Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI)
Villigen PSI
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Group Leader Purchasing
- 30 January 2026
- 100%
- Permanent position
- Villigen PSI
Job summary
Join the Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland's largest research hub. Embrace a role that promotes innovation and sustainability.
Tasks
- Lead and develop the procurement group and team effectively.
- Create and enhance procurement strategies and processes.
- Manage complex procurement projects with research departments.
Skills
- Technical or business degree with extensive procurement experience.
- Strong leadership and project management skills required.
- Fluent in German and English, with critical thinking abilities.
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About the job
If you are a strategic thinker, strong communicator, and implementation-oriented personality who enjoys working in a meaningful and future-oriented environment, this position could be your next professional challenge.
For the Paul Scherrer Institute, the largest research institute for natural and engineering sciences in Switzerland, we are looking for a committed and experienced personality who will strategically and operationally shape and further develop purchasing. In this versatile role, you will take responsibility for leading purchasing, maintaining partnership-based supplier relationships, and managing central procurement projects. Together with a cooperative, open team, you will actively contribute to making the organization's procurement processes efficient, transparent, and sustainable.
Your tasks
- Leading the purchasing group and managing the team on a professional, personnel, and organizational level
- Developing and further developing the procurement strategy, governance, and all procurement-relevant processes
- Leading complex procurement projects for capital goods and services in collaboration with research and specialist departments
- Further development and digitalization of purchasing processes with a focus on user-friendliness and internal customer satisfaction
- Conducting central procurements including requirements clarification, market analyses, and tenders according to BÖB/VÖB in German and English
- Sustainable and partnership-based collaboration with selected key suppliers
Your profile
- Ideally a technical or business university degree (e.g., electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, industrial engineering), alternatively a completed commercial or technical basic education (EFZ) and many years of purchasing experience
- Further training with a focus on purchasing (e.g., federally certified purchasing manager) or supply chain management (e.g., MAS SCM)
- Several years of experience in operational and strategic purchasing, ideally in the public or regulated environment
- Several years of experience in leading complex projects and managing employees, ideally in a matrix organization
- Entrepreneurial thinking and ability to critically question structures and implement innovative solutions
- Assertiveness and confident appearance towards internal and external stakeholders
- Native German speaker with solid English skills (B2/C1)
We offer
Our institute is based on interdisciplinary, innovative, and dynamic collaboration. In addition to systematic onboarding, you benefit from individual development opportunities and our pronounced continuing education culture. For concerns regarding the optimal balance of work and family or personal interests, we support you with modern employment conditions and on-site facilities.
For professional inquiries, please contact Dominik Suter, Tel. +41 56 310 24 10.
We look forward to receiving your online application by February 15, 2026 for the position of Group Leader Purchasing.
Please submit your application via the following link, which will take you directly to our partner Procurement: https://zrec.eu/RoFZ7?source=CareerSite
Human Resources Management, Mikela Szolansky, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
