Regional Category Manager (m/f/d) Corporate Logistics Procurement Europe

About Us

We are ALTANA: one group of companies – four divisions: BYK, ECKART, ELANTAS, and ACTEGA. A global leader in specialty chemicals with myriad opportunities for you to develop and grow. Enrich your life with this decisive plus!

Position Overview

Regional Category Manager (m/f/d) Corporate Logistics Procurement Europe – Location: Wesel on the Lower Rhine or Hartenstein

Responsibilities

• Realize a European tender roadmap, regularly reviewing tendering logistics services in the market in terms of costs and service and strategically evolving our logistics network concerning service provider management, costs and benefits.
• Improving data quality, reporting, and digitization.
• Taking our logistics reporting to the next level, making both current and future procurement market situations accessible to the ALTANA organization.
• Further developing and implementing European logistics and procurement strategies for air, ocean, and land transportation as well as warehousing services in close collaboration with the ALTANA Head of Logistics Procurement and in coordination with ALTANA divisions stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s, master’s, or diploma in economics, engineering, supply chain management, logistics, or a similar subject.
• Several years of experience in the procurement of logistics services in a producing industry, international multi-project management, and negotiating for logistics tenders and freight rates.
• Advanced analytical skills to design, implement, and evaluate complex logistics tenders.
• Excellent organizational grasp with a strong service and stakeholder orientation and prime prioritization capabilities for a dynamic work environment.
• Dexterous handling of Excel and procurement‑specific database tools.
• Adroit working on diverse simultaneous projects and tasks.
• Proven conception and implementation accomplishments.
• Excellent goal orientation and problem‑solving capabilities.
• Strong target group‑oriented communication skills at all hierarchical levels.
• Expertise in international cooperation.
• Proficiency in written and spoken German and English.

Our Plus

• A comfortable working environment where everyone knows each other personally and exchanges views, and short information and decision‑making paths.
• An excellent environment for implementing your ideas paired with constructive openness to new developments and other ways of thinking.
• Modern pension schemes.
• Flexible working hours with options to work partially remotely.
• Very attractive development opportunities in a globally active and growing group of companies.

Contact

Please send your application, preferably via our job market .

ALTANA Management Services GmbH | Nicola Krohn | HR | Tel.

ALTANA AG and its subsidiaries is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability.

Job ID: #1496

Legal entity: ALTANA Management Services GmbH

Location: Wesel on the Lower Rhine or Hartenstein