Continental develops pioneering technologies and services for sustainable and connected mobility of people and their goods. Founded in 1871, the technology company offers safe, efficient, intelligent and affordable solutions for vehicles, machines, traffic and transportation. In 2021, Continental generated sales of €33.8 billion and currently employs more than 190,000 people in 58 countries and markets. On October 8, 2021, the company celebrated its 150th anniversary.

The ContiTech group sector develops and manufactures, for example, cross-material, environmentally friendly and intelligent products and systems for the automotive industry, railway engineering, mining, agriculture and other key industries. Guided by the vision of “smart and sustainable solutions beyond rubber,” the group sector draws on its long-standing knowledge of the industry and materials to open up new business opportunities by combining various materials with electronic components and individual services. 

The Purchasing Data Model Manager owns and steers the global purchasing data landscape, ensuring a reliable, scalable, and future-oriented data foundation for the purchasing organization. In this role, you will collaborate closely with procurement, IT, finance, supply chain, sustainability, and business stakeholders to establish data governance standards, advance data architecture, and enable data-driven decision-making across the organization.

We are looking for a data management expert who combines strong technical expertise with strategic thinking. You will drive the evolution of the Purchasing Data Model, ensure a single source of truth, and support major digitalization initiatives across a complex SAP-based purchasing ecosystem.

In this role, you will help shape the future of SMART Purchasing by creating the data foundation that powers business intelligence, automation, analytics, forecasting, and innovative purchasing solutions on a global scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Data Landscape Ownership: Own and manage the global purchasing data landscape, ensuring accurate integration, consistency, and maintenance across systems.
• Data Architecture: Develop and steer the global purchasing data architecture to enable efficient data management, analytics, and business intelligence capabilities.
• Logical Data Model Ownership: Own and continuously improve the Purchasing Logical Data Model, ensuring alignment with business requirements and digital transformation initiatives.
• Single Point of Data Truth: Drive the realization and maintenance of a single source of truth for purchasing data across the organization.
• Data Integration: Oversee the integration of data from multiple systems and sources into the purchasing data landscape and business warehouse environments.
• Data Governance: Define, implement, and enforce data governance standards, policies, and best practices to ensure high data quality and compliance.
• Data Quality Assurance: Conduct regular audits, identify data discrepancies, and implement sustainable solutions to ensure data accuracy and reliability.
• Digitalization Projects: Integrate and support major purchasing digitalization initiatives, including SAP R/3 and SAP S/4HANA-based purchasing infrastructures.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with procurement, IT, finance, supply chain, sustainability, manufacturing, and business area teams to drive data initiatives and business value.
• System Optimization: Collaborate with IT and procurement teams to improve data management systems, usability, and overall effectiveness.
• Data Literacy: Promote and enhance data literacy across the purchasing organization through training, coaching, and best-practice sharing.
• Compliance: Ensure adherence to company policies, regulations, and legal requirements related to data management and governance.

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Experience: 5-7 years of experience in data management, data governance, data architecture, or a related field.
• Technical Skills: Experience with enterprise data management and governance platforms such as SAP BW, SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), AWS, Azure, Oracle Data Warehouse, or similar technologies.
• Data Management Expertise: Strong understanding of data architecture, data modeling, data governance frameworks, and data quality management.
• Analytical Skills: Ability to analyze complex data sets, identify patterns and relationships, and translate insights into actionable business decisions.
• Problem Solving: Proven capability to identify, assess, and resolve data-related challenges through structured and solution-oriented thinking.
• Project Management: Experience leading projects; knowledge of Agile and Scrum methodologies is beneficial.
• Process Optimization: Ability to embed data-driven improvements into business processes and create measurable value for the organization.
• Strategic Thinking: Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to align data initiatives with long-term organizational objectives.
• Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English, with the ability to collaborate effectively across global stakeholder groups.
• Collaboration: Ability to work independently while building strong partnerships across diverse, international teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working within global purchasing or supply chain environments.
• Experience in cross-functional and international teams.
• Knowledge of purchasing data structures, digital procurement platforms, and SAP-based purchasing ecosystems.
• Experience driving organizational data literacy and data governance programs

What we offer:

The 13-th salary – Paid once a year, in December;
Meal tickets - With a value of 40 Ron;
Private Health Insurance – Health is the most important, so we offer you a medical subscription through Signal Iduna;
Referral bonuses - We encourage colleagues to refer new candidates to us and, at the same time, to get the chance to receive a bonus;
Bookster – Feed your body and your mind. You can borrow books and you’ll receive them at the office;
Sports benefits- It’s important to stay active, so we offer you the 7Card;
Discounts at our partners – We collaborate with different vendors, and we receive discounts for various products/ services like rubbers, restaurants, kindergartens, etc;
System for Rewarding Improvement Ideas – We have an internal improvement program (Continental Idea Management) that gives you the opportunity to come up with ideas and to be honored with an attractive bonus (this is established by the CIM team according to your improvement idea);
Happy days – If you or your child is getting married, or you become a parent, you receive some extra free days;
Life events celebration - If your family is growing, we praise your newborn with a bonus;
Unfortunate events - In case of unhappy events in your life, we support you by offering you free days and financial support (handled on a case by-case basis);
Extra vacation days – You begin with 22 vacation days/year, and starting with the 3rd year with us, we offer you 1 more day of vacation and. We reward employees who reach 15 and 20 years within the company with another day of vacation, reaching a maximum of 29 days.
Professional development - Many opportunities to develop yourself within the company;
Diversity and multicultural mindset - We encourage you to join us no matter who, where, or what you are. We have colleagues from different nations and a variety of languages are spoken in our company.