Procurement Excellence Manager (m/f/d)

We are ALTANA: one group of companies – four divisions: BYK, ECKART, ELANTAS, and ACTEGA. A global leader in specialty chemicals and with myriad opportunities for you to develop and grow. Enrich your life with this decisive plus!

Employee Procurement Excellence (m/f/d)
Location: Wesel near Düsseldorf

Responsibilities

Exciting opportunities await you – as Employee Procurement Excellence, you will organize the ALTANA-wide cross-divisional target-setting process, implement the ALTANA-wide KPI development and reporting of performance measurement and controlling, and manage and support cross-divisional value creation programs with a stronger focus on supplier management, all within procurement. Your further tasks and duties include:

• Realizing cross-functional workshops for developing alternative suppliers, optimizing supplier structures, improving supplier performance and enhancing supplier resilience as well as risk mitigation strategies
• Advancing systems for tracking the execution of procurement measures, including supplier regulatory compliance and supplier performance
• Establishing supplier risk monitoring in the areas of sustainability, compliance, financial stability, supply chain disruption, and geopolitical risks
• Evolving and installing ALTANA-wide supplier management processes in the department (scouting, onboarding, qualification, development, performance, etc.) with a special focus on regulatory frameworks (e.g., CS3D, LkSG) and supply chain due diligence
• Conceiving and organizing procurement conferences, particularly on topics such as regulatory changes, risk management, and supplier performance

Requirements

With this profile, you convince us – if you possess a degree in economics, engineering, chemistry, or comparable professional training and bring extensive experience in procurement in a manufacturing company – ideally in the chemical industry –, in projects in procurement and supply chain in a consulting company, or in international supplier and risk management, we warmly invite you to apply. Your further skills and competencies include:

• Familiarity with supplier development and qualification procedures
• Excellent organizational awareness and a service and stakeholder orientation
• Strong process understanding and the ability to implement compliance and risk measures in procurement
• Compelling communication skills at different hierarchical levels
• A good understanding of compliance-driven procurement and risk management as well as procurement-related regulatory frameworks (e.g., CS3D, LkSG, ESG risk criteria) is a plus
• Dexterity in SAP and SRM tools (Coupa, Ivalua, Jaggaer, SAP Ariba, etc.) is advantageous

Our Plus

You can count on ALTANA – by joining the ALTANA Group, you will be working in an organization with a unique culture of innovation which encourages individual ideas and talent and promotes open, trusted collaboration. In detail: Look forward to a position in a stable company that is excellently positioned for the future. You will also enjoy …

• A comfortable working environment where everyone knows each other personally and exchanges views, as well as short information and decision-making paths
• An excellent environment for implementing your ideas paired with constructive openness to new developments and other ways of thinking
• Modern pension schemes
• Flexible working hours with options to work partially remotely
• Very attractive development opportunities in a globally active and growing group of companies

About us

Some 100 people work at ALTANA AG’s headquarters in Wesel near Düsseldorf. The Strategic Management Holding Company comprises the Executive Board as well as the following departments: Innovation, Finance, Controlling, Legal / Compliance, Corporate Communications, Corporate Development, Internal Audit and Human Resources.

We invite you to get to know us better and to become part of our team. Discover your career plus in specialty chemistry. Please send us your application, preferably via our jobmarket .

ALTANA AG | Petra Heinrichs | HR | Tel. +49 281 670-26002

ALTANA AG and its subsidiaries is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability.

Job number: #1312
Legal entity: ALTANA AG
Location: Wesel near Düsseldorf