At VAT, we change the world with vacuum solutions and are the world’s leading supplier of high-performance vacuum valves. Joining us means becoming part of a passionate, international team where your voice is heard, your ideas matter, and your career growth is supported.
The Strategic Sourcing Manager acts as a business partner to key stakeholders in business and operations, sustaining the Global Category Management Operating Model and providing supply capability and capacity at best cost to support the company’s future business needs and protection of brand value.
Tasks
- Manage own material categories, focusing on Elastomer, Rubber and Plastics (capacity, knowledge management, performance).
- Contribute to the global Direct Material & Supply Base Performance (QCD).
- Represent own direct material categories within the VAT organization.
- Achieve category-specific objectives in cost optimization, supply base optimization, geographic sourcing footprint and Best Cost Country Sourcing.
- Provide forward-looking guidance on trends, threats and opportunities in own categories (e.g. raw materials).
- Actively contribute to the bottom-up alignment of the Direct Materials Category Team with company objectives.
- Interface with Business Units and Engineering for Strategic Sourcing activities along the PDP process.
- Act as a change agent regarding main stakeholders.
- Develop category sourcing strategies applying and complying with defined methods and tools.
- Manage supplier relationships of the global supply base within own category perimeter in alignment with category teams in Switzerland, Malaysia and Romania.
Requirements
- Further education in Procurement or equivalent; ideally a Master’s degree or similar.
- Preferably 4-8 years of in-depth strategic sourcing experience with solid working knowledge of global category management direct materials.
- Preferably strong experience on the electronic sourcing market dealing with EMS suppliers as well as components.
- Demonstrated work experience on category-specific production techniques and processes.
- Working experience within a global complex organization; understanding of cross-functional and cross-cultural change management is essential.
- Strong contract negotiation skills, ideally with practice in global industrial manufacturing companies.
- Experience with Power BI or similar data analytics tools preferable.
- Solid people and change management skills, stakeholder engagement, cross-functional project leadership skills, strong analytical skills and ability to focus on essential facts, able to get results through others, able to multi-task, ability to work under pressure.
- Fluent in English and good level of German desirable.
Benefits
We believe in meaningful careers, continuous learning, and equal opportunities for everyone to drive our innovation and success. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and respectful workplace.
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