Procurement Specialist

Join our team as a

**Procurement Specialist (f/m/d)**

DEU-Heidenheim

As part of the Indirect Procurement-team, we offer you an exciting and responsible task in a globally active functional area. We offer our employees the opportunity to get involved in interesting tasks in a modern working environment and to grow and develop professionally. If you also bring along enthusiasm for our meaningful product portfolio, we should get to know each other.

**Your area of responsibility**:

- Support of Procurement and Supplier Management for Capex and MRO Categories including the implementation and execution of category strategies
- Supports the execution of projects incl. documentation and analytics
- Perform procurement market research and bring in supplier innovations
- Supports negotiations for material and services and perform contract management analytics
- Benchmarking quotations on TCO basis
- Monitoring KPIs and tracking supplier Performance
- Managing Master Data in SAP and Ariba as well as conducting supplier evaluation and selection in cooperation with the demand carrier and Category Manager

**What we look for**:

- Bachelor or master’s degree in business administration, engineering or similar
- First professional experience in procurement field or related sectors with according responsibility
- Good practice in professional business relationship with suppliers and service providers
- Commercial and negotiation skills, assertiveness, and decision-making ability
- Team player, ideally intercultural competence, and Stakeholder Management experience
- Strong communication skills especially German and fluent English

**Benefits**:

- Stable and continuously growing company with over 200 years of history
- Flexible working conditions, e.g. flexitime or mobile working on a daily basis
- Attractive ways of combining work and family life, e.g. parent-child workroom
- Company pension plan with attractive employer contribution incl. matching model for deferred compensation
- Various employee offers e.g. Corporate Benefits platform and various health and fitness offers, e.g. yoga during lunch break, cooperation with fitness studios, company doctor, massage offers
- Well-developed infrastructure e.g. canteen, parking bays, well-equipped workspaces
- Feedback conversations and resulting training opportunities as well as diverse development opportunities