Global Commodity Manager - Indirect Material Advisory Services

A Snapshot of Your Day
As a Global Commodity Manager at Siemens Energy, you will play a pivotal role in developing and aligning a resilient ecosystem strategy for our mandated commodities, with a specific focus on HR Services such as talent acquisition, recruiting, training and payroll functions. Collaborating closely with key stakeholders, you will ensure our sourcing processes are both effective and efficient. We would love to hear from you, if you are authentic and curios, if you are eager to learn and if you come with a growth mindset fueling personal and professional development.
How You'll Make an Impact

• Strategic Leadership: Define and implement a comprehensive commodity and sourcing strategy with a specific focus on HR Services, including Talent Acquisition, Recruiting, Learning and Payroll.
• Value Creation: Partner with business stakeholders, transferring business needs to procurement solutions and influencing business stakeholders to incorporate sourcing strategies as part of decision-making processes
• Contract Expertise: Lead and own the preparation, negotiation, and awarding of global contracts for strategic and core suppliers, ensuring alignment with business and market requirements.
• Supplier Relationships: Build and maintain strong relationships with suppliers to meet Siemens Energy's demands and requirements.
• Risk Management: Identify procurement risks and opportunities, proactively addressing potential challenges and capitalizing on opportunities.
• Continuous Improvement: Drive ongoing improvement of managed spend and achieve identified savings within your area of responsibility.
• Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with internal stakeholders to jointly draft RFPs, define negotiation strategies, and execute them to achieve excellent negotiation results
• Vision and Leadership: Provide vision, strategy, and functional expertise to all SE stakeholders, acting as a role model of ownership, innovation, and change based on Siemens Energy's values and strategy.
• Team Development: Coordinate and manage a virtual cross-functional team to achieve optimal contract conditions and generate savings in sourcing & outsourcing projects
• Commodity Structure: Support in defining commodity structure and in collaboration with the Strategic Procurement organization and respective stakeholders.
• Ecosystem Strategy: Develop a forward-looking commodity ecosystem strategy to create additional value, based on business needs, in close alignment with business and commodity circles.
• Network Utilization: Utilize an enhanced Commodity Circle network to ensure the implementation of strategies.
• Supplier Involvement: Provide competitive advantage for the entire range of Siemens Energy businesses through early procurement/supplier involvement and cost-out activities.
• Market Analysis: Conduct supply/supplier market analysis, supplier scouting, and incorporate findings into the ecosystem strategy.
• Knowledge Sharing: Feedback supplier market information and knowledge to stakeholders within Siemens Energy through the network

What You Bring

• Educational Background: Bachelor's, Master's, or MBA degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Law, or a related field.
• Experience: Over 5 years of experience in procurement, ideally within a global organization, with a proven track record of success and, most importantly ??? a passion for negotiation and winning.
• Expertise: Strong commercial and technical understanding of procurement, project management, and international contract law.
• Leadership: Experience in functional leadership and project management, with at least 2 years of leading multinational teams and project teams.
• Skills: Effective negotiation and conflict resolution skills, with the ability to work in multicultural teams and communicate with senior stakeholders.
• Language Proficiency: Proficient in English (written and spoken); German is a plus.
• Flexibility: Availability to work from the Siemens Energy office 2-3 days per week.
• Strategic thinkers with a passion for procurement and supply chain management.
• Strong negotiators with a proven track record of building and maintaining supplier relationships.
• Innovators who can identify and capitalize on opportunities for improvement and value creation.
• Team players who thrive in a collaborative, global environment

About the Team

We are a dynamic and diverse team in an international environment, which will stretch and develop your abilities and channel your skills and expertise with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most desired energy companies in the world.

Join our mission for sustainability and clean energy for generations to come. Our diverse team shares a passion for renewable energy and fosters a culture of trust and empowerment, encouraging innovative ideas and personal growth.

Who is Siemens Energy?
At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.
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.
Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo
Our Office
Siemens Energy's location in One Cotroceni Park is more than just an office space - it's a hub for a vibrant and thriving community. Nestled in the heart of Bucharest, this urban development is the perfect place to work, surrounded by green spaces, shopping destinations, and everything the city center has to offer. And with the Academia Militara subway station just a 3-minute walk away, getting around the city has never been easier.
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.
Rewards/Benefits

• Your lunch with SE meal tickets.
• Keep your brain fit with our trainings.
• Special for books lovers ??? Bookstore.
• Stay safe and healthy with our medical subscription.
• Think about your future too with Privat Pension Pilon III.
• Take care of yourself with our Wellbeing Initiatives.

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