Strategic Indirect Procurement Lead – Global Suppliers

BDR Thermea HQ; Apeldoorn; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Travel reimbursement

Wellness perks

International, collaborative team

Job summary

BDR Thermea Group is seeking a Category Manager – Indirect Procurement to own end-to-end procurement for non-core spend across the group, including marketing, HR, consultancy and engineering services.

You will collaborate with site management teams and functional stakeholders to develop and implement supplier strategies, negotiate high-value contracts, and travel across the EU to visit plants and suppliers as needed.

Qualifications

• 5+ years' procurement experience in categories Marketing, HR, Consultancy services and engineering services.
• Experience across manufacturing and engineering environments preferable.
• Strong commercial acumen and experience managing large contracts and complex high power suppliers.
• Proficient in collecting, handling, analysing and presenting various types of data.
• Strong presentation and influencing skills.
• Able to collaborate and communicate across multi-functional matrix teams across the multi-cultural Group.
• Confident communicator with the credibility to influence technical and operational stakeholders.
• Proactive, down-to-earth approach with the adaptability to thrive in a transformational environment.
• Close proximity to BDR HQ in Apledoorn, NL, working in the office 3-4 days per week.
• Ability to travel across EU for plant and supplier visits.

Responsibilities

• Procurement ownership of delivering high-value, business-critical projects while gaining exceptional exposure to senior stakeholders.
• Work with functional stakeholders to understand business needs and partnering to deliver best value Procurement solutions for BDR.
• Refine a toolkit to support all future purchases.
• Lead end-to-end procurement of products and services, and site projects from supplier selection to contract management.
• Build strong supplier partnerships to ensure TCO, innovation, value, and long-term reliability.
• Negotiate high-value, complex contracts with service providers.
• Align closely with functional stakeholders to anticipate needs and deliver best-in-class solutions.
• Support local Buyers and teams to negotiate and strategize to procure good and services, ensure should be cost mentality and awareness of key drivers of costs to ensure value for money for all externally purchases.
• Provide guidance on best practise between the Procurement team, funcations and finance.
• Develop a preferred supplier list for specific categories of responsibility, with agreed terms, schedules and measurement criteria/KPI’s.
• Owns the supply strategy and cost down plans for the Category area.
• Establishes service level agreements with end users, and key stakeholders in each location.
• Monitors supplier performance against milestones, informs relevant stakeholders about this performance and supports escalation of concerns if and when needed to Seniors within supplier.
• Enforces an ethical and sustainable supplier selection process considering key criteria to support business goals.
• Work with relevant internal stakeholder to create an annual budget planning preferred suppliers, timing, risk and resource.

Job description

BDR Thermea Group is seeking a Category Manager – Indirect Procurement to own end-to-end procurement for non-core spend across the group, including marketing, HR, consultancy and engineering services.

You will collaborate with site management teams and functional stakeholders to develop and implement supplier strategies, negotiate high-value contracts, and travel across the EU to visit plants and suppliers as needed.