Full-Time Tactical Category Manager Europe West

Tactical Category Manager (m/f/diverse) role is responsible for the regional strategic sourcing of a certain material/service field and its subcategories.

Reporting to the Tactical Purchasing Team Lead or Head of Tactical Purchasing Center.

Interface between the global cluster and the operation center, ensuring and steering the implementation of the respective integrated category strategy.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Source to Contract: Implement high-complexity tenders with Global Category Management, set alternative procurement sources, and ensure synergies through volume bundling.
2. Offer Analysis: Analyze offers, create comparisons, conduct cost and price analysis, and support savings targets.
3. Frame Contract Management: Increase cost-optimized price and framework agreements in coordination with relevant specialties and Global Integrated Category Management.
4. Category Management: Co-develop regional procurement strategies with the Global Category Manager, including sustainability aspects, and push regional strategy to achieve synergy effects.
5. Stakeholder Partnership: Act as an interface for Continental and the Purchasing Community, guide and train stakeholders, and ensure transparency in the procurement process.
6. Supplier Management: Maintain sustainable supplier relationships, conduct strategic meetings, perform annual evaluations, and lead improvement programs.
7. Project Management: Lead or participate in projects relevant to the category, within the purchasing organization or cross-functional projects.

Qualifications:

• Academic degree in business administration, engineering, or a comparable qualification.
• First experience in professional purchasing, preferably in the Construction, Utilities, and Facility Management categories.
• Good knowledge of the Buildings & Construction market and its dynamically changing environment.
• Language Requirements: Business fluent in English (written and spoken); additional regional languages preferred (German, French, Portuguese).
• Experience in purchasing processes. Strong analytical skills, assertiveness, teamwork, and result orientation.
• Good negotiating, persuasion, and communication skills.
• Affinity for working with people and strong intercultural competencies.
• Up to 10% willingness to travel.

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