Procurement Category Insights Expert

SPEND VISIBILITY AND MARKET INTELLIGENCE

By providing and improving spend visibility across indirect procurement categories you will help identify potential improvements. You will collect and research insightful market data including market and industry trends benchmarks value chain insights supplier landscape and risk factors. Through this market analysis you will derive recommendations that enable factbased decisionmaking and actively contribute to the development and tracking of midtolongterm category strategies. Your practical experience in working with data your know how in procurement and strategic sourcing will be of essential help in interpreting categoryspecific information effectively.

CATEGORY INSIGHTS AND SOURCING SUPPORT

You will implement categoryspecific sourcing standards tools and processes to achieve transparent efficient and professional execution of strategic sourcing events. Continuously monitoring and analyzing procurement spend you will identify costsaving opportunities and ensure alignment with defined goals. Additionally by providing categoryspecific insights to indirect procurement managers you will support the identification of improvements and enable consistent and reliable outcomes.

SUPPLIER PERFORMANCE METRICS AND RISK MANAGEMENT

Assist in developing and maintaining supplier performance metrics for Indirect Procurement. This role requires highlighting monetary and nonmonetary improvement potentials such as cost savings and service level improvements. You will identify key risks within specific categories and ensure that tools and structures are in place for Procurement Managers to conduct thorough assessments. Furthermore you will facilitate effective supplier management by providing the necessary tools and frameworks to support continuous performance monitoring and feedback thereby strengthening supplier relationships and supporting internal stakeholders and category owners in these efforts.

CROSS FUNCTIONAL COLLABORATION

You will develop a deep understanding of other business areas within the company enabling you to take the support in various indirect procurement topics effectively. You will actively engage with stakeholders to understand their needs and implement improvement initiatives from a procurement perspective. This role involves working closely with the indirect procurement manager and other stakeholders to execute tenders in collaboration with Subject Matter Experts. Additionally you will guide internal stakeholders in converting negotiated terms into procurement processes that are aligned with HQ procurement guidelines.

Qualifications :

Education level/experience within same role/area such as Degree in Business Administration Supply Chain or Finance or experience in Procurement Analytics or Category Management

Advanced proficiency in English (written and spoken) is required German or other languages is considered a plus

Strong analytical skills with experience in data analysis and reporting.

Knowledge of strategic and operational procurement processes.

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to build effective relationships with diverse stakeholders.

Ability to identify costsaving opportunities and drive procurement efficiencies.

Proactive and detailoriented with a focus on continuous improvement.

Previous experience within category management or strategic procurement is preferred.

Additional Information :

Due to legal reasons we are obliged to disclose the minimum salary according to the collective agreement for this position which is 2392 gross per month. However our attractive compensation package is based on marketoriented salaries and is therefore significantly above the stated minimum salary.

As an employer we value diversity and support people in developing their potential and strengths realizing their ideas and seizing opportunities. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age skin colour religion gender sexual orientation or origin.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime