Procurement Manager – Project Procurement, Category Management

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🕒 March 6

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PLATH Corporation GmbH

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11 - 50 employees

🎖️ Defense

💼 Consulting

🔐 Security

Defense • Consulting • Security

PLATH Corporation GmbH is a Hamburg-based group founded in 1954 that develops and supplies innovative technologies and systems for state security and defense organizations, focusing on data-driven crisis early warning, signals intelligence and risk detection. The company supports governmental actors with hardware and software solutions to detect and prevent conflicts, and it invests in specialized portfolio companies to drive innovation and growth, with more than 350 installed systems across 40+ countries.

📋 Description

• Responsibility for strategic and operational project procurement across the entire project lifecycle • Responsibility for specific product categories and for developing and implementing category strategies as well as supplier/partner management, taking into account cost, quality, delivery performance and risks • Conducting tender processes, bid comparisons and contract negotiations • Selection, evaluation, maintenance and development of suppliers and strategic partners • Close collaboration with Project Management, Engineering, Quality, Logistics and Controlling • Ensuring on-time delivery, budget compliance and supply security in projects, and enforcing internal procurement policies • Analysis of procurement markets and identification of cost-reduction and optimization opportunities • Contract management including framework agreements, product supply and work contracts • Monitoring relevant KPIs and reporting to management • Contributing to the further development of procurement processes and systems

🎯 Requirements

• University degree in Business Administration, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain Management or a comparable qualification • Several years of professional experience in project and/or strategic procurement • Experience in category management and supplier development • Excellent negotiation and communication skills • Analytical, structured and results-oriented way of working • Confident user of ERP systems (e.g., proAlpha) and MS Office • Business-fluent German and English • High level of initiative, assertiveness and team spirit • Willingness to travel internationally on a limited basis

🏖️ Benefits

• Central location • Flexible working hours • 30 days’ vacation • Job ticket & fuel vouchers • Campus@ PLATH • Sabbatical • Various company events • Health promotion measures • Corporate benefits • Company pension scheme • Mobile working • Career development support