Category Manager Indirect Procurement - MRO & Plant CAPEX
Descrizione dell'offerta
Within the Villeroy & Boch Group, the Category Manager Indirect Procurement – MRO & Plant CAPEX is a value-driven, change-oriented role responsible for challenging established procurement and maintenance practices and introducing new sourcing models, technical alternatives, and innovative commercial approaches across MRO and plant-related CAPEX. The role goes beyond traditional negotiations and leverages data, analytics, and systems to identify savings opportunities, improve transparency, and support fact-based decision-making across the Group's manufacturing footprint.
Key Responsibilities
- Innovation-Led Category Strategy
- Design and deploy forward-looking category strategies for MRO and plant CAPEX.
- Execute RFI, RFP, and RFQ processes and lead negotiations to completion.
- Reassess OEM vs. alternative sourcing models using TCO and lifecycle data.
- Reduce complexity in spare-parts portfolios through cross-site harmonization.
- Drive initiatives to lower inventory, emergency spend, and unplanned CAPEX.
- Advanced Sourcing & Value Creation
- Lead innovative sourcing initiatives, including re-specification, bundling, and long-term agreements.
- Build and maintain should-cost and clean-sheet models
- Translate technical and commercial changes into measurable savings (OPEX & CAPEX).
- Track, validate, and sustain savings through robust data management.
- Data, Systems & Insight (Excel & SAP)
- Use advanced Excel to analyze spend, build financial models, and simulate sourcing scenarios (e.g. pivot tables, advanced formulas, scenario modeling, dashboards).
- Extract, structure, and analyze data from SAP (MM, SRM / Coupa, or equivalent) to support category decisions.
- Ensure data accuracy, transparency, and traceability for savings and compliance.
- Support continuous improvement of reporting, catalogs, and master data.
- Plant-Level Engagement & Change Enablement
- Partner with Maintenance and Engineering teams to challenge "business as usual".
- Support plants with data-driven recommendations during critical situations.
- Drive adoption of new sourcing models through facts, credibility, and pragmatism.
- Governance & Scalability
- Embed innovative category approaches into contracts, catalogs, and SAP workflows.
- Ensure savings sustainability through compliance, KPIs, and reporting discipline.
- Contribute to procurement digitalization and transformation initiatives.
Profile & Capabilities
- Experience
- Strong background in indirect procurement with deep exposure to MRO and plant CAPEX.
- Proven ability to generate savings by changing sourcing logic and using data effectively.
- Experience working in SAP-based procurement environments.
- Key Skills
- Minimum 3 years experience as Category Manager in a Multinational Company.
- Strong negotiation and influencing skills, with the ability to balance commercial rigor and operational needs.
- Advanced Excel proficiency.
- SAP proficiency– MM and procurement-related modules.
- Strong analytical and financial modeling skills.
- Ability to influence technical stakeholders using data and insight.
- Structured, curious, and improvement-oriented mindset
- Fluent English (C1 level) required; proficiency in additional languages is considered a plus.
- Strategic Contribution & Mindset
- Challenge legacy specifications, OEM dependencies, and historical sourcing decisions.
- Introduce innovative sourcing models and technically validated alternatives.
- Use data and analytics to expose inefficiencies and opportunities.
- Bring external benchmarks and best practices into the organization.
Additional info
- Location: Milan, Via Borsi 9
- Travel Flexibility: around 15 to 20%
- Starting time: Q1 2026