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Category management : ‘ It ’ s all about processes ’ Throughout his career Levitan has been driven by different business strategies , many of which have fallen out of favour .
“ At the beginning of my career , category management was a function that very few understood . I led some very specific categories - including sustainability and renewable energy - but then I started to oversee more commodity-based categories , such as OPEX consumables , which are products and services that support day-to-day business . It was then that I realised industry expertise and subject-matter expertise is not as key to category management as I once believed . Now , I actually think it can be detrimental ,” says Levitan .
He adds : “ For example , I had stakeholders with the same subject-matter expertise as me , and that created friction
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