Category Lead Buyer Customer Solutions

As a Category Lead Buyer Customer Solutions, you will drive the global sourcing strategy for customer-specific components and suppliers. You will play a key role in securing supplier performance, optimizing costs, managing risks, and ensuring sustainable supply chain excellence in close collaboration with international stakeholders.

Your job:

- Build, manage, and continuously develop a global supplier portfolio within the Customer Solutions area while ensuring alignment with quality, cost, and delivery objectives

- Develop and implement commodity strategies for assigned categories to support business and procurement goals

- Identify, implement, and monitor sustainable cost reduction initiatives to achieve defined savings targets

- Secure long-term supplier and manufacturing capacities in alignment with business requirements and growth plans

- Drive continuous improvement of supplier quality performance in close collaboration with technical and quality experts

- Integrate supplier performance insights into sourcing decisions and commodity strategies

- Lead sourcing decisions and supplier selection processes for assigned commodity groups

- Manage and support cost optimization, transfer, insourcing, and outsourcing projects while ensuring effective knowledge transfer

- Drive and further develop supplier risk management and contract management processes

- Take full purchasing responsibility for assigned components, commodities, and suppliers

- Monitor global procurement markets, industry trends, and supplier developments to identify opportunities and mitigate risks

Your qualification:

- University degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Economics, Supply Chain Management, or a comparable field

- 3-5 years of professional experience in global purchasing, strategic sourcing, supplier management, project management, or supplier negotiations

- Strong knowledge of global procurement markets, supplier relationship management, industrial manufacturing environments, and production technologies

- Experience in developing and implementing commodity strategies and cost optimization initiatives

- Fluent English skills, both written and spoken, German language skills are an advantage

- Proficiency in ERP systems and Microsoft Office applications, knowledge of SAP S/4HANA is an advantage

- Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills

- Collaborative, proactive, assertive, and solution-oriented mindset with a strong ability to work in international environments

- Willingness to travel internationally up to approximately 20%

What We Offer:

- Competitive compensation and benefits package, including annual bonus, monthly cafeteria allowance, and long-service awards.

- Flexible working arrangements with up to 5 home office days per month.

- Continuous professional development and training opportunities.

- Language learning support.

- On-site fitness center and sports facilities.

- Company restaurant available on-site.

- Secure, covered parking facilities.

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