Category Manager EME ,India

Job Summary

Category Manager EME, India

Responsibilities

• Material and Supplier strategy: Derive strategy and actions for managed categories based on internal stakeholder, business needs and market situation.
• Develop a material and supplier strategy: Conduct market / internal demand analysis and benchmarks.
• Drive the strategy definition process with cross-functional partners.
• Ensure that Continentals requirements are reflected in the strategy.
• Document and implement the strategy in all BAs/locations worldwide.
• Conduct regular supplier evaluation with main stakeholders.
• Stakeholder management: Category & Supplier Management
• Guide, support and train internal stakeholders to execute by using right tools, methods and processes.
• Ensure the alignment and implementation of the category strategy within the organization (e.g., communicate sourcing market trends, category results).
• Ensure that suppliers fulfill the legal requirements by applying Contintentals processes, tools and templates.
• Support escalations at internal and external stakeholder.
• Achieve best market conditions: Actively influence the sourcing process through: Supply market analysis / supplier selection.
• Negotiate prices and closure of contracts.
• Sourcing decision.
• Identify and lift bundling opportunities for own category.
• Negotiation: Drive annual negotiations to constantly improve the cost situation.
• Negotiate with suppliers.
• Apply negotiation concepts to actively support and execute bundling within the respective Category.
• Negotiate non-conformance cost with suppliers.
• Monitor and adapt existing demands, volumes and/or service level agreements.
• Contract Management: Ensure fulfillment of all necessary requirements by negotiating and concluding legally binding contracts (e.g. frame-, project related contracts, YPSA) with the respective suppliers and process & audit-compliant documentation.
• Ensure effective contract lifecycle management.
• Data maintenance: Ensure in time implementation of correct data in the respective IT-systems.
• Monthly controlling and correction of local data and target achievement.
• Project management/Continous Cost reduction: Initiate and support value-engineering, re-design and cost reduction programs, make or buy decisions and content challenge.
• Initiate and drive together with the internal stakeholders supplier improvement programs if needed (performance, costs), initiate the new supplier introduction process.
• Sustainability & Risk managment: Identify, assess, and mitigate supply chain and procurement risks with respect to geopolitical, geohazard, finacial or material risks .
• Develop and implement risk mitigation strategies together with the involved stakeholders.
• Ensure supply chain compliance with sustainability regulations, legal requirements and sustainability standards.

Your profile

• Bachelor / Master University degree in Engineering or relevant professional experience , with minimum 20 years of experience