Lead International Category Manager - PHF (all genders)

DUDE CHEM; Berlin; Hybrid; EUR 90.000 - 140.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

HelloFresh Pension Scheme

Berlin relocation support

Hybrid working model

Annual learning & development budget

German language learning budget

HelloFresh Academy

Mental health support

Zusammenfassung

HelloFresh in Berlin is seeking a Procurement Teamlead to own the strategy, performance, and people development for a category cluster. You will lead Category Managers, shape supplier relationships, and drive commercial outcomes while acting as the senior point of escalation for procurement challenges.

You’ll work with cross-functional partners across Product, FSQA and Supply Chain, build capability, implement governance, and coach your team to deliver sustained improvements in cost, quality and

Qualifikationen

• 6+ years in strategic procurement or supply chain.
• Track record building supplier relationships at a strategic level.
• Experience setting and executing category strategy across portfolios.
• Proven ability to lead and develop others.

Aufgaben

• Define and own multi-year category strategy and governance.
• Lead supplier negotiations and end-to-end tender processes.
• Escalate and resolve supply disruptions and disputes.
• Develop new suppliers to strengthen resilience.
• Coach and develop a high-performance team.

Kenntnisse

Strategic procurement

Team leadership

Supplier relationship management

Cross-functional collaboration

Data-driven decision making

Negotiation

Jobbeschreibung

The role

As a Procurement Teamlead, you will report to the Procurement Director and own the strategy, performance, and people development for your category cluster. You will lead a team of Category Managers, set the direction for supplier relationships and commercial outcomes, and operate as the senior point of escalation across operational and strategic procurement challenges.

This is a role for a procurement professional who is equally comfortable in a negotiation room with a strategic supplier, a governance forum with senior cross-functional leaders, and a development conversation with a direct report. You will act as a connector — between your team's day-to-day work and the broader supply chain strategy — and as a builder of capability, process, and relationships that outlast the current planning cycle.

What you’ll do

Strategy & Category Leadership

• Define and own the multi-year category strategy for your cluster — sourcing model, supplier segmentation, risk posture, and cost ambition — and present that strategy coherently to Director-level stakeholders.
• Translate market intelligence (commodity dynamics, seasonality, geopolitical risk, supply constraints) into actionable procurement decisions and communicate them with clarity and confidence.
• Lead cross-category standardisation and process improvement initiatives, identifying leverage across the broader portfolio where applicable.
• Own the NID (New Ingredient Development) governance pipeline for your cluster, ensuring robust cross-functional coordination between Procurement, Product, FSQA and Supply Chain.

Supplier Relationships & Partnerships

• Build and steward the most strategically important supplier relationships in your cluster, including joint investment plans, multi-year contracts, and structured partnership governance.
• Lead or oversee tender processes end-to-end — from strategy and data-pack through to award, contract, and supplier briefing — at pace and to a high standard of documentation.
• Act as the senior escalation point for supply disruptions, quality issues, and commercial disputes, resolving with a mix of supplier accountability and operational pragmatism.
• Develop new or alternative suppliers to strengthen resilience and competitiveness across your category network.

Performance, Data & Commercial Delivery

• Take full commercial accountability for your cluster's cost performance, savings targets, and COGS variance — ensuring outcomes are tracked, explained, and acted upon.
• Drive a data-first culture within your team: category reviews, investment cases, and supplier performance assessments should be grounded in robust analysis and structured decision-making.
• Contribute to seasonality planning, static pricing rounds, and volume S&OP processes with the rigour and cross-functional coordination those forums require.
• Oversee cost reporting, invoice validation and supplier database quality for your cluster.

Team Leadership & Development

• Lead, coach and develop a team of Category Managers, creating a high-performance environment that is psychologically safe, commercially ambitious, and genuinely invested in its people.
• Shift progressively from doing to enabling: your job is to build the capability of your team, not to be their best individual contributor.
• Own team capacity planning, workload prioritisation, and performance development — including calibration, promotion cases, and succession thinking.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, clear communication, and accountability without micromanagement.

Stakeholder & Cross-functional Leadership

• Build and maintain strong working relationships with Product, Supply Chain Operations, FSQA, Finance, and Legal — representing Procurement credibly and influencing decisions in cross-functional forums.
• Represent PHF Strategic Procurement at Director-level planning and governance meetings as appropriate, contributing with the strategic perspective expected at that level.
• Manage upward effectively — keeping the Procurement Director informed, flagging risks early, and bringing well-framed recommendations rather than unresolved problems.

What you’ll bring

Experience

• 6+ years in strategic procurement, supply chain, or a closely related commercial discipline — ideally in FMCG, or food ingredients, though we care more about the quality of thinking than the specific category.
• Demonstrated track record of building supplier relationships at a strategic level, including contract negotiation, partnership governance, and managing through disruption.
• Experience setting and executing category strategy across a meaningful portfolio — ideally managing a cluster of subcategories or a team.
• Proven ability to lead and develop others, whether as a formal team lead or through mentoring, cross-functional project leadership, or stepping up in an interim capacity.

Skills & Mindset

• Strategically confident: you can connect day-to-day procurement decisions to a longer-term commercial and supply chain vision, and you communicate that narrative clearly to senior audiences.
• Data-driven: comfortable building investment cases, analysing COGS variance, and driving evidence-based decision-making within your team.
• A natural relationship-builder — inside the business and with suppliers — who can hold a firm commercial position while maintaining the trust and goodwill the relationship depends on.
• Coach rather than doer: you instinctively look to develop the person next to you rather than solve the problem yourself.
• Operationally resilient: you stay focused and solution-oriented in a fast-paced, supply-volatile environment, and you bring that steadiness to your team.
• Proactive and accountable — you take ownership, raise risks early, and bring solutions rather than problems.

What we offer

Elevate your lifestyle! Join one of Europe's fastest-growing tech powerhouses in a dynamic phase of expansion.

• Immerse yourself in a diverse global community of 90+ nationalities.
• Enjoy a competitive compensation package that goes beyond the norm, with perks like a HelloFresh- subsidized Pension Scheme, Berlin relocation support, and a Hybrid working model.
• Elevate your lifestyle with exclusive discounts on your weekly HelloFresh box and office meals.
• Invest in your growth with an annual learning & development budget, German language learning budget, and access to the HelloFresh Academy.
• Plus, we've got your well-being covered with mental health support, transportation perks, and working-parent-friendly benefits. From our 24/7 gym access,wellbeing platforms like Headspace and Spill, to sabbatical leave options, HelloFresh is not just a workplace; it's a lifestyle of perks and possibilities!