Category Manager EME ,India

AUMOVIO; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 6,000,000 - 9,000,000; Full time

Job summary

AUMOVIO in Bengaluru seeks a senior procurement professional to lead material and supplier strategy across global sites. You will partner with internal stakeholders to define category strategies, drive supplier selections, negotiate contracts, and lead cost-reduction initiatives.

With 20+ years of experience, you will ensure governance, sustainability, and risk management across the supply chain while delivering value in a fast‑moving mobility technology environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's in Engineering or related field with extensive experience.
• 20+ years of relevant procurement or supply-chain experience.
• Strong analytical and negotiation skills with vendors.

Responsibilities

• Derive strategy and actions for managed categories based on internal stakeholder needs and market trends.
• Develop a Material and Supplier Strategy and document it for global sites.
• Lead supplier evaluations and cross-functional strategy alignment.
• Drive sourcing decisions, contract management, and cost reduction programs.
• Ensure sustainability and risk controls across the supply chain.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Negotiation

Contract management

Data maintenance

Project management

Cost reduction

Education

Bachelor's/Master in Engineering or related field with extensive experience

Job description

Company Description

In September 2025, AUMOVIO emerged as a spin-off from Continental’s former Automotive group sector and has since established itself as an independent technology company. The company offers a broad portfolio for safe, exciting, connected and autonomous mobility, including sensor solutions, displays, brake and comfort systems as well as extensive expertise in software, architecture platforms and advanced driver assistance systems for software‑defined vehicles. In fiscal year 2025, AUMOVIO generated sales of € 18.5 billion. Headquartered in Frankfurt am Main, AUMOVIO has around 82,000 employees at more than 80 locations worldwide.

Job Description

Material and Supplier strategy

• Derive strategy and actions for managed categories based on internal stakeholder, business needs and market situation
• Develop a Material And Supplier Strategy
• Conduct market / internal demand analysis and benchmarks
• Drive the strategy definition process with cross-functional partners
• Ensure that Continentals requirements are reflected in the strategy
• Document and implement the strategy in all BAs/locations worldwide
• Conduct regular supplier evaluation with main stakeholders

Stakeholder management Category & Supplier Management

• Guide, support and train internal stakeholders to execute by using right tools, methods and processes
• Ensure the alignment and implementation of the category strategy within the organization (e.g., communicate sourcing market trends, category results)
• Ensure that suppliers fulfill the legal requirements by applying Contintentals processes, tools and templates
• Support escalations at internal and external stakeholder

Actively Influence The Sourcing Process Through

• Supply market analysis / supplier selection
• Negotiation of prices and closure of contracts
• Sourcing decision
• Identify and lift bundling opportunities for own category

Negotiation

• Drive annual negotiations to constantly improve the cost situation
• Negotiate with suppliers
• Apply negotiation concepts to actively support and execute bundling within the respective Category
• Negotiate non-conformance cost with suppliers
• Monitor and adapt existing demands, volumes and/or service level agreements.

Contract Management

• Ensure fulfillment of all necessary requirements by negotiating and concluding legally binding contracts (e.g. frame-, project related contracts, YPSA) with the respective suppliers and process & audit-compliant documentation
• Ensure effective contract lifecycle management

Data maintenance

• Ensure in time implementation of correct data in the respective IT-systems
• Monthly controlling and correction of local data and target achievement

Project management/Continous Cost reduction

• Initiate and support value-engineering, re-design and cost reduction programs, make or buy decisions and content challenge
• Initiate and drive together with the internal stakeholders supplier improvement programs if needed (performance, costs), initiate the new supplier introduction process"

Sustainability & Risk managment

• Identify, assess, and mitigate supply chain and procurement risks with respect to geopolitical, geohazard, finacial or material risks .
• Develop and implement risk mitigation strategies together with the involved stakeholders
• Ensure supply chain compliance with sustainability regulations, legal requirements and sustainability standards.

Qualifications

• Bachleors / Master University degree in Engineering or relevant professional experience , with minimum 20 years of experience

Additional Information

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