Corporate Procurement Manager / Global Distribution Manager (m/f/d)

Responsibilities

Exciting opportunities await you As Corporate Procurement Manager / Global Distribution Manager you are responsible for the global, strategic procurement for ALTANA-wide spend with distributors of chemical raw materials, including security of supply.

You will closely engage with Category Managers to align on distributor vs. supplier spend. Your other tasks include :

• Implementation of regional or global Key Account Managers on the distributor side
• Creation, coordination, and implementation of global and regional procurement strategies in close cooperation with procurement teams in the divisions
• Functional management of the cross-divisional procurement team
• Development and implementation of a value-creation portfolio to ensure cost- and quality-optimized supply to the production sites
• Carrying out regional and global tenders, taking into account site-specific business requirements with the target of achieving best-cost results
• Ongoing evaluation and optimization of the distributor portfolio
• Commercial responsibility regarding strategic distributors at global and regional levels
• Business partnering within the divisions to capture divisional expectations and reflect them in procurement decisions

We invite you to get to know us better and to become part of our team. Discover your career plus in specialty chemistry.

Please send us your application, preferably via our job market .

ALTANA Management Services GmbH Petra Heinrichs HR Tel. +49 281 670 - 26002

Requirements

With this profile, you convince us If you completed a Master's, Diploma or Bachelor's degree in the field of economics / engineering / business chemistry or similar and bring along Several years of experience in strategic procurement with a global product group, we are looking for you! Experience in strategic procurement within an industrial environment is a plus! Your other skills and competencies include :

• Proven strengths in conception and implementation
• Excellent organizational understanding with strong service and stakeholder orientation
• Target group-oriented communication skills
• High degree of personal persuasiveness and results orientation
• Experience in international and intercultural cooperation, as well as very good written and spoken English skills

Our Plus

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

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

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ALTANA Management Services GmbH

Location : Wesel

Wesel

About us

ALTANA Management Services GmbH, a company of the ALTANA Group, bundles internal services and competencies across divisions.

At our sites in Wesel and Güntersthal, more than 100 people work in purchasing, occupational safety, as well as in general administration, accounting services, payroll, IT services, digital transformation, intellectual property, and further capacities.

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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.