Location
Kelberg | Germany
Job description
Full Time Procurement Manager Job Description
The Procurement Manager is responsible for managing the procurement process for the company. This includes sourcing, negotiating, and awarding contracts with suppliers. The Procurement Manager will also work with other departments to ensure that the company is getting the best possible prices for goods and services.
Responsibilities
- Demonstrate BD Leadership Standards and Values
- Lead strategic initiatives and take ownership to drive supplier projects in the most efficient & effective way
- Supplier relationship and contract management for assigned suppliers and development of multi-year value plans with preferred supply base
- Source and deploy preferred supply base to new product development programs and ensure adherence to approved category strategies
- Hands-on escalation support for critical supplier issues (delivery, cost, quality)
- Support implementation activities for category strategies including overall project management, stakeholder communication, reporting and procurement aspects of supply market research, business requirements analysis, opportunity assessment, supplier identification, supplier selection, risk mitigation, negotiation and contract execution.
- Achieve total cost savings, cash and supply chain risk mitigation targets as defined in the business strategic plans and agreed with the procurement leadership team
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in business or a related field
- Strong negotiation skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
- Strong project management skills including governance (planning & monitoring)
- Preferably minimum 3 years of (international) experience in a project management role
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in German and English
- Advanced negotiation skills and understanding of supplier/component cost structures
- Strong story telling ability and presentation skills
- Ability to work cross-functionally and to engage with different skill teams
- Successful track record of strategic procurement initiatives with considerable business impact
- Preferably solid understanding of electro-mechanical category and respective market trends
Personal Attributes
- Growth mindset
- Proven ability and resilience to align stakeholders with contradictory POVs to lead procurement initiatives to success
- Passion to drive change in a dynamic, rapidly growing business environment
- Inquisitive and critical thinking to proactively identify new opportunities for procurement and stakeholders to enhance business impact
- Strong influencing and interpersonal communication skills (effective and assertive) within a multi-cultural organization
- Ability to build effective teams and to work both collaboratively and independently
- Ability to deal with ambiguity and take risk intelligently
- Willingness and ability to perform both hands-on execution work as well as strategic planning work
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