Alfred Kärcher SE & Co. KG | Germany | 70xxx, 71xxx Winnenden, Region Stuttgart | Permanent position | Full time / Home office | Published since: 10.03.2026 on stepstone.de
Senior Strategic Category Lead – Global Production Materials (m/f/d)
As the world's leading supplier of cleaning technology, we stand for quality, innovation and sustainability. We owe this success to our employees and the unique Kärcher-WOW feeling. At Kärcher, a 15.330-strong team in 80 countries is working together to make the world clean. As a sustainable family business, we are convinced that we need to maintain important things, so that it exists in the long term and that its value is maintained in the future. This applies to our own home as well as to our environment, our coexistence, our business environment, our historical heritage or our tradition. We are looking for doers and preservers and go to work with passion. Because we want to make a difference in the world, we are always looking for new solutions. Every WOW, whether huge or tiny, is exceptional and unique - just like you! We also want to create and maintain values: for our employees, our customers and the company. In our Kärcher campus we teach practical know-how. We offer WOW solutions worldwide for cleaning and care. And for our (future) employees we offer WOW-tastic career prospects, a trusting working environment and great colleagues. So if you are willing to introduce your real strengths and your enthusiasm if you want to live out your now-let'-ees-us-doch-one-simplified-testing thing - then you are ready to go the “way of WOW” at Kärcher. Together we can provide more WOW and make the world a little cleaner. We are the Kärchers. Wanna WOW with us? Together towards a clean world. .
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Your tasks • Your profile • What we offer
This will be your WOW moments: In this key position you are not only administrators, but the architect of our global purchasing strategy. You take responsibility for your production material cluster and control our activities with cool head and strategic vision. Strategy with bite! You develop and implement high-performed cluster and supplier strategies that secure the decisive lead in international competition.
You certainly navigate through the complexity of the Asian procurement markets. With a deep market understanding and an excellent sense of cultural nuances, you can unlock potentials in China and Southeast Asia that others overlook.
As a tactical head, your international team will guide you professionally to best performances. You set the standards for efficient supplier management and ensure that processes not only run, but perform.
You're a final professional! Whether bundling massive volumes or tough price negotiations – you know exactly when you build pressure and how to get the maximum for our company.
You design a resilient and high-quality supplier network. By entering into strategic, long-term contracts, you will ensure our quality and optimize the cost structure in a sustainable manner.
It would be WOW if you brought this here: A completed study (e.g. BWL, Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering) or a comparable training.
Multiannual professional experience in the national and international purchase of production material, especially on the Asian market.
Very good knowledge of IT and SAP (experience with SAP Ariba is a plus).
German and English knowledge (C1/C2).
Impressed negotiating skills and persuasiveness.
Detectional experience in the professional leadership of international teams and very good coordination skills.
An entrepreneurial mindset as well as a structured, result-oriented and process-affinity.
readiness for occasional national and international travel.
Our Kärcher WOW package: Flexible design of everyday life: optional work time or sliding time and the possibility to work in the home office day by day.
In order to be able to look into a secure WOW future, we pay an annual contribution to the occupational pension scheme for all employees, which you can additionally increase by individual contributions.
Enough time to see family, friends and the world: up to 32 days vacation. On Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve you have free.
Small dream-filling aids: Jubilee allowances for all who stay long in our team, target premiums and other special payments.
The right people, at the right time, in the right place, with the right perspective: Sounds complicated? Not for us. We support you in your individual development with our talent management process and an extensive training offer.
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Location
 | Alfred Kärcher SE & Co. KG | |
| 47226 Winnenden, Region Stuttgart | ||
| Germany |
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