Category Buyer (W/M/D)

The Categoy Buyer will: Lead, develop and implement global commodity strategy for assigned spend categories. Analyse spends in assigned spend categories. Monitor the market through constant benchmarking to continuously improve costs, quality, delivery, and technology. Help to define the annual savings forecast, identifying risks and opportunities. Implement the saving action plan to achieve the assigned annual cost saving target. Promote and lead cost reduction activities and alternative products/ solutions, towards internal stakeholder and Suppliers. Manage Supplier Relationship at global level, monitoring trend of KPIs and setting necessary corrective actions. Negotiate long-term contracts with Suppliers, at global level, that set out prices, quality standards, cost reduction. improvement along agreement duration, delivery times, and commercial terms and conditions. Communicate effectively and manage relationships with relevant internal stakeholders, to contribute to the cross-functional projects. Ensure compliance with the sourcing processes. Enter relevant sourcing data in local ERP system for new product codes and pricelist updates.