Join HARMAN as a Category Manager, Direct Materials Procurement in Budapest, Hungary. Work on high-visibility, hands-on role with direct impact on global supply chain and executive decision-making.
Requirements
- Manage end-to-end strategic sourcing and procurement processes
- Define, implement, and refine a global end-to-end procurement strategy
- Lead category strategies for electronics, systems, and mechanical/electromechanical components
- Conduct make-or-buy analysis, cost modeling, BOM teardown, and value engineering
- Oversee NPI sourcing from concept through production
- Identify, qualify, and select suppliers based on capability, cost, risk, and scalability
- Lead pricing, contract, and NRE negotiations
- Drive supplier performance through KPIs and run executive reviews and multi-year development plans
- Maintain a global supply risk framework
- Collaborate with Supplier Quality and Engineering on readiness, PPAP/APQP, and compliance
- Ensure adherence to governance, legal, and regulatory requirements
- Drive productivity pipelines and annual cost improvements
- Apply value engineering, spec optimization, consolidation, should-cost analysis, and supply base optimization
- Optimize total landed cost: logistics, duties, MOQs, tooling, and regional sourcing
- Partner with Engineering and Product teams on design, material choices, and technology roadmaps
- Align category and commodity strategies with future product plans
- Ensure early procurement involvement to validate cost and supply feasibility
- Lead and develop global teams across sourcing, supplier quality, risk, cost engineering, and procurement operations
- Build capabilities in digital procurement, analytics, supplier innovation, and advanced sourcing
- Promote a culture of accountability, transparency, and data-driven decision-making
- Drive adoption of digital procurement tools, automation, analytics, and AI-enabled sourcing
- Enhance procurement maturity with standardization, governance, and category excellence
- Support ESG, sustainability, and responsible sourcing initiatives
Benefits
- Flexible work schedule allowing work from home
- Commuter travel package
- Environment allowance
- Interesting collective health insurance scheme
- Pension
- Employee discounts on world-class HARMAN/Samsung products
