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Category Manager – Indirect Materials Energy & Utilities

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Location: Steinhausen (Switzerland) Reporting Line: Head of Category Management Indirect Materials

Role Summary

As a Category Manager Indirect Materials & Services, you will be responsible for the global strategic management of the indirect spend categories “Energy & Utilities” across the Zeppelin Group. You will lead sourcing strategies, supplier management, contract negotiations, and cost optimization initiatives while collaborating closely with stakeholders and suppliers worldwide. The role ensures procurement activities support business requirements and long-term corporate objectives.

YOUR TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Establishing, maintaining, and managing supplier relationships to ensure competitive terms and a stable supply chain
  • Developing and implementing sustainable category strategies to optimize the quality, cost structure, and availability of materials and services
  • Conducting comprehensive market analyses to identify potential suppliers and technologies
  • Redesigning and implementing strategic supplier management
  • Designing and implementing forecasting systems for suppliers based on S&OP processes
  • Preparing requests for proposals, conducting bid comparisons, and leading price and terms negotiations, including preparing corresponding framework agreements to leverage economies of scale
  • Drafting and negotiating contracts, confidently handling contract law and correspondence with attorneys
  • Establishing targeted sourcing specifications for materials and services and developing KPI-based risk management for the assigned category
  • Coordinating interfaces between Operational Procurement, Master Data & Operations Planning, Product Management, Engineering, Logistics, Quality Management, and Finance & Controlling

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

  • A degree (Bachelor’s or Master’s) in Business, Engineering, Economics or equivalent qualification
  • 5+ years of experience in strategic or project-specific procurement
  • Strong negotiation skills, analytical abilities, and expertise in cost and risk management
  • A strong service-oriented mindset and an awareness of working as a strategic procurement professional in a highly cross-functional organization
  • Understanding technical requirements, project workflows, and agile working methods, as well as knowledge of contract law and negotiation skills
  • Resilience, initiative, and the ability to take on responsibility in a dynamic and global environment
  • Fluency in English and German, knowledge of further languages is a plus
  • Willingness to travel

Why Join Zeppelin Procurement?

We are creating a procurement organization that moves beyond transactional purchasing, becomes a strategic business partner delivering measurable competitive advantage and generates measurable value and impact to our business. If you want to shape the strategic direction for indirect category management and drive lasting value creation across an international organization, we would like to hear from you.

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