Job description NipponGases is one of the leading companies in the industrial and medical gases business in Europe. Serving over 150,000 customers and 350,000 patients across 13 countries, we offer a comprehensive range of gas-based solutions tailored to sectors including healthcare, food, electronics, manufacturing, chemicals, electronics, and energy among many others. We are a European Procurement Category Manager for our European procurement team. A person who will be responsible for planning and leading all strategic aspects of the categories under their responsibility on a regional level and developing proposals for strategic business decisions. The role provides high-value procurement solutions to the business and category strategies; support third party vendor selection, vendor development, technology management and performance measurement activities to support projects and to realize year-on-year productivity improvements, cost savings, and process improvements in close collaboration with the stakeholders in the business. Main Responsibilities: Planning, organizing, and managing projects considering priorities, resources, budgets, issues and constraints to achieve desired results; defining clear project scope and objectives; utilizing software and tools to plan, track and report status. Mapping the value chain, analyzing it and deriving potential scenarios. Understanding and application of total cost of ownership and cost modelling. Participating in and / or leading financial discussions. Applying financial knowledge to participate actively, e.G., in budgeting process, in sourcing strategies and structuring sophisticated deals with ecosystem partners. Compliance & risk management: supporting reports to determine appropriate compliance level. Monitoring end-to-end compliance (budget,