Job Description
We are ALTANA: one group of companies – four divisions: BYK, ECKART, ELANTAS, and ACTEGA. Global leader in specialty chemicals with about 8,000 employees, sales of more than 2.7 billion euros, and myriad opportunities for you to develop and grow. Would you like to enrich your life with this decisive plus?
ALTANA Management Services GmbH, a company of the ALTANA Group, bundles internal services and competencies across divisions. At our sites in Wesel and Güntersthal, more than 100 people work in purchasing, occupational safety, as well as in general administration, accounting services, payroll, IT services, digital transformation, intellectual property, and further capacities.
Head of Procurement Excellence (m/f/d)
Location: Wesel near Düsseldorf
Exciting opportunities await you – As Head of Procurement Excellence, your task will be the methodical, strategic and systemic development of ALTANA's procurement organization. In addition, you will also be responsible for all sustainability and regulatory topics in procurement across ALTANA (e.g. LkSG, CO₂ reporting). Your other tasks include:
- Responsibility for the global category management process in a matrix organization and its further development with the global procurement community
- Direct leadership of 6 employees
- Optimization, digitization and automation of procurement processes, with a view to increasing efficiency
- Development and establishment of the supplier management (approval, qualification, development and auditing) with a special focus on supply risks
- Responsibility for the risk management in procurement
- Implementation of the ALTANA forecast for the global raw materials portfolio
- Conception and organization of procurement trainings
- Organization of the ALTANA-wide cross-divisional target setting process in procurement with KPI development / reporting / planning process and performance / procurement controlling
- Development of procurement engineering with global sourcing, value chain engineering and market and supplier analyses
With this profile, you convince us – If you are implementation- and results-oriented and bring extensive experience in procurement within manufacturing companies, preferably in the chemical industry and international project management, we are interested in you. You should also possess experience with sustainability and regulatory topics in procurement. Your other skills and competencies include:
- Completed master's / diploma or bachelor's degree in the field of economics, engineering, chemistry or similar
- Experience with procurement controlling or forecasting
- Good process understanding in purchasing
- Experience with process optimization and the implementation of new procurement processes
- Leadership experience is an advantage
- Very good English skills (spoken and written)
- Willingness to travel is desirable
- Strong organizational understanding with a service / stakeholder orientation
- Excellent communication skills at different hierarchical levels
You can count on ALTANA – By joining the ALTANA Group, you will be working in an organization with a unique culture of innovation which encourages individual ideas and talent, and promotes open, trusted collaboration. In detail: Look forward to a position in a stable company that is excellently positioned for the future. You will also enjoy:
- A comfortable working environment where everyone knows each other personally and exchanges views, as well as short information and decision-making paths
- An excellent environment for implementing your ideas paired with constructive openness to new developments and other ways of thinking
- Modern pension schemes
- Flexible working hours with options to work partially remotely
- Very attractive development opportunities in a globally active and growing group of companies