Lead procurement team and develop strategic purchasing organization at HAWE Micro Fluid GmbH. Ensure supply security and optimize costs in a hybrid working environment.
About the role
- Category Manager overseeing strategic sourcing aligned with business growth in energy solutions. Driving supplier performance and cost management for Fluence’s innovations in energy storage.
Responsibilities
- Owns and maintains a multi‑year category strategy aligned with business growth, product roadmaps, and manufacturing plans
- Defines supply market structure, sourcing models, and regional strategy
- Anticipates cost, capacity, or technology inflection points and positions the category accordingly
- Leads sourcing for strategically critical programs, including NPIs and major ramps
- Owns RFx processes and supplier evaluations based on TCO, scalability, quality, risk, and capability
- Makes clear, data‑backed sourcing recommendations with documented trade‑offs
- Owns category cost targets and long‑range cost roadmaps
- Drives structural cost reduction through: should‑cost models supplier productivity initiatives design‑to‑cost and specification influence
- Acts as the internal authority on category cost drivers and benchmarks
- Leads high‑value and high‑complexity negotiations, including: long‑term agreements capacity or volume commitments indexation and risk‑sharing mechanisms
- Ensures contracts balance commercial advantage with long‑term supplier sustainability
- Owns executive‑level relationships with strategic suppliers
- Leads supplier governance (QBRs, scorecards, escalation)
- Drives supplier development priorities aligned with future business needs
- Serves as the category risk owner
- Proactively identifies and mitigates: geopolitical and supply concentration risks financial or operational supplier risks
- Develops and executes mitigation strategies (dual sourcing, localization, exit plans)
- Acts as a trusted advisor to Product, Engineering, Manufacturing, Finance, and Strategy teams
- Influences decisions beyond sourcing, including design choices and footprint strategy
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree with 8–12+ years of category or strategic sourcing experience or Master’s degree with 5–8+ years of progressive responsibility
- Strategic category management and global sourcing
- Contracting and complex commercial negotiations
- Cost modeling, TCO analysis, and financial acumen
- Supplier risk and performance management
- Executive-level written and verbal communication
- High degree of independence and accountability
- Comfort operating in international, cross-cultural environments
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Flexible working hours
- Professional development opportunities
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