The Senior Category Manager for ASICs Combo Sensors Foundries and OSATs within Cluster Electronics / Semiconductors. Global Category SEA is defining the supply strategy and negotiating with suppliers to achieve best market conditions for the own category. The Chipsets in the area of responisbility are decisve for segment cost structure as it is reflecting quite relevant of ECU BOM value.
To your tasks belong:
- Drive set up of supplier pannel of new Material Group of Foundries and OSATs for Continentals COT strategy.
- Implementing and maintaining a network within the Category and the other Categories within the Cluster organization to share competence and best practices Coaching developing and supporting the team and employees.
- Develops a respective technology and supplier capacity strategy over global suppliers panel:
- Drives the strategy definition process with crossfunctional partners.
- Ensures that Continentals requirements are reflected in the strategy.
- Document and implement the strategy in all Business Areas worldwide.
- Conducting market analysis
- Actively influence the sourcing process through:
- Supplier selection
- Negotiation of prices nonconformance costs etc. and closure of contracts with suppliers using negotiation concepts (like Advanced negotiation concept)
- Applying Advanced Negotiation Concepts.
- Leading an international team of 6 category purchasers
- Driving annual negotiations to constantly improve the cost situation of Continental Automotive in case of escalation.
- Ensure in time implementation of correct data in the respective ITsystems Controlling of Target Achievements
- Supporting redesign in cost reduction programs
Qualifications :
- Academic degree in Business Administration Engineering or comparable qualification
- Procurement Process and Product Life Cycle (PLC) knowledge preferable in semiconductor industry
- Several years of working experience in the abovementioned area
- Purchasing Management (including standards of Quality system requirements policies and norms (IATF 19649/ VDA 6.1
- Technical understanding of specific components
- Risk Management experience
- Commercial knowledge includes contract law etc.
- Business fluent English language skills (spoken and written)
- Project management skills tools and techniques
- Entrepreneur mindset & Management skills tools and techniques which ensures a strategic profit and resulted oriented handling (Balanced Scorecard Benchmarking etc.
- Human relations skills (team skills conflict management openmindedness networking)
- Communication skills including Presentation and Negotiation techniques to operate in different cultures
- Problemsolving and decisionmaking tools and techniques
Applications from severely handicapped people are welcome.
Additional Information :
The wellbeing of our employees is important to us. Thats why we offer exciting career prospects and support you in achieving a good worklife balance with additional benefits such as:
- Training opportunities
- Mobile and flexible working models
- Sabbaticals
- and much more...
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Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime