Purchasing Category Manager - Consulting

The Hager is looking to strengthen its Indirect Sourcing with a Category Manager for Professional Services.

Your main responsibility is to structure and drive category purchasing topics at corporate level for all Hager entities, worldwide with a focus on France and Germany.

You will act as interface between Hager’s stakeholders and consultancy providers in the scope of business services, digital and technical solutions development and manage associated category panel of vendors & associated purchasing activities.

Your typical purchasing activities are related to:\n\n

Business consultancy (Marketing, Innovation, Manufacturing, HR and other)

Digital applications, cloud platform and software developments (Io

T, Embedded, Architecture etc.)

Strategic consulting

Engineering and solution developments

Project management (Amoa, SCRUM, Kanban, Waterfall or other)

Others technical projects such as in R&D, Laboratory, etc.\n\n

The position will be based either in Obernai (France) or in Blieskastel (Germany) for a pernament contract.\n\n

Your Responsibilities\n\n

Being accountable to design, structure and animate category panel of vendors / service providers and other business partners in order to reach Hager Groups objectives regarding quality, costs, lead time, compliance and sustainable criteria to ensure the application of concerned purchasing strategy. To do so she/he leads the commercial negotiations.

Organize and drive market benchmark, competition (Call-for-Tenders) and selection process with multi-domain stakeholders.