Job Description
Join our team. The team consists of experienced sourcing and category professionals working across different European locations in close collaboration with engineering, operations, and other key stakeholders.
Your Mission
As a Global Category Manager, you will have end‑to‑end responsibility for strategic and tactical sourcing within key categories, primarily steel castings, forgings, and related hydraulics components. You will shape global category strategies that support business objectives, ensure supply continuity, and drive long‑term value creation. You will manage and develop a global supplier base, lead supplier selection, negotiations, and contract management, while continuously improving performance across cost, quality, delivery, risk and sustainability. You will actively drive cost and value initiatives such as design‑to‑cost, value engineering, localisation, and total cost of ownership optimisation, supported by market intelligence, spend analysis, an...