Category Management Specialist

Make an impact

•    Depending on the size and the complexity of a main material group, the category expert will be responsible for 1 to the numbers of regional material groups 
•    For the responsible Category Spend, the regional category expert has the responsibility to:
•    Define and roll-out Material Group sourcing strategy in close collaboration with relevant stakeholders
•    Participates in relevant stakeholder meeting to align and present sourcing strategy
•    Lead and conduct strategic sourcing projects
•    Execute tactical sourcing events in respective e-procurement tool
•    Lead and conduct negotiations
•    Setup and implement product catalogues
•    setup supplier segmentation and setup strategic supplier relationship mgmt. with relevant suppliers
•    Supplier owner for suppliers within his/her category for the E2E lifecycle of a supplier
•    E2E Sourcing responsibility from Product engineering until spare part handling
•    Ensure supply resilience and mitigate any risk
•    Collaboration and interaction with other Procurement teams:
•    Project Purchasing
-    During Sales phase (early involvement): to provide relevant pricing / price indication and to setup data base for first price indication / forecast, where feasible
-    Ensure compliance with defined category framework (e.g. usage of strategic suppliers, usage of category standards), wherever feasible
-    Support project teams with sourcing events, when requested
-    support project teams with negotiations, when requested
-    Operational Purchasing
-    Ensure handover to operational purchasing for the PO process
-    Close collaboration with operational purchasing to ensure an efficient and smoot E2E procurement process (e.g. for supplier onboarding, PO processing, setup of product catalogues)
-    Global Process Owner & Digital solution team
-    Seek for continuous improvement of processes & tools
-    Support implementation of global processes, standards and tools ( Ariba)
-    Actively contribute to define standards (e.g. pricing templates, contract templates)
-    Applies global processes and standards as defined and applies digital tools as provided

What you need to succeed

•    Engineering degree or commercial degree with good technical knowledge
•    Supply Chain Management experience in comparable industries and project oriented solutions:
•    discrete manufacturing industries; not in process industries (chemical, pharma, nutrition); not in pure service companies (as e.g. banking, insurance)
•    SAP R3 MM (Material Management) with focus on purchasing transactions and Procurement tool suites
•    Minimal 5 years of experience in strategic/tactical purchasing, preferable also experienced in operational purchasing
•    Knowledgeable in the Chinese and SEA supplier market for Racking, Installation, Conveyers, AMRs/AGVs