Global Commodity Manager (f/m/d)

A Snapshot of Your Day

Join us as a Global Commodity Manager (f/m/d) – Engineering Services and take the lead in shaping the strategic procurement for the Engineering Services category. The category focuses on the outsourcing of Engineering Services (e.g. testing, simulations, mechanical/electrical/systems engineering) to suppliers during the R&D, product development and customer implementation phase. In this key role, you will work closely with partners from engineering who are at the forefront of the latest innovations and product developments within Siemens Energy.

How You’ll Make An Impact

• Lead sourcing activities from demand request to award, performing total cost analysis to select high‑performing suppliers that meet cost, quality, and delivery requirements; initiate and steer cost‑saving and bundling activities, growing managed spend with flawless execution.
• Prepare and negotiate global frame contracts and price agreements for strategic suppliers, strictly aligning with business and market requirements.
• Build and manage relationships with strategic suppliers, develop a strategic supplier portfolio, and de‑risk supplier dependencies while reducing tail‑end suppliers.
• Consult with partners up to senior management on outsourcing strategies and risk avoidance; work closely with different procurement areas to ensure world‑class outcomes.
• Collaborate with partners to determine and successfully implement the category strategy, building additional value aligned with business needs and strategic objectives.
• Review planned projects/demands, understand demand structures, and develop basic technical knowledge of the product portfolio.

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree or equivalent experience in business administration, supply chain management, engineering, or similar fields.
• Proven long‑standing experience in a procurement or commercial role within a global organization; experience with service contracts, and experience in engineering is a plus.
• Strong negotiation, interpersonal, and conflict resolution skills; coupled with leadership experience; experience in project management is a plus.
• Experience working in global teams and communicating effectively up to senior management levels across the organization.
• A strong sense of accountability and initiative, exhibiting excellent analytical skills, a structured work style, critical thinking, and customer focus.
• Proficiency in English and German for business purposes.

About The Team

Our Corporate and Global Functions are essential in driving the company's critical initiatives and ensuring operational excellence across various groups, business areas, and regions. These roles support our vision to become the most valued energy technology company in the world. As part of our team, you contribute to our vision by shaping the global energy transition, partnering with our internal and external customers, and conducting business responsibly and in compliance with legal requirements and regulations.

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With about 100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one‑sixth of the world’s electricity generation. Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150‑year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

Our Commitment to Diversity

Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.

Rewards/Benefits

• In addition to an attractive remuneration package in line with the market, you can expect an attractive employer‑financed company pension scheme.
• We also offer the opportunity to become a Siemens Energy shareholder.
• We offer our employees the opportunity to work flexibly and remotely; and our inspiring offices provide space for collaboration and creativity.
• The professional and personal development of our employees is very important to us. We provide them with opportunities to learn and develop in a self‑determined way; various attractive programs and learning materials are available for this purpose.
• In relation to the compatibility of family and work, we have a wide range of offers, e.g. flexible working time models, childcare places at many locations, the possibility of trial part‑time work or even a sabbatical.

We value equal opportunities and welcome applications from people with disabilities.