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Category Manager Asian & Tribal Arts

Catawiki • Amsterdam, Netherlands; France; Italy

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<div class="content-intro"><p>At Catawiki, every day brings the extraordinary! Whether it’s <a href="https://www.catawiki.com/en/c/583-sports-memorabilia">Daniel Ricciardo’s Formula 1 Car</a>, a <a href="https://www.catawiki.com/en/c/579-fossils">Woolly Mammoth’s Skeleton</a>, <a href="https://www.catawiki.com/en/l/10035805">Lady Gaga's Jumpsuit</a> or <a href="https://www.catawiki.com/en/c/583-sports-memorabilia">Usain Bolt’s running shoe</a>, we encounter exceptional objects every day.</p> <p>We’re a one-of-a-kind marketplace for buying and selling special objects. Each week, more than 100,000 unique items are auctioned, all carefully curated by our passionate in-house experts.</p> <p>Having sold over 25 million unique objects, our mission is to become the world’s most popular destination for special objects. As a growing, diverse and sustainable scale-up, we proudly live by three core values. If these values resonate with you, we’d love to explore how you can join us.</p> <ul> <li>Taking ownership and driving impact </li> <li>Being open to change and feedback</li> <li>Being passionate about our mission and our customers. </li> </ul></div><p>Asian & Tribal is one of the most culturally rich and commercially complex categories within Collectables. It spans Asian Art, Tribal & Ethnographic Art, and related subcategories where heritage, craftsmanship, provenance, and collector trust are critical. The category attracts a diverse global buyer base ranging from emerging collectors to highly specialised, repeat buyers, and requires strong judgement, commercial sharpness, and leadership to balance growth with quality.</p> <p>This is an opportunity to lead an established category with real depth, a strong expert team and clear headroom for growth. You will set the commercial direction, turn opportunity into focused execution and build a category that grows in both scale and quality. It is not a role for maintaining the status quo: you will make choices, create momentum and take ownership of the outcomes.</p> <p>As Category Manager, you own the category strategy and commercial performance. You lead and develop an international team of Experts, build strong external networks with sellers and institutions, and ensure a high-quality buyer experience that reinforces trust and repeat engagement.</p> <p>This role is based in the Netherlands with a hybrid setup. You are expected to work from the Amsterdam office two days per week to collaborate closely with other Category Managers, Commercial teams, and key stakeholders.</p> <p><strong>The Opportunity</strong></p> <ul> <li>Shape a clear growth plan for a category with global reach, cultural credibility and significant untapped commercial potential.</li> <li>Improve the category mix, auction performance and seller portfolio - choosing where to invest, what to stop and how to turn insight into measurable action.</li> <li>Build a stronger, more repeatable pipeline of high-quality sellers alongside Sales and Business Development, while representing Catawiki credibly in the market.</li> <li>Create a high-performing, engaged team that combines specialist expertise with commercial ownership, pace and accountability.</li> </ul> <p><strong>What You’ll Do</strong></p> <ul> <li>Build, own and execute the strategic growth plan for Asian & Tribal. Set a clear ambition, identify the few growth bets that matter most and translate them into practical, time-bound execution.</li> <li>Own the category P&L and commercial outcomes. Use data to make firm calls on where to invest, improve or stop - balancing growth, margin, quality and operational stability.</li> &

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