Senior Strategic Purchaser (m/f/d)

Your tasks:
This position is responsible for the perfect procurement of raw materials, e.g. strips, sheet metal, tubes made from aluminum, copper stainless steel, for our production from a TCO perspective. Cross-functional and cross-regional coordination of processes and specialized topics around purchasing considering quality, safety, effectiveness and efficiency falls within your scope.

• Ensure an optimal supply of goods in terms of quality, cost, and timely availability
• Implement cost and market analysis as baseline of commodity strategies with a clear focus on material cost optimization under total cost of ownership and saving potential
• Negotiate and create legally secure global contracts
• Manage a functional interface for effective and efficient cross-company processes throughout purchasing
• Tracking of activities in order to take action in case of deviations to ensure targets achievements
• Strategic planning and execution of tenders for market transparency
• Develop TCO price comparisons for cost transparency
• Coordination of procurement for joint decision with our sites (category coordinator tasks) as a Teamleader

Your skills

With this knowledge you will strengthen our team.

• Bachelor or master’s degree Commercial / Technical education
• Profound professional experience as strategic purchaser/buyer in the metal goods sector at an international steel and metal distribution center or metal processing company or AutomotiveExcellent expertise in contract negotiations
• In-depth knowledge of contracts and experience in drafting framework agreements
• Leadership skills
• Proactive thinking and target motivated
• Good IT skills (MS Office, e.g. Excel, ERP system)
• Fluent Business English, spoken and written

What we offer

You can look forward to a secure job with an internationally successful company that is at the cutting edge of refrigeration and air conditioning technology.

• An open corporate culture and a dynamic and challenging environment
• Exciting projects with creative freedom, short decision-making paths and team spirit
• Opportunity to travel to the construction site to gather all relevant technical details of the application

Have we sparked your interest?
We are looking forward to receiving your application. Your data will of course be treated confidentially.
If you have any questions, please contact Kağan Brinkwirth: kagan.brinkwirth@guentner.com
Visit our Kununu profile and leave a review of the recruitment process.
Here you can find a short video about sustainability at Güntner.