Category Buyer

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Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh
In-Office
3-3 Annually
Mid level
Manufacturing
The Role
Support the Product Management team with sourcing excellence, manage supplier relationships, analyze sales trends, and drive cost efficiency.
Summary Generated by Built In

Enjoy a career, packaged with care, whilst helping protect food, people and the planet  

We are a key global provider of sustainable packaging solutions. We’re on a mission to make all packaging recyclable, reusable, or compostable. Every day, we ensure the hygiene and safety of food and drink for people around the world. We are Huhtamaki.   

You could be part of our vision. Because it’s our talented people that make it happen. Our people on the shop floor producing innovative, sustainable products. Our people in our offices delivering excellence for our customers every day. It’s every one of us working together.  

We offer a place where you can feel safe, be supported, and make an impact so we can all focus on the future together.   

Your opportunity

We’re seeking a motivated and detail-oriented professional to support our Product Management team in driving sourcing excellence and cost efficiency. In this role, you’ll help optimize our supplier base, manage traded goods data, and ensure timely, competitive supply across categories. If you’re analytical, organized, and ready to make an impact in a dynamic, global environment, we want to hear from you.

You will report into our Global Category Manager, Traded Goods, NA. Main forums and stakeholders include our North America Commercial and Procurement team, vendors, logistics partners, and our traded goods procurement team in region.

Where you’ll be

You will be located at Huhtamaki's Ho Chi Minh City location.

What you'll be doing
  • Partner closely with the North America Product Management team to boost top-line growth while optimizing inventory levels.

  • Drive cost efficiency by identifying savings opportunities and building a reliable, high-quality supplier network.

  • Analyze category and product sales trends to uncover insights and guide strategic sourcing decisions.

  • Develop and execute the annual sourcing pipeline to support business goals and innovation.

  • Secure cost-competitive supply through tenders, benchmarking, and ongoing market analysis.

  • Understand business needs across units and ensure seamless alignment with Group category plans.

  • Oversee Master Data management for the traded goods database, ensuring accuracy and efficiency in all sourcing activities.

What you’ll bring to the role
  • Bachelor’s degree or above in any discipline.

  • Minimum 3 years of experience in product purchasing or sourcing.

  • Prior experience in the packaging industry is a strong advantage.

  • Proficient in MS Office, with advanced Excel skills and the ability to build and maintain complex costing tools.

  • Strong command of written and spoken English and Mandarin.

  • Willingness to travel for business as required.

  • Excellent product sense, highly organized, and detail-oriented with strong analytical and communication skills.

What we offer in return
  • A meaningful job: At Huhtamaki, we believe in protecting food, people and the planet. Our innovative and transformative solutions touch the daily lives of people everywhere.  

  • Development opportunities: We care for each other – and want our talent to thrive and develop.

  • Responsible employer: Sustainability is embedded in everything we do. We believe diverse teams fuel innovation. We invest in fostering an environment where everyone is safe both psychologically and physically and where diversity and inclusion are promoted through day-to-day behaviours, which are reinforced by our policies and practices.

Join us. Help protect food, people and the planet.

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The Company
Batavia, OH
5,380 Employees

What We Do

Huhtamaki is a key global provider of sustainable packaging solutions for consumers around the world, enabling wellbeing and convenience. Our innovative products protect on-the-go and on-the-shelf food and beverages, ensuring hygiene and safety, and help prevent food waste. We embed sustainability in everything we do. We are committed to achieving carbon neutral production and designing all our products to be recyclable, compostable or reusable by 2030.

We are a participant in the UN Global Compact and EcoVadis has awarded Huhtamaki with the Gold medal for performance in sustainability. To play our part in managing climate change, we have set science-based targets that have been approved and validated by the Science Based Targets initiative.

With 100 years of history and a strong Nordic heritage we operate in 37 countries and 103 operating locations around the world. Our values Care Dare Deliver guide our decisions and help our team of around 18 000 employees make a difference where it matters. Our 2023 net sales totaled EUR 4.2 billion. Huhtamaki Group is headquartered in Espoo, Finland and our parent company, Huhtamäki Oyj, is listed on Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd. Find out more about how we are protecting food, people and the planet on www.huhtamaki.com

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