Role: Global Procurement & Data Category Specialist
Location: Dortmund, Germany - 2 days per week work from home (the role could also be based in Germany if preferred)

Travel: Up to 20% European travel, mostly 1-2 day trips
Salary: €competitive + bonus & Package

**German speakers highly preferred**

Excellent opportunity to join a brilliant manufacturing company with a Multi-€bn turnover that's experiencing rapid company growth. As such, this role offers the successful procurement candidate significant career progression opportunities. Excellent company culture.

Perfect role for a procurement professional with at least 2 years of relevant experience.

This position offers both strategic end-to-end procurement, alongside data extraction, transformation, enrichment, and analytics!

Stimulating international scope, you'll act as a liaison between internal and external stakeholders, both within the core company and the satellite OpCo's.

Responsibilities:

• Developing performance and support analytics for procurement programs and projects at European level
• Extract, transform and analyze data from multiple sources to support Category/Product Management (CM), Sourcing, Fact Based Negotiations, pricing and assortment-related initiatives
• Maintain and support implementation, as well as acting as Super User, Procurement support tools
• Support Group Category Managers and Operational Companies (OpCo's) with, but not limited to, analytical capabilities for developing initiative improvements, adjusted gross margin, execute fact-based negotiations
• Run smaller procurement and sourcing projects on behalf of the Group Category Managers
• Manage the ESG agenda in the different categories
• Perform Due Diligence on possible acquisition targets

Requirements:

• 2 years of relevant procurement experience upwards
• Highly proficient in with MS Excel including VBA, reference formulae and PivotTables, and PowerPoint
• Working knowledge of SQL and other querying tools such as Oracle, MS Access, and others
• Proven analytical skills, including statistics tools to structure, develop and interpret models Stable track record with clear career progression within a limited number of employers
• Experience with working in an international and matrix environment
• Fluent in English - additional German, Dutch or French a bonus