- Ensure efficient supplier management for the following spend categories: Patterns and sand cores Flasks & welded parts Consumables Utilities & Professional Services
- Implement category strategies in alignment with factories and other key stakeholders.
- Negotiate and implement agreements to support Baettr strategy and KPI's.
- Prepare and drive RFQs and CAPEX projects.
- Identify cost out projects.
- Lead Cross Functional Teams within own categories.
- Build up spend- and data analysis to support the sourcing activities across the value chain.
- Collect and maintain market intelligence as support to stakeholders incl. KAM team.
- Maintenace of masterdata in collaboration with local purchasing team
- You have 5 years or more from similar sourcing positions.
- You could have a degree in mechanical engineering or business administration or similar.
- You are a skilled trained negotiator.
- You have a strong analytical and commercial mindset.
- You have experience from global organizations.
- You hold strong stakeholder management skills.
- You have excellent English & German language skills.
Category Sourcing Manager - Stade, Deutschland - Baettr
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Beschreibung
Category Sourcing Manager - Germany
A new position as Global Category Sourcing Manager at our facility in Germany
Baettr is a growing company in the renewable energy sector offering you a great opportunity to take part of our ambitious journey to enable more sustainable products and processes.
We are right now looking for our new Category Sourcing Manager for our new facility in Ostfriesland. Here you will play a key role in building up structure of our supplier base in Ostfriesland in close collaboration with our local purchasing team.
You will become a part of a global organization that is dedicated to green energy and with skilled and motived colleagues around the world.
As Category Sourcing Manager you will be responsible for driving strategic sourcing activities within own spend areas, to ensure a competitive and sustainable supplier base is in place. Primarily for our locations in Europe. You will become part of a skilled and competent global team of colleagues with direct reporting to our Vice President of Sourcing, Joen Oestergaard.
"Our team's ability to contribute through a professional and forward-thinking approach is key to succeed with the exiting growth path laying ahead of our company." States Joen Oestergaard "For the right candidate it is an eminent chance to make your mark on the sourcing function towards a more sustainable future".
Your key task main responsibilities
Your main role will be to support our sites in Europe in both Germany, Sweden, and Denmark in developing the supply base within your own categories ensuring strong partnerships. This includes selecting the right suppliers and negotiating terms and conditions, with focus on cost and risk mitigation. Working in a global function, you will also find yourself supporting colleagues at Baettr's sites in China and India. Involvement in CAPEX projects as well as more local driven sourcing tasks shall also be expected. Your main activities will include:
In Baettr we have a strong focus on ESG and sustainability with a high dedication towards the green energy transition. It influences the way we think, act, and prioritize activities globally as well as within our own functions. Not least for Group Sourcing playing a pivotal role. You can read our sustainability report
Professional and personal qualifications
It is important that you hold good interpersonal skills with a positive mindset, whereas collaboration both locally and globally is key to have success as a Global Category Sourcing Manager within Baettr.
You should have the ability to communicate in a global environment – both face to face and on a distance.
You will be working out of our foundry in Südbrookmerland in Germany, however there will also be travel days to our different location around the world, but mainly in Sweden and Denmark.
Baettr has an informal culture where innovative ideas and constructive feedback are always welcomed
We offer a job in a dynamic, future-oriented, and international organization where we live our values: Be Accountable, Imagine Better and Be Respectful. Therefore, it is important that you can identify with our values and help us live these in everyday life. We emphasize a good and comfortable work environment where there is room and space for our differences and where we take care of the individual. We emphasize innovation and promote development according to our vision: Engineering the Foundation for Future Generations.
Place of work:Gewerbestraße
Südbrookmerland
Application deadline:
As soon as possible Apply