Teamlead (m/f/d) Souring Excellence

Date: Dec 20, 2024

Location: Darmstadt, DE

Company: Döhler Group

Reference ID: 41706

Are you interested in high-quality, natural, and tasty nutrition?

We are! It’s our ambition to shape the future of nutrition.

Döhler is a leading global producer of natural ingredients and solutions for the food, beverage, lifestyle and nutrition industries. We use innovative technology to process plant-based raw materials and enrich products such as lifestyle drinks, cereals, dairy, and confectionery goods for almost every well-known brand. Close to 10.000 dedicated employees in more than 70 countries share one common goal - to ensure that millions of people around the world enjoy the products created by us.

We strive to inspire and empower our employees in everything we do, and we invite you to join our team – together WE BRING IDEAS TO LIFE.

 

Your Role

  • You are responsible for the development of a seamless digital sourcing environment and digital sourcing &supplier collaboration processes
  • You define and manage (global) business excellence projects and proactively drive forward process optimization as well as the further digitalization
  • As an expert in process analysis you identify potentials and innovations, implement measures for streamlining and further automation of value-added processes using the latest process mining tools
  • You actively contribute to projects and act as a business partner for the department
  • You initiate and lead sourcing automatization projects and support tool implementations.
  • You manage and advise the functional project teams, set priorities and track the implementation of measures
  • Using your skills in handling data and tools, you develop best practice models
  • Your tasks include the documentation, further development of the improvement processes
  • You roll out training and change management concepts for internal and external stakeholders
  • You lead a team of sourcing excellence managers in development and execution of the required tools
  • You work closely with interdisciplinary teams e.g. Sourcing / Controlling / Sustainability / Supply Chain / Quality and Finance.

 

Your Profile

  • You have several years of relevant experience in process analysis, conception and implementation in operational functions; especially in sourcing
  • You have successfully completed your university degree in Business Administration, (Business) Informatics or similar
  • You know how to identify optimization potentials in end-to-end processes and how to derive improvements
  • You have strong analytical and problem solving skills paired with a technical understanding
  • You are an expert with SAP S4 Hana and SAP Ariba, especially in the area of Source-to-Pay, as well as a profound knowledge of Microsoft Office Tools
  • Process mining tools are part of your daily business
  • You have a proven-track record in project management (e.g. implementation of global processes, standards, etc.)
  • Your working languages are German and English

 

Your Benefits

  • Culture: Friendly and informal atmosphere, family-owned company, flat hierarchies, short communication channels, and helpful colleagues
  • Impact: You are an integral part of our business success and make an important contribution to the future of nutrition
  • Empowerment: You can fully unleash your potential and have the opportunity to take on responsibilities
  • Digitalization: We maintain excellent partnerships with market-leading innovators, allowing you to access and work with state-of-the-art technologies
  • Anniversary and special payments
  • Employee referral bonuses
  • Additional benefits: Christmas parties, events, financial benefits, and online shop discounts (e.g., IT leasing, mobile phone contracts, shopping, and travel discounts, etc.)

 

Equal opportunities for all

We welcome applicants, who are just as diverse as we are - regardless of age, ancestry, disability, ethnic origin, gender, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, social background or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.

Become a part of our team and apply online trough our career portal to the attention of Nicole Arnold. Please note that we are unable to consider or return application documents sent by mail.