Aarau
Responsible Person for Business Coordination and Contract and Supplier Management
- 02 November 2026
- 80 – 100%
- Permanent position
- German (Fluent)
About the job
General Secretariat BVU
We are looking for a...
Responsible Person for Business Coordination and Contract and Supplier Management
Exciting tasks await:
- Interface function: You work closely with the Deputy Secretary-General, the responsible offices in the departments, controlling, IT, accounting, legal department, information security and other specialist offices to ensure a smooth flow of information. In handling the business, you keep an overview, ensure orderly processes and skilfully clarify any discrepancies found.
- Strategic planning: You are responsible for up-to-date business planning and always keep an eye on deadlines, dependencies and milestones for the business.
- Digitalisation & Innovation: You drive forward digital business planning, identify and realise optimisation potentials and coordinate innovations in the application together with external partners.
- Contract and supplier management: You actively build up and manage contract and supplier management for the entire department and continuously identify optimisation potentials.
- Process responsibility: You define roles and processes and subsequently lead the procurement of a new contract management tool. You take on the professional support of this tool.
What you bring:
- Completed studies: You have a degree from a university of applied sciences, preferably in law, or a university, preferably in legal sciences. A degree in political science, business administration, business informatics or similar is also conceivable. You can draw on sound practical experience in contract negotiations or a similar environment and ideally have work experience in the public administration.
- Organisational talent: A structured way of working, skilful balancing of interests with a view to the entire department, quality awareness and the ability to plan projects purposefully characterise you.
- Communication skills: You communicate appropriately for the target audience, move confidently in a complex environment (politics/administration) and convince through negotiation skills as well as a high customer orientation.
- Willingness to learn: You enjoy your further development and are willing, if not already done, to complete specific further training in contract or supplier management (e.g. CAS or intensive seminar).
- IT affinity: You are proficient in handling IT applications and are familiar with Microsoft365. You bring the necessary curiosity to implement and support new tools.
Benefits
We offer flexible working options, a wide range of further training and attractive social benefits. You can find all our benefits at ag.ch/personal.
Your working environment
In the Department of Construction, Transport and Environment, we actively develop the diverse living space of Aargau in the areas of spatial planning, energy, environment and mobility – today and for future generations.
In the General Secretariat , we support the head of the department as well as the departments in the areas of business, personnel, finance and accounting, IT, communication and general administrative tasks.
Contact
For professional enquiries, please contact Murielle Zeltner, Deputy Secretary-General, 062 835 32 21.
For questions about the application process, Michaela Pfister, Head of HR BVU, 062 835 32 06, will be happy to assist you.
We look forward to receiving your online application.