Purchasing Direct Materials Manager

At Henkel, you can build on a strong legacy and leading positions in both industrial and consumer businesses to reimagine and improve life every day. If you love challenging the status quo, join our community of 47.000 pioneers around the globe. The teams in our corporate functions enable the best in our dynamic businesses and in our people to maximize our company’s potential. With our leading brands, our cutting-edge technologies and our disruptive solutions, you will have countless opportunities to explore new paths and develop your skills. Grow within our future-led businesses, our diverse and vibrant culture and find a place where you simply belong. All to leave your mark for more sustainable growth.

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YOUR ROLE

• Steers and ensures supply continuity and manages all critical shortages and FM’s avoiding out of stocks and impact on NES according to defined KPIs. 
• Assess, identify, and support processes and tools to drive the digital framework for supply resilience to anticipate market developments and foster knowledge management. 
• Optimizes (together with SC) the end-to-end value chain demand-to-supply to improve supplier service and quality level, and raws/packs inventory.
• Manages together with the team all operational standard processes with the target to enable, secure, improve and verify supply.
• Manages Regional Sourcing Office Sub-Team and collaborates with the regional stakeholders (SC, CT, R&D).

YOUR SKILLS

• 5 years of commercial roles & supply chain background
• Cross-category knowledge in different materials-& logistics sourcing categories
• High level of digital skills to drive creative solutions embedded in digital framework 
• Operational excellence procurement troubleshooting purchasing BPO supplier quality

At Henkel, we come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We believe the uniqueness of all our employees is the power in us. Become part of the team and bring your uniqueness to us! We look for a diverse team of individuals who possess different backgrounds, experiences, personalities and mindsets.