Senior Buyer (m/f/d) (Purchasing Specialist)

Company Description

As a system house, KNDS Deutschland develops, manufactures, and supports a wide-ranging product portfolio. This includes main battle tanks, highly protected wheeled vehicles, artillery systems, military bridges, customer service, and training solutions. As part of the KNDS Group, we represent the beginning of the consolidation of the military land systems industry in Europe. In doing so, we offer highly interesting, complex, and challenging activities in a collegial environment. This is what our employees appreciate, whether in development, manufacturing, or administration. We successfully combine innovation with tradition and many years of experience.

What to Expect

• As a Senior Buyer, you are responsible for representing purchasing interests internally and shaping the project-related purchasing strategy
• You take over internal project coordination for purchasing, are a member of the core project team, and participate in project meetings
• You identify procurement-relevant potentials and risks within the project
• Another exciting part of your activity is project controlling and reporting regarding purchasing activities
• You initiate Make or Buy decisions
• You are responsible for passing on project-relevant information to material procurement and procurement-relevant information to project management
• You support the selection and supervision of subcontractors in coordination with the responsible Lead and Local Buyers
• Furthermore, you create inquiry and contract templates in coordination with the legal counsel in purchasing
• Obtaining project-relevant documents, such as performance descriptions or Q-conditions, is also part of your tasks
• Preventing Maverick Buying rounds off your activities

What You Bring

• You have a successfully completed degree in technical, business administration, or legal fields with several years of specialist professional experience, or a comparable qualification with at least 4 years of relevant professional experience in purchasing
• You possess very good communication skills and a structured way of working
• You possess assertiveness
• You have very good SAP and Microsoft Office skills
• Business-fluent English skills round off your profile; additional foreign languages are a plus

Benefits

• Secure employer
• Attractive pay according to the IG-Metall collective agreement
• Daycare subsidy
• Christmas and holiday bonus
• Development opportunities
• 30 days of vacation
• Employee parking
• Bike leasing
• Fitness & health offers
• Company pension scheme
• Canteen
• Flexible flextime regulations
• Subsidy for the Deutschlandticket
• Company doctor
• Corporate Benefits

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