About Umicore

Reducing harmful vehicle emissions. Giving new life to used metals. Powering the cars of the future. As a global materials and technology group, we apply our specialist knowledge to offer materials and solutions that are essential to everyday life. We aim to be a clear world leader in materials for clean mobility and recycling and have turned our sustainability approach into an even greater competitive advantage. With ambitions like this, imagine what you could do?

About Business / Department

A global organisation. It’s not just those in our industrial sites and technical centres that are vital to Umicore’s growth. Across our support functions we ensure that we continue to grow and evolve – whether it’s by making sure our decisions are commercially viable, enhancing our reputation, building new customer relationships or finding the right people who can build on what we’ve already achieved. The variety of our work means we cannot stand still. We need to find new ways to do things, discover new solutions and develop new ideas. Which is where you come in.

What you will be doing

Implement procurement for Industrial Projects

• Lead capex project purchasing to conduct all purchasing/commercial related things, incl. but not limited to below:
• Project purchasing strategy definition
• Propose and develop Bidder List for approval
• Conduct new vendor development and pre-qualification
• PO/Contract negotiation
• Monitor Supplier/Contractor performance during project execution
• Create PO at SAP and work with team for expediting
• Jointly work with Engineering team, EPCm contractor and other internal/external stakeholder during project execution
• Maintain Supplier Relation
• Conduct Supplier Performance Evaluation and Assessment
• Support Payment proceeding
• Solve the problem related project purchasing
• Ensure that clients’ needs are reflected in the category strategy
• Establish spend baselines and category profile, inclusive risk assessment, supplier relationship management and procure to pay strategy
• Prepare and lead agreement negotiations in cross functional teams
• Execute and monitor the added value initiatives as originating from the category strategy
• Ensure alignment with global business strategies, overall procurement strategy and the projected added value plan
• Manage local capex purchasing team whom reports to him/her

Global Category Purchasing Management

• Take a strategic and long term view in identifying and developing innovative sources and contractual arrangements, and establish the targets in alignment with global Capex team and internal Clients
• Join force with P&T category team and/or internal client for local sourcing and project execution
• Participate in regular or irregular meeting/workshop/discussion to maintain global capex category work as regional representative
• Work with project team for purchasing strategy development

Share sourcing trends, best practices and results and organize knowledge distribution

Drive optimisation of user compliance, supplier performance, contracts and customer satisfaction for the Industrial Projects related procurement

Define, consolidate and execute improvement plans and ensure stakeholder alignment

Work and support P&T China/APAC strategy in related work incl. Opex, PTX and T&TC function

Who we are looking for

Functional Requirements:

• Bachelor degree (engineering/electrical/civil, …) or equivalent by experience
• Substantial professional experience in Chemical/Metallurgy industrial projects procurement in WOFE (> 10 years)
• Good communication/presentation skill
• Excellent English is an absolute necessity
• Frequent Travel is necessary (2-3 times per month)
• Shor or Long term allocation is possible
• SAP SRM/Ariba application

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Personal Skills:

• Performance and result oriented, internal customer oriented, strives for continuous improvement
• Analytical & conceptual thinking and decision making; strong project and risk management skills
• Exemplary behaviour towards ethics and integrity
• Strong communicator and interpersonal impact (influencing and persuading)
• Teamwork, collaboration & flexibility

What we offer

We aim to lead the way. Not just for our customers, but for our employees too. That is why we strive to create a collaborative environment in which we can all succeed, and a culture through which we can all share ideas, develop our expertise and advance our careers. We engage in building an inclusive work culture that offers equal opportunities for all employees irrespective of their diverse backgrounds. As you would expect from a world-leading organisation, we will also reward your contribution with a competitive salary and benefits. With all this and more, imagine what you could do?

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If we can become a world leader in recycling and clean mobility,  IMAGINE WHAT YOU COULD DO?