Global Category Manager (m/f/d) - Compounding materials
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Global Category Manager (m/f/d) - Compounding materials, Porto
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Location:
Porto, Portugal
Job Category:
Other
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EU work permit required:
Yes
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Posted:
23. 06. 2025
Expiry Date:
07. 08. 2025
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Job Description:
Job Description
Category Strategy:
- Build up and maintain portfolio strategy in line with the BA needs and define a well balanced portfolio to minimize risk, to ensure flexibility, to get an advantage position on the supplier market.
- Define, deliver and update a Sourcing List.
- Identify and onboard new potential suppliers where the need is identified
- Identify any value improvement activities and steer implementation.
- To present and align the strategies with BA stakeholders
Commercial:
- To handle all negotiations at the Category Supplier
- To negotiate and maintain necessary global contracts
- To support Advance Purchasing with complex / difficult negotiations
- Manage suppliers in representation of the BA
- Support Region Purchasing for Quality, Supply and Commercial escalation
- Trouble shooting: Support the plants as next escalation level in case of supply problems (quality or delivery)
Reporting:
- Share market situation with stakeholders
- To report Categories performance in regular base
Qualifications
- Bachelor degree; in exceptional cases an equivalent professional experience
- At least several years in Purchasing, thereof a few yearsin automotive
- Strong Purchasing Portfolio Handling (Strategy, Supplier List, Market Know How, Portfolio Analyse, Forecast) & Contractualization
- Negotiation experience : RFQ, Offer analyse and comparison, Negotiation
- Ability to work whitin a remote team
- Project Management experience is a plus
- Functional or project leadership experience is a plus
- Several years exposure to international business
- Experience of living abroad is a plus
- Fluent English and good German language skills is a plus (written and spoken)
- Business trip to be expected (up to 30% of working time max)
Additional Information
What we offer:
- Lunch Allowance: in line with local regulation
- Flexibility -Flexible schedule, hybrid work.
- Home-Office -Employees received 1, 00€ net for each Home-Office day, paid monthly.
- Work Abroad -Possibility to work abroad within the EU for 20+20 days per year (two different countries).
- Vacation days - 22 days per year + 3 extra days the following year (considering absenteeism). Seniority days added starting from 3 years in the company.
- Referral Bonus -A bonus of 500€ or 750€ (depending on the seniority of the candidate) is paid for each referral.
- Informações detalhadas sobre a oferta de emprego
Empresa: Continental Localização: Porto
Porto, Porto District, PortugalPublicado: 10. 7. 2025
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