Global Category Manager (m/f/d) - Compounding materials
Global Category Manager (m/f/d) - Compounding materials
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17-06-2025
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Job Description
Category Strategy:
- Build up and maintain portfolio strategy in line with the BA needs and define a well balanced portfolio to minimize risk to ensure flexibility to get an advantage position on the supplier market.
- Define deliver and update a Sourcing List.
- Identify and onboard new potential suppliers where the need is identified
- Identify any value improvement activities and steer implementation.
- To present and align the strategies with BA stakeholders
Commercial:
- To handle all negotiations at the Category Supplier
- To negotiate and maintain necessary global contracts
- To support Advance Purchasing with complex / difficult negotiations
- Manage suppliers in representation of the BA
Escalation Support:
- Support Region Purchasing for Quality Supply and Commercial escalation
- Trouble shooting: Support the plants as next escalation level in case of supply problems (quality or delivery)
Reporting:
- Share market situation with stakeholders
- To report Categories performance in regular base
- Forecast expected price development
Qualifications :
- Bachelor degree; in exceptional cases an equivalent professional experience
- At least several years in Purchasing thereof a few years in automotive
- Strong Purchasing Portfolio Handling (Strategy Supplier List Market Know How Portfolio Analyse Forecast) & Contractualization
- Negotiation experience : RFQ Offer analyse and comparison Negotiation
- Risk Management Claim Finance Legal
- Ability to work whitin a remote team
- Project Management experience is a plus
- Functional or project leadership experience is a plus
- Several years exposure to international business
- Experience of living abroad is a plus
- Fluent English and good German language skills is a plus (written and spoken)
- Business trip to be expected (up to 30% of working time max)
Additional Information :
What we offer:
- Compensation package: 14th salaries plus performance bonus
- Lunch Allowance: in line with local regulation
- Flexibility - Flexible schedule hybrid work.
- Home-Office - Employees received 100 net for each Home-Office day paid monthly.
- Work Abroad - Possibility to work abroad within the EU for 2020 days per year (two different countries).
- Vacation days - 22 days per year 3 extra days the following year (considering absenteeism). Seniority days added starting from 3 years in the company.
- Referral Bonus - A bonus of 500 or 750 (depending on the seniority of the candidate) is paid for each referral.
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Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Employment Type
Full-time
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