One of the worlds leading F&B companies is recruiting a Category Manager, MRO to join its team in Germany.
You will be joining a mature procurement function with over 50+ procurement professionals.
Reporting to the Senior Category Manager, you will manage the MRO Category across Europe. This role will lead a major upcoming project to standardise parts across the group.
This will be a highly strategic role and you will devise and implement category strategies across your regions, building strong supplier relationships, optimising costs, and mitigating risks.
The business has an entrepreneurial type culture and it will give you the flexibility to be as creative and experimental in your way of working.
Responsibilities
- You will support the development and execution of all strategically defined CAPEX & MRO sub-categories and present to key stakeholders to get overall alignment.
- Support Negotiations of major MRO and Capex contracts and lead smaller local contract negotiations for the assigned categories.
- You will regularly report on MRO and Capex market trends through market insights gathered by supplier and trade show visits.
- Together with key stakeholders located across Europe, you will develop and achieve a pipeline of initiatives, projects, and activities with a focus on sustainable cost base reduction.
- You will help to solve operational issues (e.g. efficiency workstreams, supply interruptions, contractual disputes) if needed.
- And you will support your team and the company in coherent development and application of our wider policies and objectives.
Benefits:
- A competitive salary
- 30 days leave
- bonus
- Training and development programmes
- Much more