About The Role

Would you like to join a global, growing company that innovates for a more sustainable tomorrow? UPM could be the team for you. We are frontrunners in developing renewable alternatives to fossil-based materials. Besides enabling both businesses and consumers make more sustainable choices, we strive to create a positive UPM experience for all our employees around the world. We live by our values – trust and be trusted, achieve together, renew with courage. Together we can renew the everyday, for a future beyond fossils!

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What you will do

Take care about typical MRO (maintenance, repair, operations) relevant needs e.g. mechanical services, scaffolding, cleaning, insulation, crane work, pipe material, gaskets, spare parts, plant equipment etc.
Be responsible for independent coordination with the maintenance team
Ensure strong commercial outcomes: apply sourcing best practices, run competitive events (RFx), challenge specifications, optimize total cost.
Guide and influence stakeholders in driving sourcing projects
Create, negotiate and manage contracts
Identify proactively opportunities to reduce spend
Analyze and evaluate supplier's performance/ escalations, manage & optimize supply base
Use Ariba platform to enhance sourcing event execution
Ensure efficient, effective, compliant Source-to-Contract process implementation in your everyday work.
Own operational performance: manage intake and pipeline, balance capacity vs. demand, shorten cycle times, and continuously improve SLA adherence, compliance, and stakeholder satisfaction
Accelerate digital & automation adoption: strengthen use of sourcing e-tools, standMRO ardize templates, analytics, identify automation opportunities to improve speed and quality.

Who you are

You have a Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in (industrial) engineering, (technical) business administration or other relevant professional qualifications in the related area
You have at least 3 years of work experience in MRO sourcing e.g. as a sourcing specialist related to materials and services in the chemical industry
You are fluent in English and German and you have experience in working at German market, with German suppliers and German contracts
experience of e-sourcing tools like SAP 4/Hana, Ariba and SBN is beneficial
knowledge about legal requirements in German chemical industrial sector is beneficial
You are proactive, service-oriented person with strong communication, negotiation and influencing skills
You have a general technical understanding of typical industrial needs
You show assertiveness against internal stakeholders and suppliers
You have good collaboration and team-working skills, you have self-management skills and are not afraid to take initiative and challenge the status quo
You are ready to occasionally travel for business