Job Details
- Contract Type:
- Unlimited / Full-Time
- Country / City:
- Croatia / Zagreb
- Company:
- Beiersdorf d.o.o.
- Job Function:
- Supply Chain Management
Your Tasks
Category Management and Strategic Sourcing:
- Responsible for end-to-end procurement activities for assigned categories, ensuring alignment with global, regional and local procurement teams
- Leading strategic sourcing initiatives, including market analysis, supplier identification, RFx processes, commercial evaluations, negotiations and contract implementation
- Developing, implementing and continuously improving category strategies to deliver sustainable value, cost optimization and risk mitigation
Stakeholder Management and Business Partnering:
- Acting as a trusted business partner for internal stakeholders by providing procurement expertise, market intelligence and sourcing recommendations
- Managing procurement requests and resolving procurement-related operational issues
- Driving savings initiatives, value engineering and demand management opportunities across assigned categories
Supplier Management and Negotiations:
- Negotiating commercial terms and conditions with local and regional suppliers, including pricing, TCO, payment terms, service levels and contractual conditions
- Managing supplier relationships and supplier performance, including regular business reviews, performance improvement initiatives and risk management
Projects, Regional/Global Initiatives and Process Improvement:
- Leading cross-functional procurement projects and supporting regional and global procurement initiatives
- Actively participating in regional and global procurement projects by providing expertise in sourcing, negotiations, supplier management and category strategy
- Supporting procurement transformation, process optimization and implementation of procurement best practices
- Providing guidance and knowledge sharing to other procurement colleagues and supporting their professional development
Governance, Compliance and Procurement Operations:
- Ensuring compliance with global procurement policies, internal controls and company governance standards
- Approving purchase requests through SRM in accordance with procurement rules
- Entering purchase requests into SAP in accordance with procurement rules where required
- Executing procurement requests in accordance with procurement rules
- Maintaining procurement-related master data and submitting requests for supplier master data creation, modification and deletion in accordance with company policies
- Collecting and analyzing procurement data, preparing procurement documentation, monitoring procurement performance and supporting reporting activities
Your Profile
Required Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
- University degree (Business Administration, Economics, Supply Chain Management or related field preferred)
- Minimum 3 years of experience in procurement, strategic sourcing or category management
- Proven experience leading supplier negotiations and managing strategic supplier relationships
- Experience managing sourcing projects independently
- Strong commercial acumen with solid analytical and financial evaluation skills (including TCO analysis)
- English language proficiency
- Advanced computer proficiency, particularly Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
- Experience working with SAP and procurement systems (e.g. SRM, Ariba or equivalent)
Required Competencies:
- Good negotiation, influencing and stakeholder management skills
- Strong strategic thinking and business partnering capabilities
- High level of ownership, accountability and result orientation
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong project management and organizational skills
- Ability to work independently while effectively collaborating within cross-functional teams
- High professional ethics and integrity
- Good communication and presentation skills
- Continuous improvement mindset
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment
