Global Procurement Lead for Direct Materials

Vor 5 Tagen


Oberkochen, Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland ZEISS Group Vollzeit

About the Role

As a Global Procurement Lead for Direct Materials at ZEISS Group, you will be responsible for ensuring series supply for all MED locations in a specific product group for direct material. This involves continuous price negotiations, development and implementation of procurement strategies in coordination with interfaces, monitoring supplier capacity and taking countermeasures, selection, qualification and support of suitable suppliers together with category management, quotation requests and comparison incl. TCO approach, escalation with suppliers in case of supply issues, development and reporting of purchasing-relevant KPIs, creation and triggering of orders and quantity contracts in and outside of SAP, participation in internal and external audits, participation in improving processes in serial purchasing, and business trips national and international to suppliers and Zeiss locations.

About You

To be successful in this role, you will need to have a completed university degree (e.g. Bachelor) with min. 1 year purchasing experience or commercial education combined with at least 5 years of professional experience in purchasing. You should be fluent in business German and English, and have another foreign language as an advantage. You will also need to have negotiation skills, very good knowledge of SAP-MM, and very good knowledge of MS Office, with purchasing experience with various direct or indirect goods/material, experience in contract negotiation.

Our Team

Our ZEISS Recruiting Team is looking forward to receiving your application.



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