Assistant to the Purchasing Management and Purchasing Department (m/f/d) 80 - 100%

You support the purchasing management and its team in coordinating the international purchasing activities of the Intercoop House & Garden Cooperative. For this purpose, you prepare meeting documents and create presentations and minutes. You organize and monitor appointment processes and coordinate meetings with national and international contacts. To a limited extent, you also negotiate independently with our business partners. You independently and reliably handle any administrative tasks.

Function as the "extended arm" of the purchasing management / CPO

• Independent substantive preparation and follow-up of topics, presentations, meetings, and decisions.
• Independent development of concepts and decision templates for the purchasing management.
• Proactive identification and implementation of optimization potentials in daily business.
• Control and monitoring of ongoing projects in close coordination with the CPO.
• Coordination and communication with national and international business partners at management level.

• Support of the purchasing management and its team in coordinating the international purchasing activities of the Intercoop House & Garden Cooperative.
• Preparation of meeting documents as well as creation of presentations and minutes.
• Organization and monitoring of appointments and meeting processes.
• Coordination of meetings with national and international contacts.
• Independent negotiations with business partners to a limited extent.
• Independent and reliable handling of any administrative tasks.

• Administrative and organizational support of the purchasing management and the purchasing team.
• Requesting offers from suppliers and service providers, partly independently, partly under guidance.
• Support in conducting internal and external working groups, committee meetings, and the annual IC workshop / trade fair appearance.
• General administrative tasks and office organization

• Successfully completed studies or commercial training, ideally with a focus on purchasing, business administration, or comparable.
• Ideally professional experience in the assistance area, preferably in an international purchasing environment.
• Strong independence, initiative, and structured working style.
• Strong communication skills and professional appearance at all levels.
• High resilience and the ability to keep a cool head even in stressful situations.
• Very good knowledge of MS Office (especially PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook).
• Fluent German and very good English skills in spoken and written form; French or other language skills are an advantage.
• Organizational talent with a high degree of discretion and reliability.
• Desire to develop further within the company towards a purchaser role.

The Intercoop House & Garden Cooperative is the leading purchasing organization for retail with a cooperative background in Europe. It has 13 members in 11 European countries. Together, our members operate over 5,000 stores across Europe and have an annual purchasing volume of over 3.0 billion €. Intercoop is headquartered in Biel/Switzerland and has an exclusive agency and agent network worldwide. This ensures our members direct access to suppliers from various regions worldwide. Intercoop bundles about 400 suppliers from 31 countries as a purchasing organization.

To strengthen our team, we are looking for an Assistant to the Purchasing Management and Purchasing Department

Who not only takes on classic assistance tasks but also acts proactively and independently develops topics.

Please send your application with CV, photo, certificates, references, and diplomas with the note "Assistant Purchasing Management/Purchasing Department" to our HR at hr@ic-hg.com.

Further information can be found on our career page: https://intercoophg.com/de/karriere .