Project Manager Category Management

Project Manager Category Management

Project Manager of a Category Excellence team, you will play a critical role in defining, setting up, and implementing end-to-end processes that drive performance, standardization, and operational excellence across our Category & Buying organization.

You will lead and support cross-functional projects that enhance process governance, improve the quality of category plans, and drive the adoption of best practices.

Your focus is on bringing in industry best practices, building governance around key processes like category planning and product lifecycle management, and enabling teams to work smarter and deliver more impact.

This position is based in Varsseveld (at least once a week) & Utrecht or Leek following our hybrid work policy of 2–3 office days per week.

What is your role? What will keep you busy?

• Change Management. Support and drive change initiatives across C&B by analyzing performance, identifying improvement areas, and guiding the adoption of new tools, processes, and mindsets.

• Category Planning Enablement. Improve the quality and consistency of category plans by introducing frameworks, templates, and coaching. Help teams connect their plans to business objectives and stakeholder needs.

• Tooling & Capability Building. Lead the development and deployment of tools that support category management and buying processes—ensuring teams are equipped and trained to use them effectively.

• Project & Process Governance. Run and contribute to key initiatives such as product lifecycle management and sourcing strategy definition, embedding structure and discipline into execution.

• Best Practice & Knowledge Sharing. Gather and promote internal and external best practices (e.g., from fashion, food or automotive sectors), and facilitate knowledge-sharing through case studies and workshops.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration. Work closely with supply chain, finance, and data teams to align process improvements and ensure end-to-end integration of category and buying initiatives.

• Stakeholder Engagement & Reporting. Develop and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders. Monitor progress, escalate blockers, and report outcomes with transparency and clarity.

Who are you? 

For this job we have a couple of requirements: 

Professional Experience

• Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Level of Work Experience

• Proven experience in project or program management, ideally within a commercial, buying, or category management setting.

• Skilled at translating strategic goals into actionable plans, tools, and scalable solutions.

• Strong stakeholder manager who connects teams, drives alignment, and ensures cross-functional buy-in.

• Comfortable navigating complexity and ambiguity, with a structured and hands-on approach to delivery.

• Analytical and pragmatic, able to identify opportunities, define priorities, and drive measurable outcomes.

Your key strengths:

• Strategic Execution: You drive structure, clarity, and progress in cross-functional projects.

• Stakeholder Engagement. You connect and align teams to get things done.

• Continuous Improvement. You bring fresh thinking and proven practices to elevate category performance.

What do we offer? 

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

• 25 vacation days and 12 ATV 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"

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