Strategic Procurement Manager
Red Bull
Are you passionate about turning complex business needs into smart, value‑driven sourcing strategies and enjoy working at the intersection of media, digital, IT, and marketing?
Join our Strategic Procurement Media team as a Strategic Procurement Manager and become a trusted partner to internal stakeholders, shaping demand, defining sourcing strategies, and driving high‑impact supplier collaborations across the globe.
In this role, you’ll combine sharp commercial acumen with strategic thinking – from leading key negotiations and optimizing supplier portfolios to embedding ESG principles and improving transparency, compliance, and overall value for the business.
Areas that play to your strengths
All the responsibilities we'll trust you with:
Act as a trusted sparring partner to media stakeholders on strategic procurement topics, providing insights and recommendations for fact‑based decisions. Engage early with budget owners, using commercial methodologies, scenario analyses, and structured negotiation approaches to maximize budget value. Collaborate closely with stakeholders to understand business needs, shape procurement strategies, and drive cross‑functional collaboration. Clearly communicate the monetary and non‑monetary value contribution of Strategic Procurement Media and position the function as a strategic, value‑creating partner.
Work closely with stakeholders to identify improvement opportunities and define strategic sourcing initiatives and negotiation plans. Set sourcing objectives, approaches, and negotiation strategies aligned with overall business and category strategies. Lead or contribute to tenders (RFX), cost benchmarking, and supplier negotiations, ensuring transparent, fact‑based decisions. Execute sourcing initiatives in line with established procurement standards, frameworks, and systems.
Embed ESG (environmental, social, governance) requirements into procurement processes, including sourcing and supplier management. Ensure alignment with global guidelines in close cooperation with internal stakeholders. Actively promote ESG principles and ensure initiatives meet high environmental and social responsibility standards.
Drive the implementation of the standard supplier management framework by identifying, qualifying, and developing suppliers in line with media business requirements. Identify opportunities to harmonize and optimize the digital supplier portfolio. Develop and execute supplier strategies, including contract negotiations, performance measurement, due diligence, and risk management. Lead supplier transitions and transformation initiatives and drive innovation across the supplier landscape.
Lead and manage strategic procurement projects end‑to‑end, from scoping and business case development through execution and post‑project review. Steer cross‑functional project teams to ensure alignment on objectives, timelines, and outcomes. Define project structures, milestones, governance models, and success metrics for transparency, accountability, and on‑time delivery. Proactively manage risks, dependencies, and changes, ensuring impact on cost, quality, risk, and continuity of supply is controlled. Ensure measurable value (cost optimization, efficiency, risk mitigation, supplier development) and provide structured updates to senior management.
Analyze procurement, spend, supplier, and performance data to identify cost‑saving, efficiency, risk‑reduction, and value‑creation opportunities. Translate complex data into clear insights and actionable recommendations for sourcing decisions and management reporting. Identify trends and improvement areas in the supply base and processes and proactively propose optimization initiatives. Support projects with fact‑based analyses (business cases, scenarios, benefit tracking) and continuously monitor key procurement KPIs to ensure transparency, value realization, and continuous improvement.
Your areas of knowledge and expertise
that matter most for this role:
- 3+ years’ experience in a similar role, focus on digital products & services, media or indirect procurement would be beneficial
- Excellence negotiation and analytical skills & experience in project and process management
- Understanding of the digital market and state of the art procurement processes
- Advanced level of Microsoft Excel skills and preferably experienced with ERP systems, SAP and Bi knowledge is seen as a plus
- Be a team player, but also have confidence working independently
- Proactive, self-motivated, and able to work on different projects in parallel
- Solution-focused mindset and strong problem-solving thinking to develop innovative and sustainable solutions
- Strong communication and presentation skills; Fluent in English (verbal & written), German is a plus
- Travel 0-10%
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