Strategic Buyer

• Organizes and conducts negotiations with product group specific suppliers;
• Manages and executes the S2C process incl. administration and monitoring of contracts (e.g. quality assurance agreements, non-disclosure agreements, work contracts, framework agreements etc.);
• Establishes comparability between incoming offers and makes the award on this basis;
• Ensures the coordination and harmonization of global/regional procurement activities for the product groups;
• Ensures and reviews the implementation of optimization measures in the respective product group strategy;
• Identifies bundling potential and other cost reduction levers globally/regionally;
• Coordinates the procurement roadmap with cross-divisional commodity management, if necessary;
• Observes and analyzes the national and international procurement market;
• Searches for new suppliers;
• Evaluates incoming supplier applications;
• Defines optimal supplier panels globally/regionally and aligns global/regional supplier (risk) management;
• Implements, monitors and manages strategic goals and tasks for the commodity groups / suppliers;
• Ensures and reviews the implementation of optimization measures in the respective product group strategy.

• German: C1
• English: C1
• Good knowledge of contract law;
• Very good knowledge of MS-Office;
• SAP knowledge: an advantage;
• Successfully completed technical or business studies or comparable training;

• Negotiating skills and convincing communication skills;
• Independent and reliable way of working as well as a sound understanding of numbers;
• Strong communication and conflict management skills, assertiveness and the ability to work in a team;
• Willingness to travel internationally to qualify suppliers;
• Cross-process, entrepreneurial understanding, thinking and acting.

• Several years of professional experience in strategic purchasing in mechanical engineering (desirable);
• Well versed in procurement and supplier management and the associated processes.

Dürr Group