Buyer
Buyer (m / f / d) Neuenburg, Switzerland
The company is a worldwide partner for advanced automation solutions. They are committed to delivering the best assembly systems and all needed services throughout their product’s entire life cycle.
With their extensive engineering know-how, complex process expertise, scalable platforms, and lifelong support they are driving lasting success for their clients businesses.
Your main tasks
Essential Duties & Responsibilities :
In this role you will ensure the SRM follow-up (Scoring Business Review, Performance Reporting...), on a dedicated supplier family, direct and indirect purchases.
- Be the main point of contact for supplier interactions
- Lead and participate in negotiation sessions with suppliers
- Prepare, implement, and verify compliance of appropriate contracts
- Perform data analysis on suppliers, market, costs, prices of goods and services of suppliers using available data
- Assess risks and align with project managers on acceptable risk levels
- Carry out periodic supplier audits / assessments and visits, and provide feedback to purchasing managers
- Optimize and improve purchasing processes
- Based on dedicated KPIs, carry out regular activity reporting
Your profile
Education and experience :
Purchasing background with initial experience in purchasing (industrial purchasing an asset)
Languages :
Excellent knowledge of German (C1 minimum), good knowledge of English (B2 minimum), knowledge of French advantageous
Qualities :
- Excellent knowledge of ERP (SAP an advantage) and MSOffice tools
- Excellent negotiation and communication skills
- Methodical, analytical, and organized
- Ability to take initiative, and set priorities
- Ability to work both as part of a team, and independently to achieve common goals
- Ability to develop profitable solutions with external partners
- Open-mindedness
What they offer
- The opportunity to take on a variety of challenges and to participate in the continuous improvement of an international company focused on the market and customer satisfaction in a constantly changing technical environment
- The opportunity to work in multi- disciplinary teams
- Possibilities to progress within a company that is attentive to the continuous training needs of its employees
- An international, modern, multicultural, friendly, and dynamic environment
