Purchaser (m/f/d) (Educator)

Company Description

KNDS Deutschland develops, manufactures, and supports a wide-ranging product portfolio as a systems house. 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 industry for military land systems 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

• You support the Lead Buyer in their strategic tasks
• You are responsible for implementing the agreed goals, specifically taking supply security and product quality into account
• Your main tasks include checking requirements and initiating and managing tenders
• You create inquiries and purchase orders
• Another focus is conducting national procurement market research
• You support the establishment of strategic supplier relationships, including through the search, selection, and, if necessary, qualification of suitable suppliers with the assistance of your supervisor
• You are responsible for preparing, independently conducting, and following up on negotiations with suppliers and reviewing the content
• You handle coordination with project procurement and cross-functional teams
• You create requirement analyses and offer matrices
• You identify cost reduction potentials and implement them

What you bring

• You have a successfully completed degree in technical, business, or legal studies, or completed vocational training as a Fachkaufmann für Einkauf und Logistik or comparable
• Ideally, you have initial professional experience in procurement and possess good knowledge of contract law and a legal mindset
• You bring very good SAP and Microsoft Office skills as well as fluent English skills; another foreign language is an advantage
• You also bring a high willingness to travel and a confident manner
• A high degree of negotiation and assertiveness, as well as strong communication skills and teamwork, round off your profile

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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