Regional Category Manager- Energy

Listgrove is the retained partner for a leading engineering materials company and highly integrated solution provider, committed to the sustainable future of polyamides.  

Organise, lead and follow the Category processes, benchmarks, market evolutions, trends, cost-build-up, including leading proactive sourcing projects, specification definition and demand management activities. Additional responsibility for managing supplier performance and innovation and sustainability activities, as defined in Supplier Performance & Innovation Framework on Cost/Value/Risk.

Responsibilities:

• Define regional long-term sourcing strategy for electricity - gas and hydrogen, including “green” sources: scope, criteria, parameters and key decisions to be made, in order to launch RFPs for supply contracts.
• Ensure alignment with customer contracts i.e. aligned pricing formula between purchases and sales and optimise the current existing energy contracts with suppliers.
• Actively participate in innovative energy or hydrogen production processes and projects, together with cross-functional teams (i.e. non-conventional purchases of energy such as PPA).
• Prepare the RFP documents including evaluation criteria.
• Propose a short list of potential partners and suppliers, with respective strengths and weaknesses.
• Evaluate proposals; prepare & drive negotiation and manage and follow up the contracts.
• Propose hedging strategies, tactics & mechanisms to the Company’s Energy Committee (damage control, short / medium / long-term tunnels, opportunity captures, etc.) participate actively for region with governmental and country-based organisations for Energy topics (e.g. UNIDEN.)

Candidate Profile:

• Master Degree or equivalent.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in Purchasing and Energy management.
• Experience in energy and carbon related projects on relevant European markets (gas, electricity and hydrogen) ideally in the chemical industry.
• Deep experience in implementing energy hedging strategies.
• Deep understanding of energy transition challenges in Europe (regulation)
• Excellent communication and ability to advise and influence.
• Excellent negotiation skills based on facts and figures.
• Strong relationship management skills, able to build relationships with key stakeholders across the business globally.
• Ability to lead projects in a structured and efficient way.
• Capacity to translate strategy/vision into concrete actions.
• Ability to work out business cases based upon short and long term and cost/value/risk concept.
• Fluent English and German essential.

For reasons of better legibility, the simultaneous use of the language forms male, female and diverse (f/m/d) is avoided.  All personal designations apply equally to all genders.

THROUGHOUT 2023 MEET WITH LISTGROVE AT THE FOLLOWING EXHIBITIONS:

Interpack in Düsseldorf, Compounding World in Essen, Kunststoffenbeurs in The Netherlands, Interplas in Birmingham