Category Manager

**_The Vision-Box World _**

Join us at one of the most exciting times of our history

At Vision-Box you are empowered to be innovative, creative, collaborative, and hands-on. Use your energy and drive to help us achieve our goals as we help you achieve yours.

We are dedicated to improving the quality, convenience, efficiency, and security of travel and border control offering biometric-based digital identity management solutions.

Has a partner of the most prestigious Governments, Airports, and Airlines enhancing citizen services and traveler experiences, establishing identity ground-truth through high-performance enrollment, verification, and authentication while enabling multi-directional data transactions and actionable intelligence.

We have delivered to date over 5000 electronic identity solutions spread across the globe, enhancing access to a robust identity scheme for hundreds of millions of citizens every year.

**As a Category Manager, what are you going to do?**
- Analyzing data or insights to determine industry and consumer trends regarding the product and category
- Creating and developing a strategic long-term plan for the development of the category
- Developing an exit strategy for unsuccessful suppliers’ relationship
- Building and driving relationships with key vendors to improve pricing and quality of services
- Becoming a leader in category ranging, pricing, and new technology
- Placing appropriate orders or forecasts to ensure product availability meets demand
- Leading category management projects to optimize price in collaboration with key strategic suppliers and R&D
- Collaborating with buyers to expand product categories
- Creating forecasts for product demand to ensure the sustainability of inventory and review it regularly to avoid excess
- Managing budget spending and saving for the category
- Drive annual negotiation based on business plan volume
- Integrate new suppliers and work with process eng and supplier quality to qualify them and remove the unique source

**What are the skills and professional experience we’re expecting from you?**
- Background business administration/logistic/planning/procurement/ supply chain degree
- 3-5 years experience as a category Manager
- Experience in 1 or 2 categories (mechanical, plastic, IT module, electronic,)
- Strong network in a category not only in Portugal but worldwide
- ERP experience is a plus, not mandatory (SAP, oracle...)
- English: spoken and writing is mandatory
- Team player / Continuous improvement spirit
- Strong people management and persuasion skills to manage and influence at all levels of the company
- An analytical mind with a strategic ability
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Proficient in MS Office
- Good understanding of numeracy
- Strong knowledge of category management, marketing, and sales principles
- Ability to analyze and develop accurate conclusions to support category decisions based on key data

**Some of the cool reasons to work with us**:
Founded in Portugal and with a purpose-built headquarters in the vibrant capital of Lisbon, we have over 21 years of highly specialized experience, delivering cutting edge technology to Airports, Airlines, and Governments;
Recognized in the market as leaders in innovation, we’ve won awards in all parts of the globe. We want people who can make a real impact;
We’re a full-stack technology company working with the latest technologies. With in-house Product Design and mechanical engineering through to Front End UX/UI, Big Data, and virtualization, we bring together specialists with the sharpest minds to deliver smart and disruptive solutions to our customers;
We’ve grown rapidly in the last 10 years and offer opportunities to travel to some of the world’s most exciting places. Projects around the world like in Sydney, Milan, New York, Helsinki, Toronto, Aruba, and Dubai mean your experience can be truly global.