Senior Purchasing Specialist - Supply Resilience

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 47.000 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

• Monitor and mitigate supply chain risks, implementing strategies for continuity and resilience.
• Stay informed about industry regulations and trends, adapting purchasing strategies accordingly
• Manage operational standard processes with the target to enable, secure, improve, and verify supply for 3 specialized manufacturing plants.
• Ensures supply continuity and manages all critical shortages
• Optimizes, together with Supply Chain, the e2e value chain demand-to-supply to improve supplier service and quality level, and raws/packs inventory
• Collaborates with the regional stakeholders and cross-functional teams to align procurement activities with organizational needs. 
• Oversee the procurement process, from requisition to delivery, ensuring timely and efficient operations.
• Manage and maintain accurate records of purchasing transactions, contracts, and supplier information.
• Monitor and mitigate supply chain risks, implementing strategies for continuity and resilience.

YOUR SKILLS

• Bachelor in Business, Engineering or similar.
• 7 years of experience in Purchasing or Supply Chain.
• Experience managing complex supply shortages.
• High level of autonomy and team work.
• Fluent English.
• Advanced Microsoft Office.

At Henkel, we come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We believe the uniqueness of all our employees is the power in us. Become part of the team and bring your uniqueness to us! We welcome all applications across different genders, origins, cultures, religions, sexual orientations, disabilities, and generations.