Global Category Lead (m/f/d) Packaging / Corporate Procurement

Global Category Lead (m/f/d) Packaging / Corporate Procurement

Location: Wesel near Düsseldorf

Responsibilities

Exciting opportunities await you – Take on a key role in our purchasing team and lead the global and strategic procurement of the Packaging category. Your responsibilities in detail:

  • Creation and implementation of global and regional purchasing strategies in close coordination with the category team in the divisions
  • Functional leadership of the cross-divisional category team
  • Development and implementation of a value creation portfolio to ensure cost- and quality-optimized supply to production sites
  • Conducting regional and global tenders, considering site-specific conditions with the aim of achieving best-cost results
  • Continuous evaluation and optimization of the supplier portfolio
  • Commercial responsibility for strategic suppliers at the global and regional levels
  • Business partnering in the divisions to capture divisional expectations and reflect them in purchasing decisions

Requirements

With this profile, you convince us – You will be ideally qualified if you hold a degree in Business, Engineering, or Business Chemistry and have already gained extensive experience in global strategic procurement for packaging materials (or similar). Your proven conceptual and implementation strength will help you successfully implement innovative purchasing strategies. Your further skills:

  • Experience in the strategic procurement of packaging materials in an industrial environment is desirable
  • Experience in international and intercultural cooperation as well as very good English language skills, both written and spoken
  • Excellent organizational understanding with a strong service / stakeholder orientation
  • Target group-oriented communication skills
  • High personal persuasiveness and results orientation
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Our Plus

You can count on ALTANA – By joining the ALTANA Group, you will be working in an organisation with a unique culture of innovation which encourages individual ideas and talent, and promotes open, trusted collaboration. ALTANA offers you a lot of advantages. 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

About us

Some 100 people work at ALTANA AG’s headquarters in Wesel. The strategic management holding
company comprises the executive board as well as the following departments: Innovation, Finance, Controlling, Legal / Compliance, Corporate Communications, Corporate Development, Internal Audit and Human Resources.

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ALTANA AG and its subsidiaries is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability.


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