A Snapshot of Your Day

As Regional Commodity Manager for Logistics Europe you are working within a day across all lifecycle stages of commercial opportunities. By analyzing spend and contract data, you identify commercial opportunities to drive Siemens Energy forward. With your creative und pragmatic ideas you can develop plans to exploit these commercial opportunities. Your collaborative way-of-working while developing these plans with cross-functional experts makes you a valued member of our team. Furthermore, you have the ability to negotiate your plans with suppliers and get your targets through. Additionally, you have a good feeling for business and stakeholder needs to satisfy their demands.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Drive commodity strategy development including regional inputs such as analysis of customer needs, local supplier market, spend analysis
• Adopting and implementing global commodity strategy to local needs and requirements
• Managing suppliers at regional / country level
• Negotiating favorable contract & commercial terms and conditions for existing & new frame agreements and revealing commercial opportunities
• Managing efficiently the procurement processes (e.g., demand planning, conducting market analyses, invitations to RfX, supplier scouting/selection/developing, negotiating & awarding)
• Collaborating with cross-functional colleagues (operations, finance, Cyber Security, infosec, etc.) to ensure all category sourcing activities are aligned to a common set of goals and priorities and build strong relationship with key stakeholders to ensure alignment procurement objectives and business needs

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, logistics, law or equivalent and >10 years of work experience
• At least 5 years procurement management expertise as a commodity manager in logistics
• Excessive experience in developing commodity strategies for LTL & FTL in North America and contracting within a large corporate environment. Additional expertise in warehousing and project logistics is beneficial
• Outstanding analytical and commercial skills, combined with effective negotiation and conflict management skills as well as fluent English language skills
• Good portion of self-confidence, strong communication skills and social aptitude

About the Team

In our Business Functions we enable our organization to reach their targets by providing best-in class services and solutions in the areas of Logistics, Procurement, IT, HR, Finance, Real Estate, Strategy & Technology and more.

Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo

Who is Siemens Energy?

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 100,000 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.

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.

Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo

Rewards/Benefits

• Working with a global team
• Opportunities to work on and lead a variety of innovative projects
• Possibility to take over further tasks within the company
• Supportive work culture
• Hybrid work model (3 days at the office)

We value equal opportunities and welcome applications from people with disabilities.

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