Purchasing Analyst Direct Raw Material

Beckman Coulter Life Sciences’ mission is to empower those seeking answers to life’s most important scientific and healthcare questions. With a legacy spanning 80+ years, we have long been a trusted partner to our customers, who are working to transform science and healthcare with the next groundbreaking discovery. As part of our team of more than 2,900 associates across 130 countries, you’ll help drive our vision of accelerating answers—and our commitment to excellence.

Beckman Coulter Life Sciences is one of 10 Life Sciences companies of Danaher. Together, we accelerate the discovery, development and delivery of solutions that safeguard and improve human health.

Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, Aachen is looking for a Purchasing Analyst Direct Raw Material (f/m/d) to create & manage POs for direct raw materials. The role would require an understanding of PO process, creation, approvals and follow up. The associate would be in charge of maintaining the POs and ensuring we meet our inventory and service level target working with all the different department and stakeholder involved such as strategic procurement, suppliers, production etc.

This position offers a fixed-term contract with the potential to extend or transition to a permanent contract after one year.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Purchase Order creation and approval.
• Vendor Follow ups regarding shipments, ensuring on-time delivery for POs.
• Manage the inventory level and ensure we execute the PO process to optimize inventory strategy.
• Ensure the availability of the raw material at any time for production used.
• Investigate the reason for the overstock/stock out and proposed short term and long term correction actions.
• Partnering with our global procurement team to work on inventory reduction opportunities and supply chain improvement.
• Support in DBS continuous improvement as per role demand.
• On time KPI updating for bowlers.

Education and/or Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree/Master’s degree in with 2+ years of experience in procurement preferably in manufacturing industry.
• Experience working with ERP system such as Oracle or SAP.
• Excellent communication skills in both spoken and written German and English.

Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.

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