Project Buyer

30 January 2026
100%
Permanent position
Villigen PSI

Job summary

Join the Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland's largest research facility. This role offers a meaningful opportunity in a dynamic environment.

Tasks

Lead complex procurement projects for investments and services.
Conduct central procurements, market analysis, and tendering.
Manage supplier relationships and ensure internal customer satisfaction.

Skills

Commercial or technical education, ideally with procurement training.
Project management experience, particularly in investment goods.
Strong negotiation skills and proficiency in German and English.

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About the job

If you are a technically skilled, communicative, and implementation-oriented personality who enjoys working in a meaningful and future-oriented environment, this position could be your next professional challenge.

For the Paul Scherrer Institute, the largest research institute for natural and engineering sciences in Switzerland, we are looking for a committed and curious personality to successfully lead the institute's procurement projects. In this versatile role, you take responsibility for project procurement, maintaining partnership-based supplier relationships, and managing a specialist area from a purchasing perspective. Together with a cooperative, open team, you actively contribute to making the organization's procurement processes efficient, transparent, and sustainable.

Your tasks

Leading complex procurement projects for capital goods and services in collaboration with research and specialist departments
Conducting central procurements including requirements clarification, market analyses, and tenders according to BöB/VöB in German and English
Creating, negotiating, and awarding demanding contracts
Responsibility for all procurements of a defined specialist area
Sustainable and partnership-based collaboration with selected key suppliers
Ensuring high satisfaction of internal customers
Active participation in shaping and further developing procurement processes and standards as well as their digitalization

Your profile

Completed commercial or technical basic training (EFZ), alternatively a technical or business university degree (e.g., electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, industrial engineering)
Ideally, a specialist further education in purchasing (e.g., federally certified purchasing specialist) or several years of professional experience in purchasing, alternatively a strong interest in strategic purchasing
Experience in project business, preferably in the field of capital goods, plant engineering, or complex services
Entrepreneurial thinking, result-oriented action, and the ability to critically question structures and implement innovative solutions
Assertiveness and confident appearance towards internal and external stakeholders
Native German speaker with solid English skills (B2/C1)

We offer

Our institute is based on interdisciplinary, innovative, and dynamic collaboration. In addition to systematic onboarding, you benefit from individual development opportunities and our pronounced continuing education culture. For concerns regarding the optimal balance of work and family or personal interests, we support you with modern employment conditions and on-site facilities.

For professional inquiries, please contact Dominik Suter, Tel. +41 56 310 24 10.

We look forward to receiving your online application by February 15, 2026 for the position of Project Buyer (Index No. 9131-25860).

Please submit your application via the following link, which will take you directly to our partner Procurement: https://zrec.eu/aBCKA?source=CareerSite

Human Resources Management, Mikela Szolansky, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland

www.psi.ch