Teamlead Sourcing (m/w/d) for Speciality Ingredients

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.

Are you an experienced procurement professional with a passion for specialty ingredients? Do you have strong leadership skills and the ability to drive a strategic sourcing approach? We are looking for a highly motivated and skilled Teamlead Sourcing to join our dynamic team and lead our procurement strategy for specialty ingredients.

Your Role:

• Formulate, implement and ensure the sourcing strategy for the category, aligning with the overall organizational sourcing strategy
• Collaborate with key interfaces to ensure strategic alignment across all procurement activities
• Lead supplier management activities, ensuring optimal relationships, performance and value from our suppliers
• Build and maintain strong, strategic partnerships with key suppliers
• Continuously monitor and evaluate relevant price trends and developments within procurement markets
• Ensure the procurement team stays ahead of market changes and uses this information to make informed sourcing decisions
• Lead the negotiation of contracts and agreements with suppliers, ensuring that terms are favorable, compliant and support long-term strategic goals
• Oversee the processing of complaints, ensuring timely resolution and continuous improvement
• Analyze complaint data and implement corrective actions to minimize issues
• Drive active market observation to stay informed of emerging trends, opportunities and risks
• Develop and implement comprehensive procurement plans to meet business needs and goals

Your Profile:

• Proven experience in procurement or sourcing of Natural and/or Synthetic ingredientsuse in the Flavors industry or similar
• Strong leadership and team management capabilities
• Excellent negotiation, communication and interpersonal skills
• Deep understanding of procurement processes, market dynamics and supplier management
• Ability to analyze complex market data and trends and apply insights to strategic decision-making
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to manage complaints and feedback effectively
• Experience with procurement planning, strategy formulation and execution
• Fluency in English (additional languages are a plus)

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.