{"id":1600082,"url":"https://alion.io/job/nouryon-regional-category-manager","title":"Regional Category Manager","company":{"id":1903394,"name":"Nouryon","domain":"nouryon.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/nouryon","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"SuccessFactors","truth_index":null},"role":"Operations","role_family":"Operations","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["India"],"countries":["IN"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":77000,"max":115000,"currency":"EUR","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":129924},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"closed","first_seen_at":"2026-10-01T18:57:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-01","last_verified_at":"2026-10-16T00:12:52Z","board_verified":false,"closed_at":"2026-10-16T00:12:52Z","days_open":14,"trust":{"level":"not_scored","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":14},"description":"Take the lead in shaping Nouryon’s regional sourcing agenda for Raw Materials. As Regional Category Manager, you will drive key commercial decisions, lead impactful negotiations, and develop strong, long-term supplier relationships with focus on specific Categories. If you enjoy strategic responsibility, working with data, and influencing senior stakeholders, this role gives you a platform to visibly contribute to our regional performance.\nAbout the job\nOur Direct Procurement team is a global group of 45 professionals managing Nouryon’s strategic raw material base - a portfolio with significant impact on our cost position, product quality, and sustainability agenda. Around 20 colleagues are based in our modern office in Amsterdam-Zuidoost, with others embedded in key regions close to our markets and suppliers. The team works closely with Manufacturing, R&D, Finance, Sustainability, and our business units to ensure reliable, cost-effective, and sustainable supply.\nAs Regional Category Manager you will play a key role in this team, with end-to-end responsibility for both Strategic categories e.g. Sodium Silicate and Transactional Categories. These categories are directly tied to Nouryon’s core business performance in your region. You will have significant visibility and the autonomy to define and implement regional category strategies, run and optimize tenders, and build long-term supplier partnerships that directly support Nouryon’s growth and performance.\nIn your future role as Regional Category Manager you will\nDevelop and implement regional sourcing strategies and multi-year roadmaps for Sodium Silicate and Transactional Categories, balancing cost, supply security, sustainability, and innovation.\nTranslate global category strategies into regional execution plans, ensuring alignment with regional business priorities and market conditions.\nConduct regional market intelligence, cost-driver analysis, and risk assessments to identify opportunities, anticipate shifts, and secure competitive advantage.\nLead regional contract and price negotiations, securing robust agreements that protect Nouryon’s supply position and deliver sustainable value.\nPlan, manage, and execute regional tenders, leveraging digital procurement platforms (e.g. Coupa) to drive transparency, compliance, and savings.\nServe as the primary procurement contact for Business Line and functional stakeholders in your region, translating business needs into sourcing and supplier strategies.\nCollaborate with Operations, R&D, Supply Chain, Finance, and Quality to align specifications, optimize total cost of ownership, and support product and process improvements.\nExecute supplier segmentation and conduct supplier performance reviews, identifying and implementing improvement and development initiatives.\nSupport and lead cost-out programs, value engineering initiatives, and total cost of ownership improvements that strengthen Nouryon’s margin and competitiveness in the region.\nWe believe you bring\nBachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Engineering, Supply Chain, Chemistry, or related field.\nAt least 5 years working experience in strategic procurement or category management, with a track record in complex commodity categories, preferably in chemical raw materials.\nExperience with managing strategic raw material categories at regional level and running tenders, ideally using platforms such as Coupa.\nProven success managing complex, high-value regional spend portfolios, including responsibility for more than one category and/or multiple countries within a region.\nSolid negotiation experience with senior supplier and internal stakeholders, with the ability to align different functions and secure strong commercial outcomes.\nStrong strategic and analytical skills, with the ability to work with data, understand regional market dynamics, and translate insights into clear category strategies.\nFluency in English, both verbal and written.\nAbility to work independently and proactively, managing several parallel projects and priorities across regional categories.\nGreat if you have\n·Knowledge of or exposure to chemical raw materials such as Sodium Silicate or related commodity markets.\n·Affinity with procurement systems such as SAP and Ariba, and experience with Coupa or similar tendering tools.\nWe believe you are\nA natural connector who builds trusted relationships at all levels \nCommercially driven and outcome-focused, always connecting procurement decisions to measurable business impact \nAnalytically sharp, able to cut through complexity and translate market data into clear strategic choices \nWe offer you\nThis is a high-impact role offering genuine strategic ownership of two significant regional categories. You will work alongside a mature and high-performing procurement team, with direct access to senior leadership, global business lines, and a supply base spanning multiple countries. Our employment package comprises:\nApermanent contract with a probationary period of 2 months.\nA gross basic annual salary including holiday allowance based on your knowledge and experience between EUR 77.000 and EUR 115.000.\n25 vacation days + 10 leave days.\nA performance bonus based on KPI’s.\nAn excellent pension plan with a strong contribution rate, most of which is paid by Nouryon.\nLifeCheck Employee Assistance Program: Free, confidential wellbeing support for you and your family.\nBright, modern offices with excellent public transport connections.\nAn attractive bike plan.\nA company fitness plan to stay active and healthy\nGood to know\nThis is a permanent, full-time position based in Amsterdam (Amsterdam-Zuid Oost). You will report directly to the Regional Procurement Manager, who is also based in Amsterdam.\nPlease apply via our online recruitment system. We will not accept applications via e-mail. Once it's with us we will review to see if we have a match between your skills and the role! For more information about our hiring process, visit: nouryon.com/careers/how-we-hire/\nWe look forward to receiving your application!\nAbout Nouryon\nExplore careers and life at Nouryon\nIf you’re looking for your next career move, apply today and join Nouryon’s worldwide team in providing essential solutions that our customers use to manufacture everyday products such as personal care, cleaning, paints and coatings, agriculture and food, pharmaceuticals, and building products. Our employees are driven by the wish to make an impact and actively drive positive change. If that describes you, we will gladly make way for your ambitions. From day one we support you with your personal growth, through challenging positions and comprehensive learning and development opportunities, in a dynamic, international, diverse, and proactive working environment.\nVisit our website and follow us on LinkedIn.\nContact\n\nFor additional information about the vacancy please contact Kevin Prins; Talent Acquisition Partner. \n#WeAreNouryon #GrowWithUs\nWe have already chosen our sourcing channels for this recruitment and kindly ask not to be contacted by any advertisement agents, recruitment agencies or staffing companies.\n.","description_format":"text","description_chars":7164,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"Advanced (C1)","optional":false}]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Manufacturing","Natural Resources","Plastics & Polymers","Chemical Manufacturing"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-01T18:57:00Z"},{"event":"close","at":"2026-10-16T00:12:52Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":null,"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":129924,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/nouryon-regional-category-manager","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/nouryon-regional-category-manager.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-16T00:20:39Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"search","counted_by":"address","units_charged":0,"used_today":0,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":null,"resets_at":"2026-10-17T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1903394},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1903394"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fnouryon-regional-category-manager"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fnouryon-regional-category-manager"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fnouryon-regional-category-manager"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/nouryon-regional-category-manager\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fnouryon-regional-category-manager"}]}