Category Purchasing Specialist (f/m/x)

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Webasto is seeking a Category Purchasing Specialist (f/m/x) to join the Purchasing & Supplier Quality team in Stockdorf, Germany, full time onsite. You will manage battery housing purchasing in a global environment, shape and execute category strategies, optimize the supplier panel and monitor market developments to drive actions through intelligent sourcing such as global bundles, slot sourcing and auctions, while continuously improving commercial terms and VA/VE projects. Ideal candidates hold a technical or business degree with international category purchasing experience, preferably in automotive, and show strong communication, negotiation and networking skills, a confident presence across levels, and a reliable, structured work style. Applications from qualified disabled persons are welcome; apply online and contact Martin Czembor with questions.

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:

• Handles responsibly all relevant purchasing processes for the battery housing in a complex and global environment
• Develops, coordinates and implements the category strategy
• Drives the optimization of the supplier panel to make sure that the panel is continuously updated and fits for all Business unit battery systems and monitors market developments to derive the right conclusions and actions
• Handles responsibly relevant purchasing processes in a complex and global environment and creates additional value to the organization by using intelligent sourcing methods and tactics such as global bundles, slot sourcing, auctions or others
• Continuous improvement of commercial conditions to ensure competitive pricing (negotiations, global bundling, costing and VA/VE projects, etc.)

This is what you bring to us:

• Technical university’s degree or degree in business science and relevant professional experience in the area of category purchasing in an international acting company, ideally in the Automotive industry
• Strong communication, networking and negotiation skills
• Confident appearance on all hierarchical levels
• Strategic, conceptual and analytical skills, interdisciplinary, entrepreneurial and customer-oriented thinking and acting
• Reliable and well-structured way of working

Applications from qualified individuals with disabilities are expressly welcome.

Your contact person:
Martin Czembor, People & Organization Stockdorf 

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