Skill Profile:

·       Completed studies and 5+ years professional experience in different roles, incl. strategic sourcing.

·       Mandatory language skills (English)

·       Strong technical and commercial understanding of the forwarding and packaging business

·       Willingness to travel (25%)

·       Profound understanding of business and supply chain TCO

·       Strong communication and facilitation skills / stakeholder management

·       Decision making/strategic thinking.

·       Internal stakeholder management/supplier relationship management

Main Responsibilities:

·       Enhance and implement global purchasing strategy.

·       Drive standardization of purchasing globally and build and disseminate category-specific expertise.

·       Run global RFx

·       Negotiations frame contracts with main/ preferred suppliers

·       Drive standardization of reporting and process governance globally

·       Lead negotiations supported by regional buyers.

·       Work closely with supply chain regarding demand challenge and price agreements

·       Develops strategies for the logistics forwarding and packaging spend.

·       Conducts frequent risk assessment, designing and managing adequate measures to address supply and price risk for selected spend.

·       Contributes to delivering bottom line / top line results, managing the commodity spend / projects according to long term planning and upfront aligned targets

·       Contributes to simplification and optimization of sourcing processes as needed.

Key Outputs:

·       Global sourcing strategy

·       Development of Target Supplier Panel

·       Demand Management (in cross-functional efforts)

·       Contract and performance summary for stakeholders

·       Compliant frame contracts

·       Reporting (savings/performance)

·       Early involvement in specification and demand management and involvement of SCM/planning

·       TCO optimization.

Purpose of Role and Value add:

·       Role: Commodity manager Logistics forwarding and packaging (approx. global spend of 90 M €)

·       Drive standardization and cross-functional optimization (global standards, optimized usage, preferred suppliers, decreased complexity)

·       Ongoing analysis of the various sub-categories as well as identification and realization of savings potential and cost optimization based on expertise, bundling and global leverage.

·       Build strong and reliable relationships with key stakeholders and suppliers.