Responsibilities Make an impact •    Depending on the size and the complexity of a main material group, the category expert will be responsible for 1 to the numbers of regional material groups •    For the responsible Category Spend, the regional category expert has the responsibility to:•    Define and roll-out Material Group sourcing strategy in close collaboration with relevant stakeholders•    Participates in relevant stakeholder meeting to align and present sourcing strategy•    Lead and conduct strategic sourcing projects•    Execute tactical sourcing events in respective e-procurement tool•    Lead and conduct negotiations•    Setup and implement product catalogues•    setup supplier segmentation and setup strategic supplier relationship mgmt. with relevant suppliers•    Supplier owner for suppliers within his/her category for the E2E lifecycle of a supplier•    E2E Sourcing responsibility from Product engineering until spare part handling•    Ensure supply resilience and mitigate any risk•    Collaboration and interaction with other Procurement teams:•    Project Purchasing-    During Sales phase (early involvement): to provide relevant pricing / price indication and to setup data base for first price indication / forecast, where feasible-    Ensure compliance with defined category framework (e.g. usage of strategic suppliers, usage of category standards), wherever feasible-    Support project teams with sourcing events, when requested-    support project teams with negotiations, when requested-    Operational Purchasing-    Ensure handover to operational purchasing for the PO process-    Close collaboration with operational purchasing to ensure an efficient and smoot E2E procurement process (e.g. for supplier onboarding, PO processing, setup of product catalogues)-    Global Process Owner & Digital solution team-    Seek for continuous improvement of processes & tools-    Support implementation of global processes, standards and tools ( Ariba)-    Actively contribute to define standards (e.g. pricing templates, contract templates)-    Applies global processes and standards as defined and applies digital tools as provided Application Requirements What you need to succeed •    Engineering degree or commercial degree with good technical knowledge•    Supply Chain Management experience in comparable industries and project oriented solutions:•    discrete manufacturing industries; not in process industries (chemical, pharma, nutrition); not in pure service companies (as e.g. banking, insurance)•    SAP R3 MM (Material Management) with focus on purchasing transactions and Procurement tool suites•    Minimal 5 years of experience in strategic/tactical purchasing, preferable also experienced in operational purchasing•    Knowledgeable in the Chinese and SEA supplier market for Racking, Installation, Conveyers, AMRs/AGVs