Global Category Manager – Additives

Job Description

Role Purpose

Role Purpose
Following recent leadership changes and the integration of the business units, this newly created role provides dedicated senior ownership for critical global categories.
The Global Category Manager is accountable for the global category strategy, sourcing execution, and supplier management for:

• A defined Portfolio of Additives for own production and commercial use.

The role combines strategic category leadership, global procurement responsibility, and limited people management, ensuring focus, continuity, and value creation across high-impact categories.

Key Responsibilities

Global Category Leadership

• Act as the dedicated global category owner for the assigned categories, safeguarding business priorities within the integrated organization.
• Define and execute global category strategies aligned with business growth, innovation, quality, and sustainability objectives.
• Translate BU and regional requirements into clear sourcing strategies and procurement roadmaps.

Global Strategy & Procurement Ownership

• Full end-to-end global responsibility for the Additives category, including strategy, sourcing, supplier portfolio management, and contract negotiations, with execution at regional and factory level through close cooperation with R&D and Formulation.
• Develop and drive a long-term global strategy, covering:supplier segmentation and partnerships,innovation access and differentiation,supply security and risk mitigation,global versus regional sourcing models.
• Serve as the senior procurement interface for strategic suppliers worldwide.

Required Experience & Profile

• Senior procurement or category management experience in Animal Nutrition, Feed/Food Ingredients, Additives.
• Proven experience managing global categories and strategic suppliers.
• Comfortably combining strategic ownership with hands-on execution.
• Experience with limited people management in a matrix organization.
• Strong analytical, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Technical knowledge or background in feed/food additives, formulation, ingredient functionality, or related application areas is strongly preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree and minimum10 years of work experience

Required Experience & Profile
• Senior direct procurement or category management experience in Pet Nutrition, Animal Nutrition, Feed/Food Ingredients, Additives of at least 10 years
• Proven experience managing global categories and strategic suppliers.
• Comfortable combining strategic ownership with hands-on execution.
• Experience with limited people management in a matrix organization.
• Strong analytical, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Bachelor degree

Why This Role Matters
This role ensures dedicated senior focus on Pet Nutrition within the integrated organization, while elevating Palatants and Additives to globally coordinated, strategically managed categories that support differentiation, growth, and supply resilience.

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About ADM

At ADM, we unlock the power of nature to provide access to nutrition worldwide. With industry-advancing innovations, a complete portfolio of ingredients and solutions to meet any taste, and a commitment to sustainability, we give customers an edge in solving the nutritional challenges of today and tomorrow. We’re a global leader in human and animal nutrition and the world’s premier agricultural origination and processing company. Our breadth, depth, insights, facilities and logistical expertise give us unparalleled capabilities to meet needs for food, beverages, health and wellness, and more. From the seed of the idea to the outcome of the solution, we enrich the quality of life the world over. Learn more at

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104462BR

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