- Employment contract
- Extensive benefits package (details to follow soon)
- Working with a new production company in the market
- Opportunity to build the company from scratch
- Being responsible for the development of our purchasing strategy
- Strong cooperation with our purchasing team at headquarters in Germany
- Built up a local sourcing strategy in cooperation with German headquarter team
- Implement purchasing policy and procedures
- Research and benchmark market for key purchasing categories
- Negotiate contracts, agreements and benchmark offers
- Analyze spendings by category, follow KPI’s and develop plans for cost improvements
- Strong cooperation with our product development department in terms of sourcing strategy for new products and for engineering changes
- Strong cooperation with our quality department in terms of quality suppliers’ assurance
- Strong cooperation with supply chain to integrate logistic models into sourcing strategies
- Preparation of decision documents
- Budget planning and material cost change planning for the self-negotiated suppliers and material groups
- Management of complaint processes together with SQM and initiation of commercial clarification with the suppliers
- Support of replenishment process in case of escalation of missing parts or delivery problems
- Coordination of product changeovers (phase-in/phase-out) internally and with suppliers
- Development of own targets and compliance with target agreements
- Experience as a buyer in a purchasing department of a producing company
- Technical, commercial or financial educational background
- High negotiation skills proofed by certificates or experience
- Technical understanding
- High organizational skills
- Team player
- Expert knowledge in MS Office package
- Fluent in written and spoken English
- Capability to assess legal, technical and commercial parts of contracts and offers
Employment agency entry number 47
this job offer is intended for people over 18 years of age
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