Category buyer Jobs in Frankfurt

The Position :

Curious about how your expertise in maritime transport can drive international impact?

As a Regional Category Buyer – Maritime Transport at INEOS Styrolution, you will be responsible for securing cost-effective, reliable, and innovative logistics solutions for our European operations. Your focus will be on key categories like containerized sea freight, airfreight, and barging, ensuring smooth and efficient supply chain performance.

This is more than just a procurement role – it’s an opportunity to drive cost savings, improve operational efficiency, and be a project lead. You will develop and execute comprehensive procurement strategies, manage high-impact tenders, and collaborate with global stakeholders to enhance value across the organization. In this role, you’ll be encouraged to be proactive, show initiative and bring your own ideas.

What you will do :

• Procurement strategy :  Develop and implement comprehensive procurement strategies for sea-, airfreight and barging categories to optimize our supply chain.
• Tender Management : Lead and coordinate global annual maritime tenders. Leveraging your negotiation skills to secure the most favorable terms and conditions and the subsequent contract creations. Completed by further smaller but regular tenders and price negotiations in the categories airfreight, seafreight and barging.
• Stakeholder management : Build and maintain strong relationships with logistics service providers, fostering collaboration and innovation to create value for the organization. Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure alignment and support, driving value across the organization.
• Barging capacity : You will procure the required barging capacity to ensure a reliable supply of liquid raw materials to our Western European production sites.
• Logistics Optimization : Continuously seeking out opportunities to reduce costs and improve efficiency, without compromising quality or service.

What you will bring :

The Location :

The position can be performed at the company locations Frankfurt (head office), Antwerp or Cologne.

We Have Great Chemistry

We believe diversity is perceiving difference; inclusion is valuing it. Without inclusion, we cannot unlock the value that diversity has to offer. Everyone has a seat at our company table. Our employees bring their unique selves to work daily, have a sense of belonging, and contribute to our core values. We have an inclusive approach, which is open and transparent. We respect and value diversity and believe in equality of opportunity. We do this by valuing and respecting cultural differences and welcoming diversity of thought and perspectives from all our employees.

We are excited to hear from you and share more about our organization.

Your INEOS Styrolution Recruitment Team

Application :

If you're driven by results and eager to make a strategic impact in European logistics procurement, apply today! Join our European Procurement team as Regional Category Buyer and make an international impact in Procurement.

Please submit your application and resume to EMEA Recruitment Manager Eva Haverkate.

E-mail address : LI-EH1