You will oversee procurement activities for raw materials, ensuring effective collaboration with stakeholders while supporting sourcing processes, category strategies, and supplier relationships to enhance performance.
Anforderungen
- •Minimum 5 years relevant commercial experience
- •International work experience in FMCGs
- •Strong knowledge in Source-to-Pay Processes
- •Analytical drive to perform market analysis
- •Knowledge to conduct spend analysis
- •Strong analytical skills in supplier assessment
- •Understanding of financial assessment
- •Expert in RFx support and execution
- •Knowledge about e-auction development
- •Experience with contract planning and execution
- •Strong knowledge in contract negotiations
- •Understanding of Supply Chain Management
- •Experience with Supplier Relationship Management
- •Ability to assess risk and handle claims
- •Knowledge about governance policies and procedures
- •Understanding of CSR
- •Master's degree or equivalent
- •Fluent in English (spoken and written)
Deine Aufgaben
- •Support global and regional strategies with stakeholders.
- •Prepare and support RFx with local stakeholders.
- •Assist in NPI/NPD and sourcing activities.
- •Collect TCO input and provide regular feedback.
- •Maintain communication with commercial business units.
- •Promote Group Procurement function locally.
- •Contribute to category strategy development.
- •Share and implement best practices across categories.
- •Handle escalations on returns and claims.
- •Manage local stakeholders daily.
- •Conduct category analytics and database management.
- •Support budget process with cost structure analysis.
- •Coordinate Supplier Performance reviews and value improvement.
- •Perform administrative tasks as needed.
- •Implement and monitor contractual commitments.
- •Engage in problem-solving for quality issues.
- •Support SLA annual review for KPIs.
- •Secure sugar volumes and prices per hedging policy.
Original Beschreibung
Posting Date:
14 May 2025
Location:
Ziegelbrucke, CH
Entity / company:
Integrated Supply Chain (ISC)
# Category manager - Raw Materials WE Procurement (Technical products & Ingredients)
**Category manager – Raw Materials WE Procurement (Technical products & Ingredients)**
Location: Ziegelbrucke, Switzerland
**Role overview**
We are looking for a Category Manager who supports or handles the execution of category strategies on a local, regional or global basis. RCM participates and contributes into strategy development. RCM brings expertise directly to the day to day work in Local, regional or global basis.
**What you’ll be doing**
* Support global and regional strategies in countries in alignment with local stakeholders and the Country Procurement teams.
* Preparation and support of RFx in cooperation with Team Lead, local stakeholders and the Country Procurement teams.
* Support NPI/NPD, value engineering and sourcing activities in accordance with Carlsberg’s standardized sourcing process.
* Collect local TCO input and ensure regular feedback from/to local business units, among others reporting of TCO relevant statistics.
* Maintain good and trustworthy support, contact and communicate to commercial business and local supply chain on all levels.
* Actively promote the Group Procurement function and CSC requirements locally.
* Actively provide input to category strategy.
* Actively support sharing and implementation of cross-functional best practices across categories and countries.
* Escalation point on returns/claims before Team Lead, when financial impact.
* Local stakeholder management on an on-going daily basis.
* Category analytics and database management.
* Support budget process through deep cost structure understanding.
* Co-ordinate and run Supplier Performance reviews where agreed with Team Lead, setting and delivering clear value improvement agenda with suppliers / stakeholders.
* Other administrative tasks.
* Support implementation of contractual commitments above threshold spend and follow up on performance.
* Active involvement in problem solving (i.e. quality issues) and claim handling.
* Actively support the Service Level Agreement (SLA) annual review of targets for KPIs and subsequently update the SLA.
* Securing sugar volumes and prices according to Group’s Commodity Hedging Policy.
**What we’re looking for**
* Minimum 5 years relevant commercial experience within all aspects of strategic & tactical procurement on regional or global level.
* International work experience in related industry, FMCGs within raw materials category, preferably in virtual team.
* Strong knowledge and experience in application of Source-to-Pay Processes.
* Analytical drive to independently perform market and industry analysis.
* General knowledge and experience to conduct spend & demand analysis.
* Strong analytical skills – leverage quantitative & qualitative information to assess, screen and select suppliers, e.g. through Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
* General understanding of financial assessment.
* Expert in RFx related support including optimal execution.
* Common knowledge about e-auction development and execution.
* Direct experience with contract planning and execution.
* Strong knowledge about contract negotiations.
* General understanding of Supply Chain Management and LEAN tools.
* Experience with Supplier Relationship Management.
* Ability to assess risk, handle claims and solve related issues.
* Thorough knowledge about governance/policies & procedures.
* General understanding of CSR.
**Growth Mindset**
* We live growth mindset culture in Carlsberg, we are looking for new colleagues who:
* Live by Semper Ardens (always burning) and constantly strive for the extraordinary.
* Foster an environment of positive energy and compassion.
* Passionate about the consumer in everything we do.
* Decide fast and deliver with excellence.
* Empower, support, and grow our people to reach their full potential.
**Education:**
* A higher theoretical and commercial background, equivalent to a Master degree.
**Languages:**
* Fluent in English (spoken and written).