Category Manager Foodstores

• A salary up to €5,000 gross per month, depending on your experience. Plus 8% holiday allowance.

• A pension scheme in which we pay three-quarters of the premium.

• 24 vacation days per year.

• You work at our Campus in the Van Nelle Fabriek in Rotterdam. An open office with plenty of light and a large garden.

• Breakfast, lunch, and dinner from our own chefs using products from our own store, freshly cooked every day.

• 20% staff discount and unlimited Upfront products for personal use.

• A private gym and wellness area with ice baths, sauna, showers, and changing rooms.

• A MacBook and a SIM card for your business contacts.

• Weekly Hyrox classes and runs with the team.

And perhaps the most beautiful: the freedom. You decide for yourself how to approach your work. Within your field, you are the expert, and that is how we treat you. We love to give you the space to come up with and implement your own ideas.

Upfront, the food industry wants to simplify things by taking the entire chain into its own hands. We started with our own sports nutrition brand, are now opening our Foodstores throughout the Netherlands, and will soon take production completely into our own hands as well. We build everything ourselves, from our products and stores to the systems behind them. That is only possible with the best people in every field, who take ownership of what they make.

We are looking for a Category Manager for our Foodstores. In the Foodstore, we show what simplicity looks like: one product per product category, the very best. You determine which products are on the shelves, at what price, and from which suppliers. You own 30% of the Foodstore's turnover and the collaboration with more than 30 suppliers, and you report to our Purchasing & Pricing Lead. More and more Foodstores are being added, and every new store relies on your assortment.

Some weeks you are sitting at a table with a supplier to make the best deal. Other weeks, you are improving a recipe together with R&D, or working with a supplier to figure out how operations in the Foodstore can be more efficient. Our ambitions lie far ahead of our current volumes: you show suppliers where we are going, and why they want to be part of it already. After a year, you will see this reflected in multiple successful negotiations, with the best prices within the margin we have established in advance. We are looking for someone who performs both types of work with the same sharpness: the deal at the table and the improvement of the product behind it.

• Determine the assortment strategy of the Foodstore: choose the very best product per category, with a clear vision and maximum profitability

• Lead commercial discussions with your suppliers, secure the best deals, and build long-term relationships

• Set prices and monitor turnover and margin within your categories

• Translate customer behavior, market developments, and product performance into concrete actions

• Collaborate with R&D and suppliers on better recipes and more efficient operations in the Foodstore

• You are commercially strong, negotiate sharply, and bring suppliers along on where we are going

• You translate commercial data into concrete actions and communicate clearly

• You are proactive and take ownership of your categories, from assortment to margin