Strategic Purchasing Manager
Miejsce pracy: Czechowice-Dziedzice
What will be your responsibilities?
- Develop purchasing strategy based on changing market conditions
- Select suppliers and service providers; negotiate contract conditions; check delivered products and services
- Negotiation of the best possible working terms and conditions with current and potential suppliers like prices, bonuses, discounts, scale effects
- Develop effective relationships with vendors, evaluate and manage their performance
- Develop professional relationships with suppliers to enhance flexibility and insight in their product technology which can be used to build and support innovation within conTeyor products
- Identify savings opportunities and deliver savings through tenders, negotiations, contract renewals and implementation of alternative suppliers
- Set conditions for delivery to customers
- Closely cooperate with conTeyor EU to ensure that the supply base of conTeyor fully meets the demands of conTeyor customers regarding costs, flexibility, lead times, innovation, and quality
- Negotiation of specific lead times with Handling Unit subcontractors in case of critical projects
- Responsibility for preparing and updating internal documents such as purchasing regulations, procedures, instructions, etc.
What are the requirements?
- You have professional experience on a similar position in a manufacturing plant
- We expect you to have knowledge of finance, negotiations and operational issues to support the Board in making business decisions
- As an expert in your domain, you have highly developed skills in communication, relationship building and working with partners at all levels of the organization
- You have excellent organizational skills, dynamism and business acumen
- You are goal and result-oriented, able to bring and implement solutions
- You have well-developed negotiation skills
- Fluency in English (written and verbal) is required
- Excellent knowledge of MS Office (PowerPoint, Word, Excel)
- SAP experience is an advantage
- Driving licence cat. B
- Experience in purchasing steel and or steel components – will be an asset
What can conTeyor offer you?
- A unique opportunity to work for an international, innovative and stable company that offers high-quality products and is present in 34 countries across Europe, the United States and South America.
- An environment with a strong company culture based on trust, integrity, and respect for the individual.
- A company that has sustainability in its DNA.
- The chance to use your linguistic skills and to develop your expertise by working with a team of experts in a friendly and professional work environment.
- The opportunity to grow in a global company that can offer international career opportunities
- A stable employment based on a full-time employment contract.
- An attractive base salary with a bonus system and a wide range of fringe benefits :
- Benefits from the Social Benefit Fund (Santa Claus party for the kids of our employees, subsidiaries for holidays, family events bonus such as birth of a child, wedding, allowances for random events).
- Card for snack and beverage vending machines
- Additional benefits (including private medical care, MultiSport card, language classes, group life insurance)
- Employee referral program
- Opportunity to participate to interesting employee initiatives