Summary:

The Global Category Leader, Packaging, Capex and MRO (PCM) reports to the Global Head of Product Procurement and is accountable for a large range of plant enabling products and services items from a geographically dispersed supplier base. The category has a variable cost base (circa 250M+ Euros annual spend) and significant influence on Manufacturing capacity and capabilities. The role holder will partner closely with the RnD teams (Verticals) and manufacturing teams, especially Engineering as well as the technical Procurement Project Management Team to identify and source a range of materials, equipment and services that support the timely, quality and to cost target supply of produced items. The GCL will ensure OTIF capabilities with selected suppliers, meeting FMCs quality standards and to the cost targets agreed through personal delivery and that of a team of up to 10 globally dispersed category managers they lead.

Tasks:

Critical to FMC business, our reputation and our patients is the high quality and reliable supply of a range of products ranging from HD/PD machines through to consumables (Dialyzers, Bags, tubing systems) FMC produce and supply all around the world. The portfolio includes a legacy range which needs to be continually supported as new features are added or components swapped out and an exciting new range leveraging some of the best technology available from some of the leading companies is introduced.
As the GCL for PCM the role holder is accountable for the supply for BOM and non BOM items for use in our 40+ plants. They will lead a team of 5-10 category managers and between the holder and their team manage circa 250M € of global. To do this effectively they will partner closely with value streams and MTI, the supply chain function and the production plants ensuring the appropriate choice of suppliers and contracting/supply strategies are in place to meet the business needs. Given FMCs global footprint and the logistics costs involved in shipping large quantities of material there is a need to explore the best locations in the world to supply these items from to support the future manufacturing and supply footprint of Fresenius Medical Care. The holder of this role:

• Is a member of the Direct Procurement Leadership Team and reports to the Head of Direct Procurement
• Manages an annual and growing spend in the region of 250+M Euros
• Is based at or near to one of our locations in Ogden (USA), Shanghai (China), L’abresle (France) or St Wendel or Bad Homberg (Germany)
• Is fluent in English and ideally speaks German.
• Has a deep set of leading procurement experiences in the categories mentioned ranging from category management through strategic sourcing to supplier relationship management
• Has successfully operated in a global matrix environment
• Accepts end to end accountability for the satisfactory performance of first to last mile i.e., supplier selection to supplier delivery
• Has routinely applied automotive ways of procurement i.e., clean sheets, index based contracts, contracts with continual improvement clauses, DFC/DFM
• Manages a team of globally dispersed category managers, each with a similar remit as above albeit on a narrow scale.
• Partners closely with the following additional teams

-The Technical Procurement team who acts as the gateway of product moves, adds and changes

-The Supplier and Cost engineering team who work with suppliers to optimize their processes to reduce costs.

-The Procurement Operations team who manages the last mile of order placement and delivery/payment management at plant level

-The other category leaders to ensure an end-to-end design approach is being considered in our category approach

-The Procurement Centre of Excellence to access data and analytics, contract support, market intelligence and risk assessments.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Degree educated in a business, Science or Engineering degree. ideally member of professional procurement organisation e.g. CIPS, ISM etc. MBS highly beneficial
• Minimum 10 years in managerial positions within Procurement or Technical Project Management roles
• Globally experienced and ideally has lived and worked in more than one continent.
• Proven leadership (not just management) experience: Independently can create a compelling vision and can inspire a team / organization to deliver against this
• Compelling engagement, communication and presentation skills. Is comfortable engaging and influencing at C suite level.
• Excellent organization sills and able to deal comfortably with competing priorities.
• Agile and confident dealing with ambiguity, doesn’t need all the facts to proceed / make a decision.
• Outstanding coach of others
• Expert level application of leading procurement practices e.g. Category management, supplier relationship management, strategic sourcing. Is a highly competent practitioner and can coach others
• Outstanding project management skills
• Outstanding financial acumen – able to interpret P& L and balance sheets and independently create compelling business cases
• MS suite including: PPT, word, excel and ms project
• Solid skills with excel tools such as pivot tables
• Business Objects/tableau experience a plus
• English (Fluent), German (advanced level preferred)
• Flexible working hours need to cover global timezones
• Must be willing to travel up to 20% of their time