Strategic Category Manager_Purchasing

Job Description

Stakeholder Partnership

Act as interface and represent the interests of Continental and the Purchasing Community towards all internal and external stakeholders ( Engineering, Plants, Suppliers)
Understands the business and purchasing strategy to derive actions for own managed category
Guide, support and train local and central stakeholders to execute with the right tools, methods and processes

Category Management

Develop and sustain (supplier) strategy for respective integrated category in alignment with all relevant stakeholders and supervisors ( Engineering, Regions, Plants) and in compliance with all relevant purchasing processes, guidelines and procedures
Understand multiple data management systems and manage data analytics for the respective integrated category (identify spend profile and concentration, estimate / predict demand etc.)
Turns strategy into concrete actions and tangible goals...