Do you negotiate with passion and confidence and navigate international procurement markets with ease? Are you drawn to taking on strategic responsibility for key product categories? Do you enjoy identifying the most effective ways to reduce costs sustainably while ensuring excellent quality in collaboration with suppliers? Then join us in shaping the future of Leister and take on a leadership role in our SCM division.
Your tasks
- Overall responsibility for defined product groups, including the development of product group strategies
- Conducting global market and competitive analyses, as well as monitoring trends and prices
- Identifying international suppliers, conducting negotiations, and establishing long-term partnerships
- Monitoring and evaluating supplier performance, as well as actively managing risk
- Identifying cost-saving opportunities with internal partners and conducting make-or-buy analyses
- Systematic use of key performance indicators to reduce TCO and promote continuous improvement and best-practice approaches
Your Profile
- Basic technical training with advanced training in business administration or supply chain management (SCM) at the FH/HF level
- Excellent technical, mechanical, and plastics-related expertise
- Several years of professional experience in strategic and international procurement at an industrial company
- Strong methodological knowledge of category management
- Outstanding negotiation skills and intercultural competence, with a proven track record
- Excellent written and spoken German and English
- Experience with SAP S/4HANA and procurement platforms is a plus
What you can expect
- A strategic role with plenty of creative freedom—here, you can make a difference
- A market-leading, international company with a clear strategy for the future, located in the idyllic canton of Obwalden
- Support for continuing education and opportunities for personal and professional development
- Attractive benefits, including free parking with electric charging stations, showers for athletes, and more
Note for Recruitment Agencies
For this position, we are only accepting direct applications. Unfortunately, we cannot consider inquiries from recruitment agencies or headhunters.
Do you negotiate with passion and confidence and navigate international procurement markets with ease? Are you drawn to taking on strategic responsibility for key product categories? Do you enjoy identifying the most effective ways to reduce costs sustainably while ensuring excellent quality in collaboration with suppliers? Then join us in shaping the future of Leister and take on a leadership role in our SCM division.
Your tasks
- Overall responsibility for defined product groups, including the development of product group strategies
- Conducting global market and competitive analyses, as well as monitoring trends and prices
- Identifying international suppliers, conducting negotiations, and establishing long-term partnerships
- Monitoring and evaluating supplier performance, as well as actively managing risk
- Identifying cost-saving opportunities with internal partners and conducting make-or-buy analyses
- Systematic use of key performance indicators to reduce TCO and promote continuous improvement and best-practice approaches
Your Profile
- Basic technical training with advanced training in business administration or supply chain management (SCM) at the FH/HF level
- Excellent technical, mechanical, and plastics-related expertise
- Several years of professional experience in strategic and international procurement at an industrial company
- Strong methodological knowledge of category management
- Outstanding negotiation skills and intercultural competence, with a proven track record
- Excellent written and spoken German and English
- Experience with SAP S/4HANA and procurement platforms is a plus
What you can expect
- A strategic role with plenty of creative freedom—here, you can make a difference
- A market-leading, international company with a clear strategy for the future, located in the idyllic canton of Obwalden
- Support for continuing education and opportunities for personal and professional development
- Attractive benefits, including free parking with electric charging stations, showers for athletes, and more
Note for Recruitment Agencies
For this position, we are only accepting direct applications. Unfortunately, we cannot consider inquiries from recruitment agencies or headhunters.