# Category Manager

Be part of a global organization supporting the move to a more sustainable future Are you a procurement professional with experience creating and managing strategic sourcing categories in an international industrial setting? Are you ready to take global responsibility for direct materials in a company on a growth path, where supply continuity, competitiveness and sustainability are critical to business? Then we may have the right opportunity for you. We are looking for a Category Manager to join our Direct Materials team in Group Procurement. The team consists of highly engaged category management professionals working across a broad portfolio of materials and components used in NKT’s cable solutions. These include metals, polymers, supporting cable materials, fiber optics, trading goods, insulators and components such as plastic parts. You will become part of an open and collaborative working environment where knowledge sharing, continuous development and a genuine interest in creating value-adding sourcing solutions are central to how we work. Manage direct-materials category worldwide As Category Manager, you will have end-to-end commercial responsibility for one or more assigne

- **Id**: 3978054
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/nkt-category-manager>
- **Role**: Operations
- **Role family**: Operations
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Poland
- **Countries**: PL
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T18:48:21Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T18:48:21Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6239
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Power Grid, Wind Energy, Electrical Equipment & Cables

## Company

- **Id**: 1789507
- **Name**: NKT
- **Domain**: nkt.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/nkt-com>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: SuccessFactors

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 100
- **Open postings**: 4
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 14
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: All levels; Optional: no

## Hiring locations

- **Czech Republic** — Iso: CZ; Kind: country
- **Poland** — Iso: PL; Kind: country
- **Lithuania** — Iso: LT; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T18:48:21Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 15
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T22:37:01Z

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