Category Management - Future Leaders Graduate Program

Teampicnic; Amsterdam; Vor Ort; EUR 36.000 - 54.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Teampicnic in Amsterdam leads the commercial engine of Europe’s fastest-growing online supermarket. You will build category roadmaps, negotiate with suppliers, and shape data-driven assortment strategies that balance customer experience with margins.

As a junior professional with an MSc in a relevant field, you’ll own end-to-end tasks, contribute to private label development, and collaborate across supply chain, design, and analytics to drive price execution and category health.

Qualifikationen

• MSc in Business, Economics, Finance, Econometrics, Supply Chain, Food Retail, or related field.
• Internships or extracurricular activities in fast-moving, high-intensity environments are mandatory.
• Strong ability to work with data to drive business outcomes and inform negotiations.

Aufgaben

• Category Strategy & Improvement Plans: Build and execute commercial roadmaps for your category, balancing customer experience, gross margin, and category health.
• Supplier Negotiation: Lead negotiations to secure best terms from initial outreach to signed contracts.
• Data-Driven Assortment Strategy: Analyze customer data and unit economics to prune underperforming SKUs and introduce winning products.
• Private Label Development: Collaborate on creating Picnic's own products, including packaging, pricing, and market positioning.
• Margin & Price Execution: Monitor cost changes and pricing strategies to protect margins while staying competitive on price.
• Cross-Functional Rigor: Partner with supply chain, design, and analytics to align goals with operations.

Kenntnisse

Category management

Data analysis

Negotiation

Strategy development

Ausbildung

MSc in Business or related field

Jobbeschreibung

In a nutshell

What's it like to manage the commercial engine of Europe's fastest-growing online supermarket? At Picnic, we don't just buy products - we redefine how food reaches millions of homes by building smarter assortments, negotiating hard with global brands, and launching our own Private Label lines.

What you will actually do

• Category Strategy & Improvement Plans: Build and execute clear commercial roadmaps for your category - analyzing performance gaps, setting growth targets, and continually balancing customer experience, gross margin, and long-term category health.
• Supplier Negotiation: Prepare and lead negotiations that secure the best terms. From initial outreach to signed contracts, you'll own the process end-to-end
• Data-Driven Assortment Strategy: Dive deep into customer purchase data, elasticity models, and unit economics to prune underperforming SKUs and introduce winning products.
• Private Label Development :Collaborate on the creation of Picnic's own products - from sustainable packaging and pricing to quality checks and market positioning
• Margin & Price Execution: Continuously monitor cost changes, inflation impacts, and competitor pricing to protect margins while keeping Picnic unbeatable on price.
• Cross-Functional Rigor: Partner with supply chain, design, and analytics teams to align commercial goals with operational excellence.

Your superpowers

• Finishing (or recently finished) an Msc in Business, Economics, Finance, Econometrics, Supply Chain, Food Retail, or a related field (0-1 year of full-time work experience)
• Practical experience gained via internships, student organizations, or extracurricular activities is mandatory - in fast-moving, high-intensity environments
• Comfortable working with complex data to drive tangible business outcomes, whether that's uncovering growth levers or building a winning negotiation strategy.
• You enjoy negotiating . You hold your ground with experienced suppliers, build long-term value, and back up your positions with hard data.
• You don't hand off contract administration, cost recalculations, or SKU setups to someone else - you execute every detail of your strategy yourself .
• You constantly ask "Why does this product cost X to produce?" and "Why are we not carrying category Y?"
• Fluent in English (Dutch or German is a strong advantage for local supplier negotiations).

Not sure which track fits you best?

Choose Category Management if you are driven by products, supplier negotiations, unit economics, and food trends. Choose Strategy if you are driven by app user behavior, digital storefront optimization, and campaign execution. Choose An