Strategic Buyer (80 - 100%)

About the job

With foresight and negotiation skills to success!

Do you combine technical understanding with economic foresight and recognise where potentials for efficient and sustainable procurement arise? Do you negotiate skilfully, think strategically ahead, and keep an overview even in complex projects and with different stakeholders?

Then you are exactly right with us! To strengthen our team at the Solothurn location, we are looking for a committed and entrepreneurial-minded person who takes responsibility, sets new impulses, and actively develops our strategic purchasing further. 

Strategic Buyer 80-100%

Your tasks consist of

• Creating and implementing long-term purchasing strategies to secure the company’s competitiveness and identify cost reduction potentials
• Early involvement in product development projects to ensure suitable procurement strategies
• Identification, evaluation, development of strategic suppliers to sustainably improve quality, delivery reliability, costs, supply security, and innovation capability
• Building strategic partnerships with suppliers to secure the best possible innovative solutions considering Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
• Conducting market analyses, identifying trends and new sources of supply to provide the company with innovative and efficient solutions
• Conducting contract negotiations and concluding long-term advantageous agreements for the company
• Close cooperation with other departments (e.g. production, logistics, innovation, finance) to ensure optimal material supply for the company
• Conducting regular risk assessments and developing measures to minimise the risk of supply bottlenecks or quality problems
• Strategic responsibility for the assigned material groups (electronics, electromechanics, fastening technology and external services) as well as regular review of allocation and active master data management
• Supporting make-or-buy decisions through economic and strategic analyses
• Responsible for critical success indicators such as savings, delivery reliability, quality, inventory

You are

• an entrepreneurial-thinking, initiative and strong negotiating personality with pronounced strategic understanding
• independent, structured and solution-oriented and keep an overview even in complex situations
• communicative, convincing and possess high social competence
• a proactive team player with analytical thinking and joy in recognising and implementing optimisation potentials

You have

• a technical basic education as well as completed higher professional training in purchasing or supply chain management
• at least 3 years of professional experience in strategic purchasing, preferably in a manufacturing industrial company
• profound knowledge in supplier and contract management as well as in supply chain processes
• business fluent German and English skills in spoken and written form

We offer

• a future-oriented and international environment with a lot of personal responsibility
• individual support, training and development opportunities
• home office and flexible working hours that contribute to the balance of private and professional life
• opportunities to shape the future of the company and contribute your own ideas
• flat hierarchies, short decision-making paths
• various other benefits such as travel allowance, extended paternity and maternity leave, contribution to sporting activities and much more

If you feel addressed, please send your complete application documents including a motivation letter via link, QR code or e-mail to the Human Resources department.

We are

As an internationally renowned solution provider, Glutz has combined craftsmanship, technology, design and customer service into secure overall solutions for comfortable access for more than 160 years.
The in-house development and production of locks, fittings and access systems enables seamless solutions around the door and the implementation of individual requirements. The Swiss company based in Solothurn has subsidiaries in Germany, Austria and the UK and employs around 300 people.

Glutz AG, Segetzstrasse 13, CH-4502 Solothurn
Phone +41 32 625 65 20, hr@glutz.com, www.glutz.com

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