About the Role
Location
Germany
Bayern
Erlangen
- Country: GERMANY
- State/Province/County: Berlin
- City: Berlin
- Country: GERMANY
- State/Province/County: Nordrhein-Westfalen
- City: Muelheim an der Ruhr
- Country: GERMANY
- State/Province/County: Nordrhein-Westfalen
- City: Duisburg
Company
Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
Organization
EVP Global Functions
Business Unit
Strategic Procurement
Full / Part time
Full-time
Experience Level
Experienced Professional
A Snapshot of Your Day
As a Corporate Commodity Manager (f/m/d) for 3rd Party Packaging, you drive the global commodity strategy for auxiliary packaging solutions such as Oil & Gas skids, base frames, piping assemblies, cabling, and valve-integrated packages.
You align with regional procurement teams and business units to ensure supplier performance, capacity availability, and cost competitiveness. Based on market intelligence and cost analysis, you continuously refine sourcing strategies and evaluate make-or-buy decisions.
Throughout the day, you negotiate with international contract packagers, resolve escalations, and mitigate supply chain risks. In close collaboration with Engineering, R&D, Cost-Value Engineering, and Supplier Quality, you balance technical requirements, standardization initiatives, and commercial objectives.
You act as the global interface between internal stakeholders and external partners ensuring resilience, competitiveness, and long-term value creation.
How You’ll Make an Impact
- Lead and execute the global commodity strategy for 3rd party packaging across all business units.
- Analyze market dynamics, cost structures, and supplier landscapes to drive data-based sourcing decisions.
- Develop Supply Chain concepts and realize cost optimization.
- Drive make-or-buy decisions and global packaging standardization initiatives.
- Lead and negotiate complex commercial agreements, including pricing, capacity commitments, and framework contracts.
- Develop and govern long-term strategic supplier partnerships, performance reviews, and contract management processes.
What You Bring
- Master’s degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Packaging Technology, or a related field.
- Longstanding experience in strategic procurement of direct materials or in operations, ideally in Energy, Oil & Gas, or Process Industry; packaging experience strongly preferred.
- Proven track record in complex negotiations and contract management at international level.
- Strong commercial acumen combined with excellent conceptual understanding of Supply Chains and structured problem-solving skills.
- Demonstrated stakeholder management capabilities across functions and regions in matrix organizations.
- Fluent in English; German and additional languages are a plus.
About the Team
In our Business Functions we enable our organization to reach their targets by providing best-inclass services and solutions in the areas of IT, HR, Finance, Real Estate, Strategy & Technology and more.
Who is Siemens Energy?
At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100.000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.
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.
Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo
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
- In addition to an attractive remuneration package in line with the market, you can expect an attractive employer-financed company pension scheme
- We also offer the opportunity to become a Siemens Energy shareholder
- We offer our employees the opportunity to work flexibly and remotely, and our inspiring offices provide space for collaboration and creativity
- The professional and personal development of our employees is very important to us. We provide them with the opportunities to learn and develop in a self-determined way, various attractive programmes and learning materials are available for this purpose
- In relation to the "compatibility of family and work", we have a wide range of offers, e.g. flexible working time models, childcare places at many locations, the possibility of trial part-time work or even a sabbatical
We value equal opportunities and welcome applications from people with disabilities.
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