Purchasing Assistant Manager

At Henkel, you can build on a strong legacy and leading positions in both industrial and consumer businesses to reimagine and improve life every day. If you love challenging the status quo, join our community of 50,000 pioneers around the globe. The teams in our corporate functions enable the best in our dynamic businesses and in our people to maximize our company’s potential. With our leading brands, our cutting-edge technologies and our disruptive solutions, you will have countless opportunities to explore new paths and develop your skills. Grow within our future-led businesses, our diverse and vibrant culture and find a place where you simply belong. All to leave your mark for more sustainable growth.

Dare to make an impact?

YOUR ROLE

• Ensure supply continuity & manage all critical shortages & FM’s avoiding out of stocks & impact on NES
• Optimize (together with SC) the e2e value chain demand-to-supply to improve supplier service level, supplier quality level & Raws / Packs inventory 
• Supports the sourcing categories in bringing contractual agreements to a higher level of maturity and standardization with regards to risk mitigation and operational performance
• Manage together with the team all operational standard processes with the target to enable supply, secure supply, improve supply and verify supply
• Ensure consistent global documentation & reporting on supply disruptions & defined supply resilience KPIs in the region
• Enhance usage of tool on supplier performance (supplier evals, OTIF), supply disruption (FM Bot, CRISP) and proactive risk mitigation (DDF) 
• Responsible for local supplier scouting with close collaboration with the sourcing teams to increase the sourcing flexibility

YOUR SKILLS

• BSc/BA in Engineering,Business Administration,MBA or master’s degree is desirable
• Minimum 5 years of experience in a multinational company
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with aptitude in building relationships with professionals of all organizational levels
• Builds strong relationship with internal Business stakeholders such as supply chain, sales, marketing, R&D
• Technological/market know-how
• Market know-how about the raw materials & packaging materials
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English with the ability to interact effectively with all levels of management
• Advanced user of MS Office applications
• SAP knowledge is an advantage

Henkel is an equal opportunity employer. We look for a diverse team of individuals who possess different backgrounds, experiences, personalities and mindsets.