Strategic Buyer (a)

Überblick

Bruker is enabling scientists to make breakthrough discoveries and develop new applications that improve the quality of human life. Bruker’s high performance scientific instruments and high value analytical and diagnostic solutions enable scientists to explore life and materials at molecular, cellular, and microscopic levels. In close cooperation with our customers, Bruker is enabling innovation, improved productivity, and customer success in life science molecular and cell biology research, in applied and pharma applications, in microscopy and nanoanalysis, as well as in industrial applications. Bruker offers differentiated, high-value life science and diagnostics systems and solutions in preclinical imaging, clinical phenomics research, proteomics and multiomics, spatial and single-cell biology, functional structural and condensate biology, as well as in clinical microbiology and molecular diagnostics. Today, worldwide more than 9500 employees are working on this permanent challenge at over 90 locations.

Bruker continues to build upon its extensive range of products and solutions, its broad base of installed systems and a strong reputation among its customers. Being one of the world's leading analytical instrumentation companies, Bruker is strongly committed to further fully meet its customers’ needs as well as to continue to develop state-of-the-art technologies and innovative solutions for today's analytical questions.

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We are currently looking for a Strategic Buyer to join our procurement team.

Workload : 90-100%

Place of work :  Fällanden

Department : Operations

Start of contract : 01. January 2025 or by agreement

Aufgaben / Verantwortlichkeiten

• Build up very strong relations with all business units, supply chain leaders, value chain VPs, plant / production directors, and R&D directors to ensure their expectations are met and to provide access to other decision makers for procurement teams in the markets and plants.
• Develop in-depth knowledge about supply base industry (industry analysis, supply analysis and segmentation, sourcing choice).
• Develop, align with business and implement sourcing strategies.
• Conduct demand analysis with local stakeholders.
• Track and report procurement performance within sub-category.
• Active management of threads / risks and balancing with potentials / opportunities.
• Support the Commodity Managers in procurement topics and represent them on site.
• Provide minimum target annual savings through cost reductions, cost avoidance and operational improvements.
• Find ways to penetrate spend and provide process and expertise to impact that spend.
• Conduct RFI / RFP / RFQ and perform evaluation.
• Prepare supplier selection.
• Establish supplier relationship management.
• Negotiation and contract preparation.
• Perform supplier management and supplier development activities on higher level initiatives and optimization plan.
• Ensure supplier overall compliance and realize supplier liability management.
• Cost Management : Negotiate the lowest total cost of ownership for assigned suppliers. Achieve saving targets according to sourcing strategy. Supplier Management : define and manage business partner, strategic and key supplier relationships to best meet the needs of business. Accountable for the identification, implementation and tracking of continuous improvement initiatives at selected suppliers.
• Product lifecycle management / New Product Development : Support & participate on new product development teams as assigned, helping to ensure early supplier involvement and participate in phase-out / engineering change activities.
• Bruker Supplier Management / Supplier Performance Evaluation : Accountable for achieving improvements in cost, quality, delivery and service.

Qualifikationen

What we offer

Please be aware that for this position, international travel of 20% per year is mandatory.

Help us create innovation with integrity. We look forward to receiving your online application.

Please note that we only accept online applications. Attachments such as motivation letter, resume and references must not exceed 5 MB per file.

Please note that for this position, we won't accept any profiles submitted through agencies.