**Procurement Manager** **Location: Zreče** **Application closing date: 15.08.2025** **Role overview** You will be responsible for the plant procurement performance, leaning on the regional commodity buyers team for direct material, managing local requirements and suppliers for subcontracting, leading Indirect material buyers and Supplier Quality activities, and ensuring a robust VAVE process, follow up and implementation at plant level. **Key Responsibilities** + **Procurement:** You will achieve specific procurement goals within area of responsibility. May also involve working to improve established procurement procedures. + **Buying** : Negotiate with vendors on product assortment and price. Involves working either on a small to medium category of products, merchandise, or services or on specified products and services within a large category. + **Contract Requirements** : You will identify contract requirements and write specifications for a medium-sized portfolio or area of the business for existing contracts and/or new contracts. + **Contract Management** : You will deliver required outcomes by managing day-to-day relationships with contract service providers while working within an established contract management plan. + **Local Category Management** : Deliver specific category goals within a category plan/program in line with the organizations’ purchasing/procurement and/or sales strategy. + **Budgeting:** Deliver a budget for an area of the organization or conduct complex analyses on budget progress in other areas of the organization. + **Leadership and Direction** : Communicate the local action plan; explain how this relates to the function's strategy and action plan and to the broader organization's mission and vision; motivate people to achieve local business goals. + **Sourcing** : Collect and analyze the key cost drivers, market dynamics and issues, areas of innovation, and alternative suppliers for a medium-risk area with some alternatives and medium costs to change, in consultation with relevant functions to provide solid market information for decision-making. + **Stakeholder Engagement** : Respond to personal objectives and use performance management systems to improve personal performance; or monitor the performance of the team, allocate work and review completion, take appropriate corrective action to ensure timeliness and quality, and contribute to formal individual performance management and appraisal. + **Organizational Capability Building** : Use the organization's formal development framework to identify the team's individual development needs. Plan and implement actions to build their capabilities. Provide training or coaching to others throughout the organization in own area of expertise to enable others to improve performance and fulfill personal potential. + **Operational Compliance** : Maintain and renew a deep knowledge and understanding of the organization's policies and procedures and of relevant regulatory codes and codes of conduct, and ensure own work adheres to required standards. Or identify, within the team, patterns of noncompliance with the organization's policies and procedures and with relevant regulatory codes and codes of conduct, taking appropriate action to report and resolve these and escalating issues as appropriate. + **Functional Strategy Formation** : Contribute to the formation of one or more elements of functional strategy through specialist expertise and insights, to ensure that the strategy meets business needs. **Qualifications & Skills needed to succeed in this role:** + **Experience:** Experience in procurement management for over 3 years + **Education:** Bachelor's Degree + **Language Skills:** Proficient in English **Skills:** + **Costing and Budgeting** : Works without supervision and provides technical guidance when required on costing, budgeting and finance tasks. + **Negotiation** : Uses comprehensive knowledge and skills to negotiate independently while providing guidance and training to others on how to help the organization by obtaining consensus between two or more internal or external parties who may have different interests. + **Contract Management** : Applies comprehensive knowledge to independently supervise the construction of assigned properties according to instructions, while providing guidance and training to others. + **Review and Reporting** : Works without supervision and provides technical guidance when required on reviewing and creating relevant, lucid and effective reports. + **Supplier Management** : Uses comprehensive knowledge and skills to act independently while guiding and training others on managing vendors so that they deliver the best possible results given available resources + **Planning and Organizing** : Works without supervision and provides technical guidance when required on planning, organizing, prioritizing and overseeing activities to efficiently meet business objectives. + **Policy and procedures** : Works without supervision and provides technical guidance when required on developing, monitoring, interpreting and understanding policies and procedures, while making sure they match organizational strategies and objectives. + **Project Management** : Works without supervision while providing technical guidance when required on managing projects and/or programs within desired cost, time and quality parameters. **Why Join Us?** Joining our team as a **Procurement manager** means stepping into a world of innovation, precision and purpose. If you are passionate about procurement, eager to learn and ready to make a real impact, we are the right place for you! We provide a competitive compensation and benefits package, including: + **Attractive Salary and Benefits** : Competitive pay, competitive annual holiday bonus + **Career Growth** : Opportunities for long-term career development and professional growth in a stable company. + **Advanced Certificate as a Socially Responsible Employer** + **Industry Leadership** : Join a market-leading company with strong potential for ongoing growth. + **Employee events, team – building activities** + **Structured onboarding and mentorship program** **NOTE: Please submit your resume in English** because we are an international environment, and English is our business language. GKN Driveline provides equal employment and affirmative action opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, age, genetic information, pregnancy, or disability.