Jobbeschreibung
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.
Corporate Procurement Manager / Global Distribution Manager (m/f/d)
Location: Wesel near Düsseldorf
Exciting opportunities await you – As Corporate Procurement Manager / Global Distribution Manager you are responsible for the global, strategic procurement for ALTANA-wide spend with distributors of chemical raw materials, including security of supply. You will closely engage with Category Managers to align on distributor vs. supplier spend. Your other tasks include:
- Implementation of regional or global Key Account Managers on the distributor side
- Creation, coordination, and implementation of global and regional procurement strategies in close cooperation with procurement teams in the divisions
- Functional management of the cross-divisional procurement team
- Development and implementation of a value-creation portfolio to ensure cost- and quality-optimized supply to the production sites
- Carrying out regional and global tenders, taking into account site-specific business requirements with the target of achieving best-cost results
- Ongoing evaluation and optimization of the distributor portfolio
- Commercial responsibility regarding strategic distributors at global and regional levels
- Business partnering within the divisions to capture divisional expectations and reflect them in procurement decisions
With this profile, you convince us – If you completed a Master's, Diploma or Bachelor's degree in the field of economics / engineering / business chemistry or similar and bring along Several years of experience in strategic procurement with a global product group, we are looking for you! Experience in strategic procurement within an industrial environment is a plus! Your other skills and competencies include:
- Proven strengths in conception and implementation
- Excellent organizational understanding with strong service and stakeholder orientation
- Target group-oriented communication skills
- High degree of personal persuasiveness and results orientation
- Experience in international and intercultural cooperation, as well as very good written and spoken English skills
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