Category Purchasing Expert - Glazing (f/m/x)

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Webasto is hiring a Category Purchasing Expert for Glazing f/m/x to join its procurement team in Stockdorf, Germany, full time onsite. The role focuses on developing category strategies, managing supplier panels and contract negotiations, ensuring supply security, mitigating supplier risks, and driving sustainability and compliance. Ideal candidates have a Bachelor’s or Master’s in business, engineering, or a related field and 3–5 years in purchasing or supply chain, preferably in automotive or glazing; strong negotiation and stakeholder skills; a strategic, data driven mindset and fluent English. Tips: tailor your CV to show category wins, cost savings, risk management, and cross functional projects; quantify impact; apply online and contact Martin Czembor with questions. Applications from qualified individuals with disabilities are welcome.

Purchasing & Supplier Quality is crucial to our success as a global provider of innovative mobility solutions. As part of the procurement team, you actively help shape the future of mobility. Close collaboration with all business areas ensures the definition and implementation of commodity group strategies, while commercial negotiations have a direct impact on the company's success. Selecting the best and most innovative suppliers guarantees the highest quality standards, as well as sustainable and innovative products. The tasks in procurement are as diverse as they are essential to success.

You can look forward to these exciting tasks:

• Development and execution of the global category strategy in close collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders to drive savings, cash targets, and sustainable value creation
• Management and optimization of supplier panels, including contract negotiations, to secure competitive commercial conditions and long-term partnerships
• Ensuring supply security and mitigating risks by monitoring supplier performance and financial health, as well as proactively managing critical situations (e.g., insolvencies)
• Steering of sourcing activities and identification of cost-saving opportunities through market analysis, strategic sourcing approaches, and global bundling/auctioning
• Driving compliance, sustainability, and performance transparency, including adherence to corporate standards, data integrity, and continuous performance tracking

This is what you bring to us:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business Administration, Engineering, or a related field
• 3–5 years of experience in Purchasing or Supply Chain Management, ideally within the automotive or related industries (e.g., glazing)
• Strong negotiation, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to operate confidently across all organizational levels
• Strategic and analytical mindset paired with business acumen, enabling data-driven decision-making and cross-functional thinking
• Structured, reliable, and results-oriented working style, combined with strong English language skills (additional languages are a plus)

Applications from qualified individuals with disabilities are expressly welcome.

Your contact person:
Martin Czembor, People & Organization Stockdorf 

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