Supplies Category Manager

Great opportunity and cross functionality job. High interaction with other areas like sales, finance, marketing, sales order management. Obtain high visibility presenting to all level in the organization. Good balance between manage - control skills and developing skills.**_ Responsibilities: _**- Define and drive 4P strategy for South Cone region (Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay)- Manage Supplies Category gaining after market share and contra efficiencies.- Accomplish main metrics (Revenue, CM, WOS, CI and ST)- Broad understanding of the category product, business management and sales challenges and strategies.- Actively contributes to the definition of the category business plan.- Establishes relationships and represents team with sales force and other partners at senior level.- Product line and quota responsibility for a significant share of the product range, or a specific customer segment.- Functional responsibility for the team in one or several areas (market analysis, marketing engagement, SF communication etc).- May participate in engagement partnership with external IT vendor.**_ Education and Experience Required: _**- University or Bachelors degree in Marketing or Finance.- Typically 5-8 years of professional experience with a combination of Category, Marketing, Sales, Business Planning experience preferred.- Consumer and/or Commercial Partner management expertise End User Acct management as an alternative.**_ Knowledge and Skills: _**- IT industry knowledge.- Business planning skills, multidimensional.- Financial planning and modelling skills, comfortable to manage high complexity business planning and reporting.- Strong communication skills at senior management internally and externally.- Knowledge of promotional marketing processes and practices.- Negotiation skills and ability to frame the product value proposition to customers/partners.- Leadership skills and cross functional expertise (sales, supply chain, marketing.