Job Summary

Category Manager EME ,India

Responsibilities

- Material and Supplier strategy
- Derive strategy and actions for managed categories based on internal stakeholder, business needs and market situation
- Develop a material and supplier strategy
- Conduct market / internal demand analysis and benchmarks
- Drive the strategy definition process with cross-functional partners
- Ensure that AUMOVIO requirements are reflected in the strategy
- Document and implement the strategy in all BAs/locations worldwide
- Conduct regular supplier evaluation with main stakeholders

- Stakeholder management

- Category Supplier Management
- Guide, support and train internal stakeholders to execute by using right tools, methods and processes
- Ensure the alignment and implementation of the category strategy within the organization (e.g., communicate sourcing market trends, category results)
- Ensure that suppliers fulfill the legal requirements by applying AUMOVIO processes, tools and templates
- Support escalations at internal and external stakeholder

- Achieve best market conditions
- Actively influence the sourcing process through:
- Supply market analysis / supplier selection
- Negotiation of prices and closure of contracts

- Sourcing decision
- Identify and lift bundling opportunities for own category

- Negotiation
- Drive annual negotiations to constantly improve the cost situation

- Negotiate with suppliers
- Apply negotiation concepts to actively support and execute bundling within the respective Category
- Negotiate non-conformance cost with suppliers
- Monitor and adapt existing demands,



volumes and/or service level agreements.

- Contract Management
- Ensure fulfillment of all necessary requirements by negotiating and concluding legally binding contracts (e.g. frame-, project related contracts, YPSA) with the respective suppliers and process audit-compliant documentation
- Ensure effective contract lifecycle management

- Data maintenance
- Ensure in time implementation of correct data in the respective IT-systems
- Monthly controlling and correction of local data and target achievement
- Project management/Continous Cost reduction
- Initiate and support value-engineering, re-design and cost reduction programs, make or buy decisions and content challenge
- Initiate and drive together with the internal stakeholders supplier improvement programs if needed (performance, costs), initiate the recent supplier introduction process

- Sustainability Risk managment
- Identify, assess, and mitigate supply chain and procurement risks with respect to geopolitical, geohazard, finacial or material risks
- Develop and implement risk mitigation strategies together with the involved stakeholders
- Ensure supply chain compliance with sustainability regulations, legal requirements and sustainability standards

Qualifications

- Bachleors / Master University degree in Engineering or relevant professional experience , with minimum 20 years of experience

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📌 Category Manager EME (Bengaluru)
🏢 Aumovio
📍 Bengaluru