Plant Purchaser

**Mission**:
We have a fantastic opportunity in our Purchasing Team based in Neuwied, Germany. You are responsible for and coordinate the necessary procurement for some smaller plants in Germany to ensure timely and smooth production. In your role, you work closely with the plant managers. This also depends on your willingness to travel. You report directly to the Purchsing Director EMEA.

**Responsibilities**:

- Contact person for the plant managers for all procurement issues for the plants in Neuwied and Mannheim
- Responsible for quality management for suppliers including monitoring based on key figures
- Purchasing support for OPEX/CAPEX projects from all plants
- Recording purchasing requirements and selecting new suppliers including contract negotiations
- Organizing and conducting standards reviews with selected suppliers
- Close cooperation with the national category managers of the purchasing organization and development of local purchasing synergies
- Analysis, tracking and reporting of key figures (e.g. savings)
- Collaboration with colleagues from other plants in the implementation of purchasing strategies

**Requirements**:

- Bachelor's degree or commercial vocational training with additional training in purchasing
- Several years of experience as a buyer in an industrial environment or for production plants
- Strong negotiation and communication skills
- Knowledge of using SAP R/3 is welcome
- Experience in using MS Office or Google Workspace (Sheets, Slides, Docs)
- Due to communication with international colleagues, good English skills are necessary
- Willingness to travel on business

The Plant Purchasing Manager will ensure the operational continuity of the different sites

within his/her perimeter.
- Play an active role in continuous improvement of process and strategy

o Be the single point of contact to the plant managers of the designated sites

o Gather local purchasing requirements, anticipate collect and optimize the site

requirements in terms of quantity and specifications

Created 2020 - Plant Purchasing Manager

o Ensure internal customer satisfaction with the performance of the purchasing team

o Entry point for purchasing project requests

o Supplier quality management

o Close collaboration with supply chain and procurement
- Responsible for the deployment of global /regional category management policy

o Work closely with the regional category managers

o Ensure compliance with purchasing strategy and policy at site level

o Organise and Coordinate local trials with the suppliers selected by the category

managers

o Lead new purchasing initiatives at cross cluster or at country level on a case by case

basis.
- Responsibility for local purchases

o Responsible for the local purchase Opex/Capex

o Support deployment of larger capex on his/her sites

o Frequent local presence in the different sites of his/her perimeter

o Sourcing new suppliers and negotiating contracts

o Propose and manage local purchase synergies

o Monitoring of supplier performance and KPI

o Reporting and analysis, collect and report data on financial performance and tracking

of savings

Reservation

The

Training Professional purchasing qualification or training.

Good working knowledge of English and German

Experience A minimum 3 years experience in a purchasing environment

Additional

qualification

Other Skills

Experience of drafting contracts, terms and conditions.

Proven experience in working across functions to provide prompt and

effective service.

Leadership, problem solving, interpersonal, communications planning team

participation skills

Highly motivated and proactive driver of change

Strong negotiation and communication skills both internally and externally

Confident decision maker

Ability to link business need to purchase strategy

Understand and actively promote the purchasing cycle

Ability to support and champion the development and introduction of

effective purchasing methods and tools