Global Category Lead, Capital Equipment

At Fresenius Medical Care, we are the global leader in kidney care, committed to improving the lives of patients with chronic kidney disease. Our mission is to deliver high-quality, innovative products, services, and care across the entire healthcare journey. Guided by our vision—“Creating a future worth living. For patients. Worldwide. Every day.”—we work with purpose and compassion, supported by a global team of over 125,000 employees.

As a part of Global Functions, our Procurement Department is driving transformation through our FME Reignite strategy, which focuses on innovation, efficiency, and sustainable growth. Our values are the foundation of our culture: 

• We Care for our patients, each other, and our communities. 

• We Connect across teams and borders to deliver excellence together. 

• We Commit to doing things the right way—growing with purpose and leading kidney care with integrity and innovation. 

As the Global Category Lead for Capital Expenditure, you will be responsible for overseeing expenditure in the sub-categories of Machinery & Equipment, Buildings & Infrastructure across over 35 production sites worldwide.

Your tasks:

• Lead all strategic and some tactical activities for the assigned category in the respective regions
• Lead and provide global oversight for the global category and its respective suppliers with a key focus on optimizing spending under BCC / LCC sourcing.
• Negotiate, implement and manage contracts within assigned [sub] categories under consideration of business lines’ targets and in tight cooperation with business lines’ management
• Develop and implement global category strategies as well as coordinating with local procurement teams as necessary to align resources, contributing to the development and implementation of category strategy, project design, and execution.
• Monitor and evaluate market conditions impacting the assigned category and determine appropriate actions to benefit or protect FME from any changes
• Seek the strategic input of key stakeholders and align the category strategies accordingly
• Drive the supplier selection and development process together with other interface functions
• Involve key suppliers in innovation processes
• Initiate and implement cost reduction actions pertaining to the assigned commodities
• Coordinate the tactical procurement processes, e.g. RfQ, negotiations, finalizing agreements etc. for the assigned categories
• Monitor supplier performance and develop a best fit supplier portfolio (best cost country sourcing)
• Consolidate and optimize the internal requirements and demand across regions/plants
• Ensure usage of eProcurement tools and processes, such as SRM to increase efficiency and effectiveness

Your profile:

• Successfully completed studies in Industrial Engineering or Business Administration or comparable education
• Minimum 8 years of experience in Global Category Management of a manufacturing, multinational company.
• Good knowledge of manufacturing technologies
• Deep understanding of machine and process validation
• Understanding the impact of changing a single component of a machine on downstream processes
• Ability to read and understand 3rd party single component technical documentations
• Ability to read and understand machine documentations (3D, 2D, BOM…)
• Good knowledge about products, materials, final product applications and functions
• Good knowledge of global markets, including experience in Best Cost Country Sourcing
• Fluent in English (German a bonus)
• Very good IT skills (SAP, MS Office, SRM, CAD or 3D Viewer)

Our Offer For You:

There is a lot you can discover at Fresenius Medical Care, regardless in which field you are an expert and how much experience you have - all dedicated to your professional journey.

• Whether in front of or behind the scenes - you are helping to make ever better medicine available to more and more people around the world
• Individual opportunities for self-determined career planning and professional development
• A corporate culture in which there is enough room for innovative thinking - to find the best solution together, not the quickest one
• A large number of committed people with a wide range of skills, talents and experience
• The benefits of a successful global corporation with the collegial culture of a medium-sized company