EMEA Field Category Manager
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Posted on:
10-09-2025
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1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Date Posted:
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HungaryLocation:
Hungary HQ BudapestJob Title: EMEA Field Category Manager MOD 3rd party elevator controllers & electrical components
Location: Budapest Hungary / Travel: 20%
Reporting to: EMEA NE & MOD Sourcing Director
About the Role
Were looking for a strategic and hands-on Field Category Manager to lead sourcing for 3rd party elevator controllers and electrical components across 42 EMEA countries. This is a new high-impact role focused on centralizing procurement improving supplier performance and delivering value across modernization and new equipment projects.
Key Responsibilities
Lead category strategy for controllers and electrical components across EMEA optimizing cost quality delivery and compliance.
Develop and manage supplier relationships negotiate contracts and implement performance KPIs.
Drive sourcing transformation from local to centralized procurement leveraging scale and standardization.
Support project sourcing from RFQ to supplier selection ensuring competitive pricing and timely delivery.
Build supplier networks conduct visits and maintain a live market overview to support early decision-making.
Implement digital tools and catalogs to streamline sourcing and enable field teams.
Collaborate cross-functionally with factories engineering operations and sales to ensure successful project execution.
What Were Looking For
University degree with 3-7 years of relevant experience.
Strong experience in elevator controllers/electrical components sourcing.
Experience driving organizational change and working in a matrixed international environment.
Proven ability to lead category management and supplier negotiations.
Strategic thinker with hands-on execution skills.
Fluent in English and Hungarian; additional languages are a plus.
If you live in a city chances are we will give you a lift or play a role in keeping you moving every day.
Otis is the worlds leading elevator and escalator manufacturing installation and service company. We move 2 billion people every day and maintain approximately 2.2 million customer units worldwide the industrys largest Service portfolio.
You may recognize our products in some of the worlds most famous landmarks including the Eiffel Tower Empire State Building Burj Khalifa and the Petronas Twin Towers! We are 69000 people strong including engineers digital technology experts sales and functional specialists as well as factory and field technicians all committed to meeting the diverse needs of our customers and passengers in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. We are proud to be a diverse global team with a proven legacy of innovation that continues to be the bedrock of a fast-moving high-performance company.
When you join Otis you become part of an innovative global industry leader with a resilient business model. Youll belong to a diverse trusted and caring community where your contributions and the skills and capabilities youll gain working alongside the best and brightest keep us connected and on the cutting edge.
We provide opportunities training and resources that build leadership and capabilities in Sales Field Engineering and Major Projects and our Employee Scholar Program is a notable point of pride through which Otis sponsors colleagues to pursue degrees or certification programs.
Today our focus more than ever is on people. As a global people-powered company we put people passengers customers and colleagues at the center of everything we do. We are guided by our values that we call our Three Absolutes prioritizing Safety Ethics Quality in all that we do. If you would like to learn more about environmental social and governance (ESG) at Otis click here.
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Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Abinitio
- Aerospace Engineering
- Corporate Relationship
- Business Administration
- Financial Reporting
- Avionics
About Company
Otis is the world’s largest manufacturer of elevators, escalators and moving walkways. For architects and contractors, developers and homeowners, Otis is the world’s leading people mover.
