Regional Commodity Manager

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A snapshot of your day
Discover a great opportunity at Siemens Energy, where we champion productivity, quality, and digital innovation to redefine clean energy solutions. As a seasoned Procurement professional, you'll lead critical initiatives and orchestrate negotiations to secure optimal contracts. Your role involves cultivating robust supplier relationships, analyzing market dynamics, and driving cost-saving measures. Collaborating closely with internal customers, you'll ensure alignment with evolving needs while spearheading performance enhancements. Join our diverse team and shape the future of sustainable procurement in the energy sector.
How you'll make an impact

• Plan negotiations, define awarding strategy and prepare sourcing board approvals, respecting the suppliers defined by the commodity strategy, to enable pooling potential
• Negotiate local, regional, or multi-site contracts in conjunction with relevant procurement managers, or independently. This includes negotiating prices, delivery schedules, and payment terms, among other specifics.
• Contribute to EcoSystem commodity strategy, and develop a business listing of preferred suppliers
• Manage the relationship with assigned suppliers (in alignment with CM/GCM when applicable)
• Support and maintain supplier segmentation of the relevant supply base via actively representing the Customer view in Commodity Circles
• Analyse local and regional market trends and their utilization in commodity strategy
• Identify customer requirements and supports the execution process, providing input into the sourcing process.
• Monitor supplier performance and inform relevant customers about this performance
• Generates, documents and implement savings measures; monitor and reports relevant KPIs.
• Drive early procurement / supplier involvement and cost-out activities.
• Identify procurement risks and opportunities and implement respective measures
• Identify potential contractual items and liaises (if relevant) with the strategic commodity management to ensure such items are added to existing contracts or appropriate contracts are established
• Educate business unit stakeholders of preferred strategies, suppliers and behaviours to drive optimal performance and compliance with preferred corporates strategies

What you bring

• Experience working in a complex, constantly evolving global organisational environment.
• 5+ years of experience in strategic sourcing
• Experience with indirect procurement and contract management
• Outstanding communication, presentation, and customer management skills.
• Excellent commercial, contractual, and project management competence.
• Knowledge of working with a global commodity management community.
• Experience in mobility services (Travel and Fleet) and temporary labour would be ideal

About the team
At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. We meet the growing energy demand across 90+ countries while ensuring our climate is protected. With more than 92,000 dedicated employees, we not only generate electricity for over 16% of the global community, but we're also using our technology to help protect people and the environment.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

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Our commitment to diversity
Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power! We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character - no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences!
Rewards/benefits

• Siemens-Energy offers a comprehensive reward package which includes a competitive basic salary, generous holiday allowance and class leading pension scheme.
• Through our flexible benefits scheme you can select benefits that best suit your lifestyle, including private healthcare.