Job Description
Your contribution to something big:
- Strategic purchasing for the assigned indirect material field and region (Source to Contract)
- Provide input to and implement global strategies for the defined material field
- Prepare and execute tenders (RFI / RFQ)
- Design negotiation strategies and conduct negotiations with suppliers
- Prepare purchasing decisions and contractual agreements, especially service contracts
- Build effective relations to internal stakeholders (e.g. human resources departments, travel management, marketing, development departments, others) with the target to ensure early involvement and effective project coordination
- Ensure compliance requirements
- Manage suppliers to ensure timely deliveries and quality compliance, incl. supplier data quality, supplier evaluations, contract management
- Ensure purchasing master data quality and support process efficiency improvements (e.g. automation of ordering processes via electronic catalogues)
- Conduct market analysis to identify market trends, risks and opportunities
Qualifications
What distinguishes you:
- Bachelor’s degree or 3 years’ minimum professional experience in Procurement, Sourcing, Contracts Management or equivalent role
- German and English business fluent
- Strategic and entrepreneurial thinking
- Basic knowledge of the supply chain (logistics, planning, order, etc.)
- Contract and price negotiation
- Project management with the capability to efficiently manage multiple projects
- Effective listening and communication (verbal and written) with stakeholders on various hierarchy levels, good customer orientation and service mindset
- Good cross-functional collaboration and commercial mindset
- Creation of sophisticated but also standard presentations
- Clarity and Accuracy: Checks own work
- Willingness to take responsibility and decisive in time-sensitive situations
- Teamwork: Solicits inputs and encourages others
- Problem-solving and analytical skills. Ability to identify issues, develop solutions & drive results
- Data Analysis - proficiency in Microsoft Office and able to work in a digital environment