About the role
As a Category Procurement Specialist – Industrial Packaging, you will play a key role in implementing and executing procurement strategies across the Industrial Packaging category throughout Europe. Working closely with internal stakeholders, suppliers, and cross-functional teams, you will help ensure the business has access to high-quality, innovative, and cost-effective packaging solutions that support operational success.
This role combines strategic thinking with hands-on execution. You will build strong supplier partnerships, monitor market developments, and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives that enhance cost efficiency, quality, sustainability, supply continuity, and innovation. Your work will have a direct impact on business performance across multiple locations and functions.
How you will contribute
Serve as the primary procurement contact for the Industrial Packaging category across Europe, partnering with stakeholders to understand business needs and deliver effective procurement solutions.
Implement and execute category strategies that support business objectives, cost optimization, supplier performance, and supply continuity.
Build and manage strong supplier relationships, including contract management, commercial negotiations, performance reviews, and risk assessments.
Monitor market trends, innovations, and supplier developments to identify opportunities for continuous improvement, increased value, and greater competitiveness.
Lead sourcing and tendering activities, supporting supplier selection, contract implementation, and category development across the region.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive operational excellence, analyze spending and market data, and deliver sustainable procurement outcomes.
Engage with operational sites and suppliers to understand requirements, strengthen partnerships, and support long-term business success.
What you will bring
Experience in procurement, sourcing, category management, or a related field, ideally within industrial packaging, consumables, or a similar category environment.
Knowledge of procurement practices, supplier relationship management, tendering processes, contract management, and commercial negotiations within a European context.
Ability to build collaborative relationships, influence stakeholders, and work effectively across different functions, locations, and levels of an organization.
Strong analytical, communication, and organizational skills, with the ability to translate data and market insights into practical business decisions.
Professional proficiency in English and willingness to travel across Europe as business needs require.
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Trade is the lifeblood of the global economy, creating opportunities and improving the quality of life for people around the world. DP World exists to make the world’s trade flow better, changing what’s possible for the customers and communities we serve globally.
With a dedicated, diverse and professional team of more than 119,000 employees from 164 nationalities, spanning 83 countries on six continents and 560+ business units, DP World is pushing trade further and faster towards a seamless supply chain that’s fit for the future.
We’re rapidly transforming and integrating our businesses -- Ports and Terminals, Marine Services, Logistics and Technology – and uniting our global infrastructure with local expertise to create stronger, more efficient end-to-end supply chain solutions that can change the way the world trades.
What's more, we're reshaping the future by investing in innovation. From intelligent delivery systems to automated warehouse stacking, we’re at the cutting edge of disruptive technology, pushing the sector towards better ways to trade, minimising disruptions from the factory floor to the customer’s door.
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