Do you want to take responsibility and make a difference with your work? With your expertise, we can achieve great goals together. We are WACKER - Reliable. Determined. Ambitious. As one of the world's most research-intensive chemical companies, we've been making countless products that are an integral part of your everyday life possible for over 100 years. From vegan food to resource-efficient buildings to solar cells, we develop sustainable solutions that change the future.

To strengthen our team in **Halle**, at the Procurement department, we are looking for you as a
**Strategic Purchaser (f/m/d)**, initially limited to 24 months.

**Your Tasks**:

- Sourcing, Market Analysis & Early Involvement - Analyse the market to identify procurement risks, opportunities, and market forces to avoid potential exposure or to exploit possible opportunities, whilst ensuring early engagement with cross-functional partners
- Negotiation & Contract Management - Prepare and lead negotiations to obtain highest feasible savings and or process improvement to contribute to productivity targets
- Ensure robust negotiation of commercial terms, KPIs and SLAs to mitigate business risk
- Supplier Management - End to end supplier management process from supplier selection and due diligence, qualification through to relationship and conflict management, supplier development and ongoing evaluation
- Procurement Governance - monitor and manage adherence to Procurement policy and P2P process to ensure high process efficiency and compliance
- Digitalisation Projects - actively contribute to projects and collaborate in work groups to drive transformation and process efficiency using appropriate digital tools

**Your Profil**:

- Successfully completed master’s degrees in business administration or comparable
- Multiannual purchasing experience in an internationally active, manufacturing company (desirable pharma or chemical branch)
- Market knowledge of pharma branch & industry regulations knowledge, including law regulations desirable
- Strong SAP experience, MS Office proficiency
- Very good knowledge of German and English
- Purchasing negotiations experience, strong focus on achieving business objectives
- Communicativeness, and ability to work with cross-functional and cross-national teams

**What do we offer?**Compensation**: Attractive salary, special payments, participation in the company's success, subsidized pension plan, childcare allowance**Work-life balance**: flexible working, 30 days of vacation, additional paid time off for parents with young children, sabbatical**Versatile development opportunities**: Support for professional development, wide range of continuing education opportunities, internal international job exchange**Health**: sports and fitness offers, prevention programs**Other benefits**: Bicycle leasing, subsidized company meals,...and much more. You can find an overview of benefits at WACKER on our careers page.

As an international company, we welcome the diversity of people. We consciously promote equal opportunities and a diverse, inclusive culture in our teams - this is what makes us successful.

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