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Job advertisement: Category Manager – IT (m/f/d)
Location: Cologne
About our job offer
Category Manager – IT (m/f/d)
What lies ahead for you?
- Development and implementation of IT category strategies to optimise expenditure and supplier relationships
- Autonomous leadership of negotiations and finalisation of global IT contracts and framework agreements, including licence models and SLAs
- Management of IT sourcing projects, pooling initiatives and cost optimisation as well as category governance
- Establishment and maintenance of strategic partnerships with internal stakeholders and suppliers
- Cybersecurity and cloud security compliance
- Integration of sustainability requirements: supplier evaluations, audits and action plans
- Working in a modern S2P environment with Coupa
What should you bring?
- Completed degree in business or IT, or a qualification in a related field
- 5 to 10 years' experience in strategic procurement, including around 5 years in IT procurement
- Demonstrable experience in category management as well as in independently conducting sourcing projects and negotiating major IT contracts
- Sound knowledge of SaaS, IaaS and PaaS models, licensing models and SLAs
- Experience in supplier risk management as well as with cybersecurity and cloud security requirements
- Strategic thinking: market analysis, supplier portfolio and risk management
- Confident demeanour when dealing with specialist departments, the legal department and management, alongside the ability to constructively challenge requirements
- Full professional proficiency in English and very good knowledge of German
- Willingness to travel up to 30 %
What does our customer offer?
- Above-tariff remuneration in a stable chemical industry group environment
- Hybrid working: 3 days on-site in Cologne, the rest working from home
- 6 additional flexi-leave days in lieu of overtime
- CareFlex supplementary nursing care insurance
- Flat hierarchies in an intercultural environment as well as individual development and further training opportunities
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