You manage global indirect sourcing operations, building a new team and establishing efficient processes while overseeing service contracts for essential materials.
Anforderungen
- •Bachelor’s degree in business administration
- •5+ years’ experience in sourcing
- •20% domestic and international travel required
- •Results oriented in collaborating internationally
- •Excellent written communication skills
- •Strong verbal communication skills
- •Professional negotiation skills
- •Considerate of legal requirements
- •Independent problem solving skills
- •Ability to handle multiple priorities
- •Experience in indirect sourcing
- •Solid understanding of purchasing processes
- •Familiarity with ERP systems
Deine Aufgaben
- •Oversee global 3rd party spend management
- •Select international sourcing projects and categories
- •Build an indirect sourcing organization for Surfaces Solution
- •Set up indirect sourcing processes and services contracts
- •Focus on a professional sourcing process for indirect materials
Deine Vorteile
Curious minds from diverse backgrounds
Variety driving excellence and innovation
Commitment to access and opportunities
Culture of inclusion and belonging
Original Beschreibung
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# Head of Indirect Sourcing (all genders)
Work Your Magic with us!
Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.
Everything we do in Electronics is to help us deliver on our purpose of being the company behind the companies, advancing digital living. We are dedicated to being the trusted supplier of high-tech materials, services and specialty chemicals for the electronics, automotive and cosmetics industries. We foster a global collaborative organization made up of individuals who have the passion to win, obsess about the customer, are relentlessly curious and act with urgency. Together, we push the boundaries of science to make more possible for our customers.
**Your role:** As a Sourcing Manager (all genders) specializing in Indirect Sourcing, you will be part of the international Surface Solutions Sourcing Team and will report directly to the Head of Sourcing for Surface Solutions in Germany. You will oversee and select 3rd party spend and category management for Surface Solutions globally as well as for selected international sourcing projects and categories. The main task of your position is to build up an indirect Sourcing organization for Surfaces Solution for the time after the transforming into a new company.
This position will set up all indirect sourcing processes, managing services contracts and being focused on a professional sourcing process of all needed indirect materials and services.
The Surface Solutions business unit, a mid-sized multinational leader in the pigments industry, is subject to a planned divestment to the company Global New Materials International (GNMI), headquartered in China, as of August 1st 2025. This role will be part of the divestment.
**Wer Sie sind:**
* Bachelor’s degree in business administration, supply chain, or operations management or other related discipline or equivalent experience and knowledge in lieu of education
* 5+ years’ experience in Sourcing or in materials businesses, supply chain, logistics or commercial business environment
* 20% Domestic and International travel required
* Results oriented and experienced in collaborating internationally
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills
* Professional negotiation and contracting skills, considerate of legal and regulatory requirements
* Independent problem solving/decision making and the ability to handle multiple, opposing priorities
* Willingness to travel within US and abroad
* Experience in indirect sourcing (logistics / maintenance, repair & operations, utilities, …)
* Solid understanding of purchasing processes and ERP systems (SAP/ARIBA preferred)
**What we offer:** We are curious minds that come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We believe that this variety drives excellence and innovation, strengthening our ability to lead in science and technology. We are committed to creating access and opportunities for all to develop and grow at your own pace. Join us in building a culture of inclusion and belonging that impacts millions and empowers everyone to work their magic and champion human progress!
Job Requisition ID:
287965
Location:
Gernsheim
Career Level:
D - Professional (4-9 years)
Working time model:
full-time, part-time possible
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