Category Buyer / Category Manager IT Hardware

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About the job

As a Category Manager IT Hardware (Laptop & PC Desktop), you will play a critical role in optimizing our IT procurement strategy, ensuring we leverage the best technologies while maintaining cost efficiency and strong vendor relationships. You’ll be responsible for the end-to-end category management of IT-related products and services, including hardware, software, cloud solutions, and IT services. Your expertise will guide decision-making processes, drive contract negotiations, and support our digital transformation. Furthermore your key resposibilities are:

• Develop and execute IT procurement strategies that align with the company’s goals and technology roadmap of the suppliers.
• Manage the IT category across two subcategories; notebooks and desktops
• Conduct market research and benchmarking to identify trends, cost-saving opportunities, and innovations.
• Lead supplier selection, negotiation, and contract management to ensure optimal value, quality, and risk mitigation.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders such as finance, legal, online and our stores to understand business needs and align procurement strategies.
• Monitor vendor performance, ensuring compliance with contract terms.
• Analyze spend data and performance metrics to drive continuous improvement within the IT category based on Customer Journeys.
• Develop and maintain relationships with key suppliers, fostering strategic partnerships and ensuring continuous alignment with business needs.
• Develop and maintain promotion and pricing strategy; to guarantee best offers for our customers.

Who are you?

Next to being a nice colleague to work with you have:

• Bachelor’s or Master degree in Marketing or Business Management.
• 3+ years of experience in Category Management or Procurement.
• Proven experience in negotiating complex contracts and managing supplier relationships.
• Analytical mindset with the ability to interpret data, forecast trends, and identify cost-saving opportunities.
• Goal-oriented mindset keeping the ultimate goal in mind.
• Fluent in English and Dutch (the language to report work is Dutch).
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to communicate, influence and build relationships effectively at all levels.
• Strong personal organization, self-motivated & ability to work to deadlines and under pressure.

Wat bieden wij jou?

• A -without exaggeration- fantastic workplace on the 40th floor in 'De Rotterdam' overlooking the Erasmus Bridge;
• Ahybrid working environment: choose diversity between working at home or in the office. (Preferably matching the team’s WFH & WFO days);
• Good working conditions and development and growth opportunities;
• Freedom and responsibility to shape your role and bring ideas to implementation in an environment where anything is possible;
• At MediaMarkt, we have courage. We are entrepreneurs within a company, giving you the chance to develop yourself quickly and in diverse ways;
• In addition to a great place to work, we also offer 30 holidays, an attractive employee discount, group health insurance, company fitness and discounts on various insurance products.
• Een fantastische werkplek in ‘De Rotterdam’ met uitzicht op de skyline van Rotterdam
• De mogelijkheid om hybride te werken
• Een telefoon die je ook privé mag gebruiken
• 20% korting op je MediaMarkt aankopen
• 30 vakantie dagen
• Pensioenregeling

About us

We are the number ONE in Benelux and Europe. We influence how people experience and use technology. We make the difference. We are there for our customers, through all channels. We explain, inspire and enthuse. We are always on the move.

Together with our great employees, we create the shopping experience of the future!

In terms of revenue, sales area and headcount, the MediaMarktSaturn Retail Group is Europe’s leading consumer electronics retailer and provider of related services. Our integrated online and fixed-location offerings reach millions of customers every day. Consumers live an increasingly digital lifestyle – and consumer electronics has evolved from a luxury into a ‘necessity’. The digital world may be fascinating, but it’s also increasingly complex. At the MediaMarktSaturn Retail Group, we see ourselves as a partner, daily companion and navigator of our customers, and combine digital products and services to create practical solutions.Our portfolio of brands and offerings enables us to respond flexibly to the needs of different customer groups and different countries. The company includes the brands MediaMarkt and Saturn, which comprehensively network their more than 1,000 fixed-location stores with online sales platforms. Another important part of our portfolio is our own brands PEAQ, KOENIC, ISY and ok.

A subsidiary of CECONOMY AG, in 2021/22 MediaMarktSaturn and its approximately 50,000 employees generated total sales of about €22.2 billion.