Indirect Materials & Services Purchasing Manager

At Henkel, you can build on a strong legacy and leading positions in both industrial and consumer businesses to reimagine and improve life every day. If you love challenging the status quo, join our community of 47.000 pioneers around the globe. The teams in our corporate functions enable the best in our dynamic businesses and in our people to maximize our company’s potential. With our leading brands, our cutting-edge technologies and our disruptive solutions, you will have countless opportunities to explore new paths and develop your skills. Grow within our future-led businesses, our diverse and vibrant culture and find a place where you simply belong. All to leave your mark for more sustainable growth.

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YOUR ROLE

• Manages, executes & implements sourcing projects at local/regional level in changing category teams / countries and based on priorities defined by regional sourcing project manager
• Ensures consistent usage of digital tools and processes for all executed projects.
• Guarantees full documentation, traceability, and compliance for all sourcing events.
• Actively onboards to sourcing projects by utilizing self-learning resources such as the CT Factbook and Basket Playbook to familiarize with unfamiliar category teams / Baskets.
• Executes non-sourcing related projects, tasks, or topics in the regions (e.g., Sustainability, German Supply Chain Act, corporate projects, etc.).
• Ensures full documentation, traceability, and compliance within IMEA for all executed sourcing events.
• Coordinates best practice projects (e-tenders & e-sourcing) by collecting Requests for Information (RFI) and Requests for Proposal (RFP), consolidating spend across different categories, and evaluating them based on specific criteria.
• Decides on the financial terms and conditions to be applied to awarded suppliers (e.g., payment terms, penalties, price lists, total cost, etc.).
• Arranges internal and external meetings, primarily focusing on savings projects.
• Supports compliance and digitalization processes, including contract management. 

YOUR SKILLS

• Bachelor's Degree in a related field. 
• 4-6 years of experience in related positions, particularly in Marketing, HR, Technical Supply ,Fleet Management and service agreements.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English with the ability to interact effectively with all levels of management 
• Excellent command of MS Office programs.
• SAP Knowledge is a plus
• Excellent negotiation skills and conflict-management capabilities

At Henkel, we come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We believe the uniqueness of all our employees is the power in us. Become part of the team and bring your uniqueness to us! We look for a diverse team of individuals who possess different backgrounds, experiences, personalities and mindsets.