Strategic Procurement Manager

• Leading sourcing boards with departments and aligning on sourcing strategies
• Owning Source to Pay process for the category: from planning to payment including suppliers selection, tendering and negotiations
• Preparing guidelines and benchmarking
• Evaluating savings potential per each account on EU-level, delivering savings
• Creating and executing a category roadmap
• Evaluating base of payment terms per category and execute improvement targets
• Contract management: creating contracts overviews and renewals plans
• Working efficiently and autonomously in highly self-driven manner
• Coordinating multiple internal stakeholders with various hierarchy level
• Driving collaboration and partnership with vendors

Requirements

• At least 5 years of working experience in procurement preferably with experience in implementing new processes and category management
• Experience in such categories as Technology (IT: software, hosting, telephony), Classifieds, Real Estate, Facility Management, Human Resource or Marketing
• Completed studies for example in mathematic or data science
• Ideally, in-depth knowledge in global procurement as a Procurement Manager
• Sound experience in strategy development and initiative planning in the area of procurement
• A high level of analytical thinking coupled with advanced Excel skills
• You master excellent verbal and written communication in English, while German is a plus