Indirect Strategic Sourcing Agent EMEA

Find what drives you on a team with a more than 75-year history of discovery, determination, and innovation. As a global leader in high-tech filtration, separation, and purification, Pall Corporation thrives on helping our customers solve their toughest challenges. Our products serve diverse, global customer needs across a wide range of applications to advance health, safety and environmentally responsible technologies. For the exponentially curious, Pall is a place you can thrive and amplify your impact on the world.

Pall is one of 10 Life Sciences companies of Danaher. Together, we accelerate the discovery, development and delivery of solutions that safeguard and improve human health.

The Indirect Strategic Sourcing Agent, EMEA will serve as the Indirect Lead in EMEA with a concentration on Facilities, MRO and Fleet. This role will support indirect sourcing projects and activities in EMEA (based on business needs).

These activities will include significant interaction with all business units and functions to provide Global Sourcing, Outsourcing, contract Management and supplier relationships and strategy. The role will require interaction with other Strategic Sourcing/Category Managers, both regionally and globally.

The Fleet responsibilities will include the administrative duties for the centralized fleet covering various countries across Europe (Germany, UK, France, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Poland, Netherlands). Process and manage all Fleet requests and inventory.

This position will support, monitor, evaluate, and mentor the local tactical purchasing team members and site leads while ensuring policies and procedures regarding compliance, commitments, early involvement, supplier selection, supplier evaluation, and supplier development related to the category are understood and implemented.

The role is part of the Global Integrated Supply Team and will be based onsite in Bad Kreuznach, Germany.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Work on Key Performance Indicators and Cost Savings Targets
• Ownership of Strategic Sourcing Processes and Compliance
• Legal interactions for example Supplier Non-Disclosure Agreements and legal interactions between Pall and Supplier(s)
• Supplier Relationship Management
• Organizational Collaboration

The essential requirements of the job include:

• Bachelor’s Degree in procurement, supply chain, or relevant experience
• Experience in category management, global strategic sourcing, purchasing, supplier relationship management.
• Experience in sourcing multiple categories and in fleet and/or travel
• Proven negotiation skills, with demonstrated performance results.
• Fluent English and German (minimum B2) speaker with excellent verbal and written communication skills

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:

• Experience in SAP is preferred.

Pall Corporation, a Danaher company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job.

At Danaher we bring together science, technology and operational capabilities to accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life. Our global teams are pioneering what’s next across Life Sciences, Diagnostics, Biotechnology and beyond.

At Danaher, we value diversity and the existence of similarities and differences, both visible and not, found in our workforce, workplace and throughout the markets we serve. Our associates, customers and shareholders contribute unique and different perspectives as a result of these diverse attributes.