Your role

• Contribute to the development and implementation of procurement strategies for third-party manufacturing categories in alignment with Supply Chain and business needs
• Analyze, monitor, and evaluate procurement markets for this category.
• Assess supplier capabilities, technology fit and capacity to support category-specific 3PM requirements
• Ensure spend visibility and transparency across the 3PM supplier base and drive cost savings and cost optimization
• Support supplier registration and onboarding in relevant systems and processes, and manage supplier-related master data and price information in relevant systems (e.g. SAP Ariba)
• Responsible for the supplier management process, including contract development and negotiations, qualification, escalations, and supplier root cause analysis for quality issues
• Engage with senior internal stakeholders and external partners on supplier topics, negotiations, and escalations.
• Build and maintain strong supplier relationships with strategic 3PM partners
• Support process and system changes and improvements in collaboration with the Sourcing Excellence team and actively contribute to projects

Your profile

• You have a degree in Business Administration or comparable
• You have at least 3-5 years of professional experience in procurement or in supply chain, third-party manufacturing/contract manufacturing
• You are a team player with strong negotiation skills, a determined and convincing personality, and strong analytical skills
• You have good SAP knowledge in SAP R/3 or S/4HANA (MM) as well as Ariba
• Your working language is English, knowledge of German is an advantage
• FMCG experience is an advantage
• Occasional business travel is required