Are you passionate about Wine?
Ready to manage our Alcoholics and Non-Alcoholics categories?
Do you want to learn more about Airline Catering?
Are you fluent in English and German?
We are looking for a Category Manager, responsible for strategic sourcing, procure to pay, supplier relationship management and demand management in relation to an assigned portfolio in the Food & Beverage Area by ensuring on-time and economical supply.
Work closely with all internal areas to determine current and future sourcing needs, gain cross-functional alignment on the best method for fulfilling those needs and monitor ongoing effectiveness of the process. Develop and leverage strategic suppliers to ensure innovation, availability, and total cost of ownership.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Demand Management
- Create transparency, analyze, and understand all sources of spend and demand, e. g. segment spend and create spend portfolios
- Leverage knowledge of organization and suppliers to deploy specification and demand levers and generate innovations from the supply market
- Development and improvement of required goods and service portfolio, e.g., standardization, simplification, re-specification
Strategic Sourcing
- Ensure cost-efficient sourcing within the category, according to specifications
- Continuously monitor and extend understanding of assigned categories, incl. spends, suppliers, products, market structure, price trends vs. paid prices, commodity forecasts, competitive dynamics, trends, demand management levers and risks
- Translate savings targets into sourcing plan and develop short- and long-term supply strategies to achieve targets
- Execute sourcing strategies using strategic sourcing process (build and analyses RFPs, bid evaluation and other analytical models; lead negotiations in line with strategic objectives; ensuring implementation of results)
- Prepare and negotiate contracts and contract updates with suppliers based on defined pricing and quality targets and ensure required confirmation and documentation
- Devise & steer corrective actions in case of deviations to total cost of the overall supply chain strategy
- Develop procedures to reduce supplier and procurement risk including supplier audits and credit checks
- Optimize order management and processes to handle goods and services, e. g. via e-procurement solution
- Responsibility for relevant spend and content data for own categories
- Participate, contribute and/or steer in group wide or regional projects
Supplier Relationship Management
- Segment supply base and develop supplier portfolio to enable competitive, quality & timely response to the customer market
- Develop and manage key suppliers in line with SRM methodology; integrate supplier expertise as appropriate to deliver gategroup’s strategy with focus on cost, product & process improvement; steer the contracting of related product portfolio processes
- Monitor and enhance ongoing performance of suppliers; identify and mitigate risks relating to suppliers
- Conduct supplier audits working closely with Quality team during supplier evaluation process
- Guide & implement the transition of new supplier introductions managing all stakeholders to ensure successful launch
- Implement supplier framework agreement with strategic suppliers with support from Legal, manage contract durations and contract data base
Team management / leadership
- Ensure that the area of responsibility is properly organized
- Functional lead of assigned buyers in different legal entities in Europe
- Support implementation of processes, procedures, principles, guidelines, and systems to comply with corporate and regional standards and objectives and to increase performance and quality of procurement
- Secure and foster internal communication
- Ensure and coordinate activities to support success of category management by working cross functionally with stakeholders and suppliers