Let’s change dentistry together!

Are you keen on making a meaningful contribution to 3Shape’s rapid expansion? We invite you to become part of our Global Procurement team and contribute to our progress in a vibrant and resourceful environment.

As Senior Category Manager, you will be a part of an experienced Category Management team, where you will have full opportunity to make visible results within your own categories of plastic injection moulded parts.

Your responsibilities:

• Spend overview and categorization - Together with the Procurement team you will create and maintain an overview of the major direct spend categories within 3Shape and assigned to you, as well as being in close collaboration with key stakeholders in the organization.
• Collaboration on long-term strategies - In partnership with the stakeholders, you will develop and uphold long-term strategies for the primary spending categories, which will include detailed action plans.
• Head negotiations - As a good negotiator, you will have the commercial responsibility for all major negotiations supporting the organization in getting the best possible conditions.
• Best practice - You will support the organization with the best practice for supplier selection and negotiation to make sure all direct spends are carried out professionally.

For those who are inspired by an environment that supports rapid decision-making and strong teamwork, we would like to connect with you.

Qualifications

• You have a minimum of 5 years’ experience within category management incl. strategies and processes on a global level.
• Experience with plastic injection moulding
• Experience with supplier management for plastic injection moulding
• Engineering or other relevant technical background
• You can work closely and interact with colleagues at various levels and from different cultures.
• You are fluent in English.
• You take pride in providing effective delivery.

Join us in shaping a company culture that makes Monday mornings worth it.

We are an exciting, visionary, and international place to work. But most of all, we are a diverse group of over 50 different nationalities who all contribute to an awesome company culture. We partake in social clubs, monthly Friday and various in-team activities as well. If that’s not enough, then add on:

• An attractive healthcare package to keep you fit and well.

• Breakfast every day, and a delicious and healthy lunch cooked by our private chefs.

• Good work/life balance e.g., work from home policy for up to 2 days per week.

• A joint purpose: to enable dentists to provide superior dental care to every patient, every time.

Staying true to our values and DEI efforts, we encourage all relevant applicants to apply, and we ask you NOT to add any photos or sensitive information (age, marital status, nationality) during the application process.

We encourage all relevant applicants to apply. We are committed to celebrating human diversity, and we trust that the best way to reach outstanding business results, is by welcoming diverse people into our community. 

About us

3Shape started with a simple idea - to make 3D scanning better. First, we applied it to the hearing industry, then we succeeded in dentistry. Twenty years later, 3Shape has 2,000+ employees globally. With the help of dental professionals and amazing colleagues we’re creating award-winning scanning and CAD/CAM solutions to change dentistry together! Together, we contribute to a better world. Experience the everyday #lifeat3Shape across the globe on LinkedIn.