Category Buyer | Regensburg | f/m/d (Einkäufer/in)

Working at Schneider Electric – We are your Energy Technology Partner

At Schneider Electric, we are about creating real impact. As your partner for energy technology, we empower you through electrification, automation, and digital intelligence to make the energy transition possible and sustainable. When you join us, you will become part of inclusive, collaborative teams that transform ambitious goals into tangible results for customers and society.

Your work ensures that buildings, data centers, factories, infrastructures, and power grids function more intelligently, safely, and environmentally friendly. Every project contributes to a larger mission, and every role contributes to progress that truly matters. Here, you have room to grow, support for innovations, and the chance to actively shape a resilient and sustainable future.

As a Plant Procurement Manager (f/m/d), you will take on a key role, actively shaping the procurement strategy of a strategically important plant and significantly driving growth, resilience, and competitiveness. Together, we work every day on a more sustainable future – perhaps soon together with you. Apply now for the Regensburg location and become an IMPACT Maker at Schneider Electric.

All important information for you at a glance:

• When and where? Immediately in Regensburg
• Vacation: 30 days/year
• Weekly hours: 35
• Your contact person? Franziska Ludwig, Talent Acquisition Business Partner

Your IMPACT:

• Strategy: Shape the further development of one of our most important product groups and support the transition from local to global supplier structures.
• Responsibility: Take on strategic management of selected suppliers and independently manage important purchasing and development topics.
• Negotiation: Conduct price, contract, and business review discussions and create sustainable added value for Schneider Electric.
• Transformation: Actively drive projects such as supplier changes, Value Engineering, and cost optimizations.
• Partnership: Together with suppliers, develop innovative, digital, and sustainable solutions for the future.
• Collaboration: Work closely with international teams from Purchasing, Supply Chain, Quality, and Engineering.

Our Offer:

• A job with a future: With us, you can plan your career long-term and develop according to your own wishes
• Innovation: We don't just work at the pulse of the times – we shape it
• Together into the future: You take responsibility for your area of tasks and make an active contribution to the energy and technology transition!
• Development: We promote your further development through regular feedback discussions and training
• Work-Life-Balance: Our offers include, among others, subsidies for public transport tickets, Hansefit offers, Corporate Benefits, or the employee stock program

Your Profile:

• Qualification: You have successfully completed a degree in the field of Supply Chain Management, Purchasing, Industrial Engineering, Business Administration, or a comparable discipline.
• Experience: You bring professional experience in strategic purchasing, Category Management, or Supplier Management.
• Negotiation skills: You convince through a confident appearance as well as strong communication and negotiation skills.
• Analytical skills: You think strategically, work data-based, and derive sound decisions from them.
• Technical understanding: You are interested in technical products and manufacturing processes and can understand technical contexts.
• Initiative: You take responsibility, actively drive changes, and move confidently in an international environment.

Your next step? Apply online, of course!

Apply now, even if you do (not yet) meet all the requirements. We look forward to getting to know you! Please upload your CV including certificates and salary expectations.

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