Category Manager- Packaging

Position Title: Category Manager - Packaging

Location: Usti, Czechia

Work Arrangement: Hybrid, Ex “20% Travel to Suppliers and Plants Globally”

Employment: Permanent

 
Come make the world and accelerate your success.  

It takes great people to achieve greatness. People with a sense of purpose and integrity. People with a relentless pursuit of excellence. People who care about making things better For Those Who Make The World™. Sound like you? Join our top-notch team of approximately 43,500 diverse and high-performing professionals globally who are making their mark on some of the world’s most beloved brands, including DEWALT®, BLACK+DECKER®, CRAFTSMAN®, STANLEY®, CUB CADET®, and HUSTLER®. 

The Job: 

As the Category Manager, you’ll get to:    

• Manage a $60M+ spend across EMEA and Americas for packaging categories, ensuring alignment with global business priorities.
• Develop and implement sourcing strategies that drive productivity, service, innovation, and quality in packaging.
• Lead contract negotiations and maintain 80% of managed spend under contract to optimize cost and supply security.
• Build and sustain supplier relationships, including conducting quarterly business reviews and driving supplier value creation.
• Deliver annual productivity improvements of 5%+ through strategic sourcing events and initiatives.
• Monitor market intelligence and trends monthly, advising the business on buying strategies and opportunities.
• Drive regional risk mitigation strategies and tariff mitigation initiatives to ensure supply chain resiliency.
• Identify and develop new sources of supply to support business growth and category expansion.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Strategic Sourcing, Engineering, and Manufacturing teams to achieve organization-wide KPIs.
• Prepare contracts and agreements for approval, ensuring compliance and supporting optimum cash flow benefits.

About You:   

You love to learn and grow and be acknowledged for your valuable contributions. You’re not intimidated by innovation. In fact, you embrace it. Wouldn’t it be great if you could do your job and do a world of good? You also have:  

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field (e.g., Business, Engineering, Supply Chain).
• Proven expertise in strategic sourcing, category management, or the packaging industry.
• Strong negotiation, analytical, and program management skills, with proficiency in Excel, SAP and data analysis.
• Fluency in both English and Czech, with strong written and verbal communication abilities.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and drive results.

The Details: 

You’ll receive a great benefits plan, including: 

• Meal vouchers,
• Pension benefit,
• Contribution by the employer to the multisport card,
• Discount on Dewalt products.

And More: 

We want our company to be a place you’ll want to be – and stay. Being part of our team means you’ll get to:  

• Grow: Be part of our global company with 20+ brands to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths.  
• Learn: Have access to a wealth of learning resources, including our digital learning portal.  
• Belong: Experience an awesome place to work, where we have mutual respect and a great appreciation for a wide range of perspectives and experiences. 
• Give Back: Help us continue to make positive changes locally and globally through volunteerism, giving back, and sustainable business practices.  

What’s more, you’ll get that pride that comes from empowering makers, doers, protectors, and everyday heroes all over the world. We’re more than the #1 tools company. More than a driving force in outdoor power equipment. More than a global leader in industrial. We’re visionaries and innovators. As successful as we’ve been in the past, we have so much further to go. That’s where you come in. Join us! 

We Don’t Just Build The World, We Build Innovative Technology Too.

Joining the Stanley Black & Decker team means working in an innovative, tech-driven and highly collaborative team environment supported by over 58,000 professionals in 60 countries across the globe. Here, you’ll get the unique chance to impact some of the world’s most iconic brands including STANLEY TOOLS, DEWALT, CRAFTSMAN, MAC TOOLS and Black + Decker. Your ideas and solutions have the potential to reach millions of customers as we work together to write the next chapter in our history. Come build with us and take your career to new heights.

Who We Are 

We’re the World’s largest tool company. We’re industry visionaries. We’re solving problems and advancing the manufacturing trade through innovative technology and our Industry 4.0 Initiative. We are committed to ensuring our state-of-the-art “smart factory” products and services provide greater quality to our customers & greater environmental and social value to our planet. We are unique in that we have a rich and storied history dating back to 1843, but that hasn't stopped us from evolving into a vibrant, diverse, global growth company.

Global Benefits & Perks
You’ll be rewarded with a competitive salary plus receive entitlements and benefits unique to your country of hire. 

What You’ll Also Get

Career Opportunity: Career paths aren’t linear here. Being part of our global company with 60+ brands gives you the chance to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths.

Learning & Development: 
Our lifelong learning philosophy means you’ll have access to a wealth of state-of-the-art learning resources, including our Lean Academy and online university (where you can get certificates and specializations from renowned colleges and universities).

Diverse & Inclusive Culture:
We pride ourselves on being an awesome place to work. We respect and embrace differences because that’s how the best work gets done. You’ll find we like to have fun here, too.

Purpose-Driven Company:
You’ll help us continue to make positive changes in the local communities where we work and live as well as in the broader world through volunteerism, giving back and sustainable business practices.