Webasto Group

Category Purchasing Expert - Glazing (f/m/x)

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Job Description

Purchasing & Supplier Quality is crucial to our success as a global provider of innovative mobility solutions. As part of the procurement team, you actively help shape the future of mobility. Close collaboration with all business areas ensures the definition and implementation of commodity group strategies, while commercial negotiations have a direct impact on the company's success. Selecting the best and most innovative suppliers guarantees the highest quality standards, as well as sustainable and innovative products. The tasks in procurement are as diverse as they are essential to success.

You can look forward to these exciting tasks:

  • Development and execution of the global category strategy in close collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders to drive savings, cash targets, and sustainable value creation
  • Management and optimization of supplier panels, including contract negotiations, to secure competitive commercial conditions and long-term partnerships
  • Ensuring supply security and mitigating risks by monitoring supplier performance and financial health, as well as proactively managing critical situations (e.g., insolvencies)
  • Steering of sourcing activities and identification of cost-saving opportunities through market analysis, strategic sourcing approaches, and global bundling/auctioning
  • Driving compliance, sustainability, and performance transparency, including adherence to corporate standards, data integrity, and continuous performance tracking

This is what you bring to us:

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business Administration, Engineering, or a related field
  • 3–5 years of experience in Purchasing or Supply Chain Management, ideally within the automotive or related industries (e.g., glazing)
  • Strong negotiation, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to operate confidently across all organizational levels
  • Strategic and analytical mindset paired with business acumen, enabling data-driven decision-making and cross-functional thinking
  • Structured, reliable, and results-oriented working style, combined with strong English language skills (additional languages are a plus)

Applications from qualified individuals with disabilities are expressly welcome.

Your contact person:

Martin Czembor, People & Organization Stockdorf

Get to know us here and find out why we are passionate about attracting talent to Webasto.

We look forward to receiving your online application!

Webasto Group

About Webasto Group

As a global innovative systems partner to the mobility industry, Webasto is one of the 100 largest suppliers to the automotive sector worldwide. In development, manufacturing and sales, the company focuses on roof systems on the one hand and on vehicle electrification on the other hand. The product range includes openable and fixed roofs, electric high-voltage heaters and batteries, as well as thermo management solutions. Among the customers of Webasto are manufacturers of passenger cars, commercial vehicles, and boats, as well as dealers and end customers. In 2024, the Group generated sales of around 4.3 billion euros and employed around 15,300 people at more than 50 locations. The headquarters of the company, which was founded in 1901, is located in Stockdorf near Munich (Germany). For more information, please visit www.webasto.com

Webasto SE

Head Office: Gauting (Stockdorf)

Register of companies: München HRB 199587

Chairman of the Supervisory Board: Dr. Rolf Bulander

Management Board: Jörg Buchheim (Chairman), Marcel Bartling, Jan-Henning Mehlfeldt, Jörg Bremer, Johann Stohner

Further information: https://www.webasto-group.com/en/imprint/

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Industry
Automotive & Mobility
Company Size
5,001-10,000 employees
Headquarters
Stockdorf, DE
Year Founded
1901
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