Re DTC Manager - Purchaser Excellence

Company Description

Since its spin-off in September 2025 AUMOVIO continues the business of the former Continental group sector Automotive as an independent company. The technology and electronics company offers a wide-ranging portfolio that makes mobility safe, exciting, connected, and autonomous. This includes sensor solutions, displays, braking and comfort systems as well as comprehensive expertise in software, architecture platforms, and assistance systems for software-defined vehicles. In the fiscal year 2024 the business areas, which now belong to AUMOVIO, generated sales of 19.6 billion Euro. The company is headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany and has about 87.000 employees in more than 100 locations worldwide.

Job Description

• Develop innovative ideas to achieve material cost savings.
• Organize and lead meetings, workshops, and events to foster innovation.
• Evaluate new ideas in the form of business cases and prioritize based on savings potential and time-to-market.
• Align new ideas with segment responsibles and initiate necessary change processes for implementation.
• Track the implementation of savings initiatives in line with planned timelines.
• Identify and address roadblocks with cross-disciplinary teams to find solutions.
• Escalate delays or risks for high-potential ideas; create backup plans to ensure target fulfillment.
• Maintain close alignment with segments’ change steering functions.
• Provide regular reporting of ReDTC (Responsible Development Total Cost) savings for the current and upcoming two years.
• Organize and manage ReDTC status reviews at the BA-PUR level.
• Participate in and support ReDTC reporting and close-the-gap meetings at Purchasing Board and BA Management levels.
• Regularly review and align the ReDTC process and its responsible functions.
• Represent BA SAM in alignments with ReDTC Managers and controlling representatives of other BAs.
• Identify process and reporting optimization opportunities, evaluate them, and coordinate potential rollouts or updates (including process-CAP updates).
  
  

• Management skills, tools and techniques which ensures a strategic, profit and resulted oriented handling (Balanced Scorecard, Benchmarking, etc.)
• Collaboration skills (team skills, conflict management, open-mindedness, networking)
• Communication skills, including Presentation and Negotiation techniques to operate in different cultures
• Problem solving and decision making tools and techniques
• Project management skills, tools and techniques
• Purchasing Management (including standards of Quality system requirements, policies and norms
• Risk Management
• Technical understanding of specific components
• Commercial knowledge, includes contract law etc.
• Innovation techniques