Job
Description- Sourcing Specialist TS & TM (EU- German)
About
Aligned Automation
At
Aligned Automation, we live by our "Better
Together" philosophy to build a better world. As a strategic service
provider to Fortune 500 companies, we help digitize enterprise operations and
drive impactful business strategies. Our purpose goes beyond projects—we strive
to deliver meaningful, sustainable change that shapes a more optimistic and
equitable future.
Our
culture is deeply rooted in our 4Cs—Care, Courage, Curiosity,
and Collaboration—ensuring that each employee is empowered to grow,
innovate, and thrive in an inclusive workplace.
Basic Function :
- Participates in the development of procurement strategies for the technical services and material categories required to support Opex and Capex projects. Analyzes segment data, works with vendors and supply market data to deploy/implement strategies that integrate complex, internal, technical requirements.
- An active team member with responsibility for executing sourcing activities pertaining to running the spend segment. Responsible for detailed total cost of ownership analysis to support business decisions
- Negotiates and implements moderate sized spend agreements, on a multi-site or national level. Utilizes comprehensive and systemic market analysis for the goods/services procured to drive lowest total cost and maximum value to the company. Participates in major negotiation by providing supporting analysis to the category manager.
- Communicates regularly and effectively with the category manager who assumes the relationship with the stakeholders and vendors
Roles and Responsibilities :
- Works in collaboration with a category manager to executes strategic sourcing following the agreed processes and sourcing strategy methodology. Utilizes market analysis and complex contracting strategies adapted to the commodities. Assesses risks associated with supply and technical compliance.
- Ensures the creation of strategic purchasing plans driven by customer requirements, manufacturing results and capabilities, distribution and logistics objectives and business economics.
- Maintains focus on added value, lowest total - life cycle- cost and cost savings. Implements measurement systems to measure performance level of the sourcing strategy and supplier effectiveness. Develops and composes bid specification in such a manner that internal customer needs are addressed
- Develops analytical tools to analyze and optimize compliance to strategies
- Support to category manager for procurement transformation
and change/knowledge management, commercial leakage avoidance
- Ensures high ethical and financial control
compliance standards are met by the organization
- Promotes excellent working relationships with
category manager and other members of the team.
Min.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree required. Bachelor of
Science degree in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Petroleum
Engineering, or Process Engineering would be a plus.
- Experience of working with
EU suppliers
- 5+ years procurement-related experience
required
- Experience using Ariba system
for procurement processes required
- Must have a strong knowledge
of German language – minimum level Goethe Zertifikat B1/B2 (C1 preferred)
Preferred Qualifications :
- Master's
degree preferred (or recognized equivalent).
- Petrochemical or refinery
industry experience and knowledge related to purchasing and materials
management is preferred.
- Knowledge on New
technology /Digital Planning into procurement
- Knowledge of working in SAP
ERP system for procurement processes
- Onsite/global exposure to
countries- France, Germany, Italy, Spain
- The ideal candidate will have prior experience
sourcing Technical Services / Materials.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree (Mechanical, Chemical, Petroleum, Process Engineering a plus)
- 5+ years procurement-related experience
- Experience working with EU suppliers
- Experience using Ariba system for procurement processes
- Strong knowledge of German language (minimum Goethe Zertifikat B1/B2; C1 preferred)
- Prior experience sourcing technical services and materials
- Master's degree
- Petrochemical or refinery industry purchasing and materials management experience
- Knowledge of new technology / digital planning in procurement
- Experience with SAP ERP for procurement processes
- Onsite/global exposure to France, Germany, Italy, Spain
What We Do
Technology, society, economy, policy – all moving at breakneck speed in our 21st century world. You’re feeling the pressure to quickly implement new business models, find new value, make split-second informed decisions and keep one step ahead of customers. How? The answer lies in the ability to make quick, accurate and sustainable business decisions. We believe digital offers a way of doing things better – but the journey to transformation doesn’t have to be painful. At Aligned Automation, we work hard to digitally enable your business strategy – connecting processes, technologies and people to unlock value and drive critical business outcomes.
