Team Leader: Operational Purchasing 90-100%

You take responsibility for operational purchasing and actively shape processes – hands-on, solution-oriented and close to the business. Together with your team, you ensure smooth material supply, strong supplier partnerships and smart processes. You combine overview with drive and make purchasing noticeably effective.

• Professional and disciplinary leadership of the purchasing team with close proximity to daily business
• Ensuring timely supply of direct and indirect materials
• Controlling, optimising and pragmatically further developing purchasing processes and systems
• Building and maintaining reliable supplier relationships as well as confident handling of bottlenecks and escalations
• Close, solution-oriented collaboration with production, logistics, engineering and controlling
• Creating key figures and reports as well as ensuring quality, compliance with guidelines and efficiency

• Completed commercial or technical training with further education in purchasing/supply chain as well as several years of experience in operational purchasing (ideally industry)
• Experience in leading a team and enjoyment in developing your employees both professionally and personally
• High initiative, pronounced implementation strength and enjoyment in actively tackling things
• Structured, solution-oriented and independent working style with assertiveness as well as strong communication and team skills
• Very good ERP knowledge (e.g. SAP) as well as German as mother tongue and good English

• A responsible and varied position with the opportunity to design and further develop our purchasing processes
• Working in a globally operating company with flat hierarchies and short decision-making paths
• A collegial and supportive team that values shared success
• Flexible working models and home office options
• A pension fund with attractive retirement plans