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Global Category Manager - Business Travel

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Job Objective:

The Global Category Manager is responsible for executing procurement strategies with 3rd party suppliers in support of Fresenius Medical Care’s One Procurement strategy. Responsible for category management, strategic sourcing, supplier negotiations, contracting, and ongoing supplier management for assigned category. Coordinates with Procurement Partner(s) and key stakeholders to ensure alignment of procurement strategies.

The Global Category Manager leads the category management strategy globally in alignment with four procurement pillarsProcurement Partnering, Global Category Management, Center of Expertise and Procurement Operations.  Responsible to build strong relationships with suppliers and internal stakeholders and ensures that category strategies cross-functionally are aligned. Owns strategy, analytics, and communications for executive-level projects related to respective category.

Main Activities

  • Drive, develop, and implement multi-year category plans for the Travel category, including demand aggregation, definition of buying channels, strategic relationship management, and supplier risk management.
  • Supports the development of overall FME Global Travel strategy and their transformation programme cornerstones - including Travel Policy, Operations supply and Safety/Sustainability.
  • Maintains knowledge of current trends, supplier capabilities, innovation, and changes within the technology and supplier landscape
  • Identify, develop and lead/support opportunities to optimize spend, reduce costs, mitigate supply risks, improve services, bring innovation and assure supply.
  • Leads or supports cross functional supplier selection activities and management of formal strategic sourcing and RFx processes.
  • Performs proposal analysis, including price analyses, “Should Cost” modelling, benchmarking and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
  • Develops negotiation strategy, including targets for costs and key commercial/business terms.
  • Working in conjunction with Legal, drafts and negotiates key legal and commercial terms.
  • Evaluates financial stability of suppliers and manages supplier risks as needed.
  • Actively manages key supplier relationships including resolution of issues and disputes.
  • Build relationships and work closely with cross-functional stakeholder groups, other Procurement Business Partner(s), other Category Managers, and cross-functional teams to share and implement procurement strategies.
  • Develops and leads Supplier Performance Management framework for key suppliers and leads in supplier business reviews.
  • Champions use of eSourcing, Spend Visibility, and R2P tools within category; leverages and utilizes eAuctions where appropriate.
  • Acts as an ambassador of Procurement and a champion in the function for all Procurement policies, processes and tools to ensure compliance.
  • Demonstrates the highest ethical standards and ensures Fresenius procedures are adopted and followed.
  • Drives the category management process to develop strategies that include diversity, sustainability, risk assessment, currency, and overall continuity, in alignment with business KPIs.

Required Qualification, Experience and Critical Skills

  • Bachelor’s Degree in either Technical or Business field
  • MBA and/or CPSM/CPM desired
  • Strong Managership and effective business partnering capabilities – influence without authority.
  • Requires ability to deal with ambiguity and the corresponding capacity to make decisions or recommendations based on potentially incomplete information.
  • Experience with hands on analysis and data interpretation; proficiency in Microsoft Office Suites required.
  • Strong negotiation, communication, and presentation skills
  • Robust knowledge of the strategic sourcing and category management process
  • International experience essential – working experience in different countries/regions/languages.
  • English (written and spoken) - Fluent
  • 5+ years of travel procurement, contract negotiation and management experience.
  • 5+ years of experience with the latest procurement and contract management solutions
  • 5+ years of direct industry or company experience
  • 5+ years working in a multi-national, multi-cultural environment
Career with a purpose

Career with a purpose

We offer an opportunity to create and deliver treatments that save and change lives for the better. We’ll support your ongoing development. And you’ll be part of a dedicated team of people who inspire each other to create the best possible healthcare outcomes each and every day.
Inclusion and diversity

Inclusion and diversity

Joining Fresenius Medical Care means becoming part of a team that values diversity. We embrace the wealth of different backgrounds, cultures, experiences and opinions that make up our workforce and strive to create an inclusive atmosphere in which all our employees feel valued.
Stability

Stability

Developing innovative products and continuously improving our renal therapies made us the clear market leader in the production of hemodialysis machines, with sustainable, profitable growth . This position provides our 125000 employees with the stability and security they need to help improve the lives of our patients.
Learning and development

Learning and development

We offer participation in programs at world-class business schools, leadership development, regular training for our nurses, health care professionals and manufacturing staff and digital access to high-quality educational content for all employees worldwide 24/7. 
Local benefits

Local benefits

Our employees enjoy both local and global opportunities for growth and personal fulfilment. We offer local benefits designed to suit the requirements of the respective country and place of work to create ideal conditions everywhere.
Work-life balance

Work-life balance

We want to empower people to deliver better care. Therefore, we promote a better work-life balance through flexible working hours, part-time models, the possibility to work from home, and more.
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At a glance

Earliest possible start:

01/01/2025

Contract type:

Permanent position

Company:

Fresenius Medical Care

Region / Business Unit:

Global Departments

Location:

Oberdorf (CHE)

Working condition:

Full time

Job Function:

Purchasing, Supply Chain & Logistics

Reference number:

R0177508

Publishing date:

10/24/2024

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Everything we do here is about making people’s lives better, simpler and longer. Our teams work cross-functionally to reproduce the complex function of kidneys with treatments that meet high quality standards, improve clinical outcomes, and are sustainable and compliant. Internally, we promote diversity and inclusion as key elements of a positive, supportive work environment. Our values support our mission to develop high quality products and services, to have a positive impact on the health and wellbeing of patients, and to lead Fresenius Medical Care towards a successful, sustainable future.