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Sourcing Manager 

Title

Sourcing Manager

Purpose

The job holder is primarily responsible for the execution of procurement sourcing activities at Bayer. This includes managing all required goods and services in alignment with the agreed global category strategies and sourcing approaches.

Key responsibilities include identifying and evaluating supply sources, performing sourcing events, negotiating contracts, and ensuring cost-efficient, high-quality, and timely procurement while supporting business needs. The job holder plays a central role in driving procurement effectiveness by implementing innovative sourcing strategies and sustainable solutions that contribute to the company’s business growth objectives.

Collaboration with stakeholders and suppliers is also a critical aspect, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and fostering strong relationships that enhance sourcing performance.

Scope (global, regional, local):

Regional & Global

Key Tasks

• Demonstrates DSO behaviors:
  • Focus on outcomes: Define and deliver the highest impact outcomes for farmers, patients, consumers, and stakeholders
  • Be your best self and include others: Respect differences, embrace inclusion, and show up as your best self
  • Collaborate with accountability: Collaborate and hold yourself and others accountable, in and across teams
  • Co-create for the customers: Be close to the customer and co-create solutions for their needs
  • Act, learn fast, and evolve: Work in 90-day-cycles, learn quickly, and continually develop
• Sourcing:
  • Is accountable for all sourcing activities for the assigned suppliers including the delegation to external service providers where applicable and the related content handover to GBS
  • Maintains oversight and proactively communicates potential supply constraints to the Category Leadership network
  • Supports sourcing events for strategic initiatives in close collaboration with the responsible Category Leads
• Stakeholder Engagement:
  • Understands business needs and engages with global/regional and local stakeholders to meet their priorities and requirements
  • Establishes effective, trustful, and personal relationships with key business stakeholders to set joint target agreements, align joint projects (if applicable also across categories), and is the contact point for all Procurement topics for the business stakeholder community
  • Defines the Procurement value add for the business stakeholder community and provides Procurement procedural know-how, guidance, and governance
• Supplier Management:
  • Creates and monitors supply agreements over the entire lifecycle minimizing exposure to contractual risks in external relationships through the usage of terms and conditions aligned with the legal function
  • Provides country-specific market intelligence to mitigate supply risk, gain competitive advantage, and make better business decisions
  • Continuously conducts detailed supplier and supply market analysis at the country/regional level looking at facts and indicating market trends in supply base and technology

Key Working Relation:

• Procurement internal:
  • Sourcing Home Lead in Procurment
  • Procurement Enablement
  • Procurement Category Managers
  • Procurement Regional Managers
  • Related Communities of Practice
  • GBS Source to Pay
• Procurement external:
  • Budget Owners, Users & Business stakeholders
  • Finance / Controlling
  • Regulatory Affairs
  • R&D
  • LPC
  • Other members of divisional Customer Teams, Product Teams, and Technical Teams
• Bayer external:
  • Key, as well as selected base suppliers

Skills & Qualifications:

• BA/BS degree in science, engineering, or business management
• Strong interest and ideally first experience in Procurement and Procurement processes and sourcing methodologies
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills combined with strong collaboration, influencing, and communication competencies
• Capable to work in a global and virtual working environment and able to lead virtual teams
• Financial acumen and strategic mindset seasoned with analytical decision-making skills
• High proficiency level in written and spoken English

Key Figures:

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