Project Buyer

**Creating passion: your responsibilities**:

- Project responsibility for the purchasing department as part of the product development process
- Application and realisation of internal calculations on the basis of development and customer parts lists
- Placing enquiries with existing and new suppliers
- Negotiating material prices for project requirements and the start of series production
- Continuous evaluation and monitoring of material costs during the project
- Identifying procurement risks in the project and initiating countermeasures
- Support with supplier and customer audits (product and process audits)
- Conception and implementation of cost reduction programmes for customer projects in cross-functional teams
- Identification, selection and development of new suppliers in close cooperation with project teams and strategic purchasing
- Procurement of samples and new parts including planning of preventive quality assurance and safeguarding of series start-ups
- Responsibility for the supplier APQP process in the project
- Interface with the department heads to ensure effective communication and collaboration

**Contributing your strengths: your qualifications**:

- Successfully completed studies in business administration with additional technical qualifications, engineering with additional commercial qualifications or industrial engineering
- Relevant professional experience in strategic purchasing/project purchasing
- Successful collaboration in project teams and sound knowledge of project management
- Very good written and spoken English skills
- Willingness to travel occasionally, about 10% of working time
- Strong negotiation skills and powers of persuasion
- Strong analytical mindset and the ability to understand and analyse complex interrelationships

**Our commitment to you: your benefits**:
We offer you an exciting and secure job in a globally successful family business.

You can also expect various social benefits from a modern company as well as fair remuneration:

- Collegial cooperation and uncomplicated collaboration with colleagues and business partners
- Creative freedom for innovative solutions
- Individual development and training opportunities
- Fair, performance-related remuneration including special payments in line with collective agreements
- Good work-life balance - with 30 days' vacation, flexible working hours with the option of mobile working
- Various social benefits such as a company pension scheme, company restaurant, travel allowance
- Employee benefits & discounts, e.g. for leisure and sports, shopping, refueling and much more

**One Passion. Many Opportunities.**

**The company**:
Liebherr-Electronics and Drives GmbH is part of the international Liebherr Group. At two sites, Lindau and Biberach (airfield), the company develops and manufactures high-quality components and systems for the Group as well as for external customers. The fields in which the company is active include electric drive systems, electronics and control technology. In addition, Liebherr-Electronics and Drives GmbH offers its customers an extensive range of services - from development and production to qualification. About a quarter of the approximately 1000 employees work in research and development.

**Location**:
Liebherr-Electronics and Drives GmbH

Peter-Dornier-Straße 11

88131 Lindau

Germany (DE)

**Contact**:
Julia Wohlhüter