Job Description
As worldwide experts in filtration, MANN+HUMMEL develops solutions for vehicles, industrial applications, clean air inside vehicles and the sustainable use of water. With team spirit and an open culture of communication, we are continuously working towards achieving our vision of `leadership in filtration'.
Role Summary
The role is responsible for developing and executing the regional procurement strategy, managing the Purchasing HUBs and ensuring cost-effective procurement. This role requires a strategic thinker with strong leadership skills to drive procurement excellence across the EMEA region. Further, the position has an overall supervision of project purchasing and VA/VE initiatives. In this role, you will report directly to the Chief Procurement Officer.
Your Profile
- Develop and implement the EMEA procurement strategy aligned with global objectives
- Lead, mentor, and manage the regional procurement team
- Direct line Leadership for all purchasing employees within the MANN+HUMMEL sites of the HUBs. This includes staffing, workload balancing, hiring, performance evaluations, training and qualification in alignment with respective local site management
- Responsibility to achieve Purchasing targets (e.g. material cost and other purchasing performance KPIs).
- Collaborate with global procurement teams to align strategies and share best practices
- Ensure compliance with legal, regulatory, and corporate standards
- Cost budget ownership, incl. planning, tracking and reporting
- Escalation level for plant/site specific purchasing topics; incl. regional support of bottleneck management
- Overall supervision of VA/VE, e.g. negotiations, VA/VE, material changes & supplier cost down ("ratio") projects and supplier risk management
- Overall supervision of global project purchasing in ensuring quality (e.g. APQP), timely delivery and material cost
- Ensuring application of PU-methods, tools, procedures and reporting
- Build and lead "high performance" purchasing team. Ensure development of employees in hard and soft skills - e.g. legal, commercial, negotiation, technical, risk management, project management skills
Your challenge:
- Education: Successfully completed University degree; MBA or MS in Supply Chain Management or Purchasing is preferred
- Experience: Minimum of 10+ years of purchasing experience in a global industrial enterprise setting
- Expertise:
- Experience in respective materials, components, technologies, production processes and supply chain concepts
- Excellent communication skills and understanding to manage change throughout the company
- Proven direct and indirect leadership and team development skills
- Good P&L and controlling knowledge
- IT and ERP Knowledge (e.g. MS-Office, SAP or similar)
- Language skills: Fluent in English written and spoken, further language skills would be advantageous
- Personality:
- Highly organized, creative and motivated team player with strong drive to succeed
- Strong analytical and controlling skills
- Must have the ability to interact and execute at the highest levels (including C-level)
We offer
- You work with a high degree of independence and scope for decision-making.
- Performance-related pay and extensive social benefits
- 35 hours per week or trust-based working hours (depending on the position) and flexible working hours plus 30 days' vacation
- We value the benefits of both mobile working and presence in the office and have therefore introduced an arrangement that allows our employees to work in the office three days a week and mobile two days a week.
- Everyone has talent: our talent management process supports you in your professional developmentCompany restaurant
- Places at a private kindergarten in the immediate vicinity (both U3 and Ü3 places)
- A modern company pension scheme to supplement your statutory pension insurance
- Additional private health insurance (e.g. supplementary dental insurance)Various company sports groups to promote the health and well-being of our employees
- A large number of discounts in our Corporate Benefits Portal (e.g. on vacation trips, fashion, insurance, etc.)
- Subsidy for the Deutschlandticket
- Job bike