Responsibilities:

• Management of own material categories together with the functional category team (capacity, knowledge management, performance)                                                        
• Accountable for contributing to the global Direct Material & Supply Base Performance (QCD)                             
• Representing own direct material categories within the VAT organization                                                  
• Accountable for the category specific achievement of the objectives of cost optimization, supply base optimization, geographic sourcing footprint and Best Cost Country Sourcing                                             
• Providing forward-looking guidance on trends, threats and opportunities in own categories (eg. raw materials etc.)                              
• Active contribution to the bottom up alignment of the Direct Materials Category Team with the defined / set company objectives                                                    
• Interface to BU / Engineering for Strategic Sourcing activities along with the PDP (IP07) process                                      
• Act as a change agent in regards to main stakeholders.
• Perform the development of category sourcing strategies applying and complying with defined methods and tools
• Active supplier relationship management of the global supply base within its own category perimeter in alignment with the category teams in Switzerland, Malaysia and Romania
• Ensure consistent application of all Sourcing Levers.
• Contribution to main Sourcing KPIs
• Assembles and actively leads category specific / cross-functional sourcing board.
• Actively monitors and performs a supply base risk assessment across its own categories
• Participates in and contributes to continuous improvement of direct material practices

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