong communications skills 

• Strong negotiations skills 

• Strong analytical profile and number comprehension  

• A personality and an approach that supports being the subject matter expert within different areas of Marketing towards our key stakeholders 

• A dynamic and self-starter profile with a result oriented approach  

• English as mandatory language  

• An advantage if experience with Spanish or other major languages 

  

Additional information 

Manager - Global Career Band 4 

No direct reports 

Y