Category Manager Forest & Grass Care

Category Manager Forest & Grass Care

Would you like to manage a specific group of products in Forest & Grass Care, to maximize sales and profitability? Then join Kramp as

Category Manager Forest & Grass Care

You develop a category plan in line with company strategy, selecting assortment based on market trends and customer data, implementing tiered branding where needed to cover most customer needs and preferences, setting competitive prices, and proposing promotional activities. Data analysis is crucial in this role, as it informs product selection, pricing strategies, and promotional activities, ensuring the category's success.

What is your role? 

You will report to the Head of Forest & Grass Care. You will work as tandem with the Category Buyer.

Your specific tasks include: 

• Category Management Manage a category plan in line with the organizations' purchasing/procurement and/or sales strategy ensuring realization of synergies, like cost savings and risk-reduction, and/or optimization of the category profit, while reporting to senior colleagues.
• Product Lifecycle Management Take responsibility for all aspects of a life cycle of a group of products, including long- and short-term development and marketing. Stay abreast of trends in the marketplace to ensure the products' competitive position.
• Industry Awareness and External Network Execute market research to identify innovative industry trends, disrupters, and new market spaces for emerging or new market opportunities.
• Business Planning Contribute to the development of annual business plans; input to the development of business cases for key activities/projects and with estimating the financial and human resources required to deliver performance targets.
• Data-Driven Decision Support Coordinate the analysis of moderately complex data, ensuring the insights are utilized to support informed decision-making of considerable impact.
• Business Case Develop straightforward business cases or lead feasibility and assessment work for proposed and current projects to support the development and continuous review of business cases.
• Commercial Management Manage commercial results of a medium- to large-sized business unit or product line by analyzing customer and market trends, monitoring financial results, adjusting plan as necessary, and optimizing use of resources.
• Stakeholder engagement Contribute to stakeholder engagement through identifying stakeholders, finding out their needs/issues/concern and reacting to these by arranging meetings and events and drafting supporting materials to promote understanding and commitment.
• Cost Reduction Contribute to reviewing costs, generate ideas for cost reduction, and contribute to the implementation of cost saving initiatives.
• External Partners – Compliance Management Monitor compliance of external partners within the organization's established systems to meet required standards and regulatory obligations.

Who are you? 

For this job we have a couple of requirements.

Professional Experience

• Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Level of Work Experience
• At least 3 years of experience to deal with the majority of situations and to advise others
• Good stakeholder management
• Basic technical knowledge about how the machines are built is needed.

Key Competencies for Success

• Plans and Aligns Plans and prioritizes work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals. For example, outlines clear plans that put actions in a logical sequence; conveys some time frames. Aligns own work with relevant workgroups. Takes some steps to reduce bottlenecks and speed up the work.
• Communicates Effectively Develops and delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences. For example, disseminates knowledge, insights, and updates in a polished, precise, and compelling manner. Demonstrates a deep interest in others' comments. Creates rich documents and reports.
• Manages Conflict Handles conflict situations effectively, with a minimum of noise. For example, seeks out a variety of opinions and options; maintains an open mind; takes steps to ensure conflict remains constructive; avoids polarized or unilateral decisions; seeks agreement on critical issues.
• Business Insights Applies knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization's goals. For example, clearly understands how own activities relate to critical business drivers. Monitors business news and market changes for impact on the business or on own expertise area; uses this to shape decisions.
• Strategic Entrepreneurial Mindset Sees ahead to future possibilities and translates them into breakthrough strategies. For example, articulates how own actions contribute to the organization's success and prioritizes actions that will help reach the goals. Sees important trends and starts discussion about how these may impact own work, the industry, or customers.
• Manages Complexity Makes sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems. For example, looks at complex issues from multiple angles; explores issues to uncover underlying issues and root causes; sees the main consequences and implications of different options.

What do we offer? 

We are an ambitious, fast-growing and financially sound organization. You can obviously expect:

• a good salary
• 25 vacation days and 12 ADV days (based on a fulltime NL contract)
• Flexible working policy in hours and location
• Travel- and working from home allowance
• Profit sharing bonus
• Great budget for training and courses
• Generous pension plan.

About us

Thanks to our ambitions we are active throughout Europe: a leading position in the agricultural market for parts. We heavily invest in E-Business and innovations. Our aim is to make it easy for our customers to run their business. Working at Kramp means working with over 3500 international colleagues. The people at Kramp are enthusiastic, professional and involved. We speak our customers’ language, understand their challenges and earn their trust to exceed their expectations. Our promise “It’s that easy” is embedded in our culture and DNA. 

Working at Kramp means:

… you belong here! ​Being part of our open business community​
… your work makes a difference!​ Have an impact on what matters

… you will develop and realize​! Learn and realize your potential

"Wij zijn een innovatieve afdeling en ik kan al zien welke nieuwe projecten er in het verschiet liggen" Leonie Online Marketeer

Do you have a question about the process? Please do not hesitate to contact Monique Welling, Talent Acquisition Specialist, monique.welling@kramp.com