(Senior) Procurement Operations and Deployment Specialist

Job Description

At Fresenius Medical Care, we are the global leader in kidney care, committed to improving the lives of patients with chronic kidney disease. Our mission is to deliver high-quality, innovative products, services, and care across the entire healthcare journey. Guided by our vision—“Creating a future worth living. For patients. Worldwide. Every day.”—we work with purpose and compassion, supported by a global team of over 110,000 employees.

As a part of Global Functions, our Procurement Department is driving transformation through our FME Reignite strategy, which focuses on innovation, efficiency, and sustainable growth. Our values are the foundation of our culture:

• We Care for our patients, each other, and our communities.

• We Connect across teams and borders to deliver excellence together.

• We Commit to doing things the right way—growing with purpose and leading kidney care with integrity and innovation.

As the (Senior) Procurement Operations and Deployment Specialist, you will be responsible for ensuring procurement services are successfully delivered to the organization according to agreed service levels, collaboration model and following the company Policies and Procedures. This role ensures business continuity, and safeguards governance, alignment, and timely escalation management.

Your tasks:

• Support the development and execution of country/MSC Procurement plans, sourcing initiatives, and category strategies.
• Ensure Procurement governance, compliance, contracting, approvals, and policy adherence in line with global standards.
• Act as the key Procurement Business Partner for country/MSC leadership and represent Procurement in leadership and governance forums.
• Align Procurement activities with business priorities, financial planning processes, and changing operational needs.
• Monitor end-to-end Procurement processes and address performance, governance, or service delivery gaps.
• Identify spend optimization opportunities, supplier risks, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Manage supplier relationships, business reviews, audits, and support sourcing and negotiation activities where required.
• Drive the deployment and adoption of global/regional contracts, Procurement tools, and process changes.
• Lead Procurement projects, manage escalations, and coordinate issue resolution across business, GBS, Sourcing Hub, and Category teams.
• Monitor KPIs, risks, and operational performance, while ensuring best practices and lessons learned are documented and shared.

Your profile:

• 10+ years of Procurement experience, including purchasing, category management, and contract lifecycle management.
• 5+ years of experience in a multinational and global business environment.
• Strong expertise in procurement operating models, governance, policies, and end-to-end procurement processes.
• Proven project management and continuous improvement experience, with the ability to lead initiatives from planning through implementation.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, with a data-driven and results-oriented approach.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, presentation, and influencing skills, with the ability to build effective relationships across functions and levels.
• Highly organized, adaptable, and resilient, with the ability to prioritize competing demands and drive change.
• Sound financial and performance management knowledge, including budgeting, KPI tracking, and performance measurement.
• Advanced proficiency in procurement technologies and systems, including SAP, SAP Ariba, Power BI, e-sourcing and contract management tools, as well as Microsoft Office applications.
• Fluent English (German would be an asset), with willingness to travel up to 10% and work flexibly across global time zones in a hybrid work environment.

Our Offer For You:

There is a lot you can discover at Fresenius Medical Care, regardless in which field you are an expert and how much experience you have - all dedicated to your professional journey.

• Whether in front of or behind the scenes - you are helping to make ever better medicine available to more and more people around the world
• Individual opportunities for self-determined career planning and professional development
• A corporate culture in which there is enough room for innovative thinking - to find the best solution together, not the quickest one
• A large number of committed people with a wide range of skills, talents and experience
• The benefits of a successful global corporation with the collegial culture of a medium-sized company