Strategic Buyer, Specialist in Public Procurement (100%)
Stadt Winterthur
Winterthur
Key information
- Publication date:01 October 2025
- Workload:100%
- Contract type:Unlimited employment
- Place of work:Winterthur
Customer-oriented, reliable, and quality-conscious: We owe our success to these strengths. As a cross-sector company, we take care of all concerns of our customers regarding electricity, telecommunications, gas, water, district heating, waste disposal, wastewater treatment, and energy contracting – all in accordance with the promise "We offer comfort." Stadtwerk Winterthur offers attractive employment conditions and challenging tasks to its employees.
Learn more? https://stadt.winterthur.ch/
We look forward to your online application.
Your Tasks
Engage as a Strategic Buyer in our Purchasing, Logistics, and Real Estate department. You can expect a motivated team and a diverse range of tasks:- As a competent contact person for the specialist departments, you ensure the correct tendering process during public tenders and prepare the corresponding tender documents.
- You represent purchasing in procurement projects and accompany them from planning to completion. This includes tender advice, supplier evaluation, obtaining offers, order processing, and controlling.
- Assistance and implementation of procurement and supplier strategies
- Optimization of methods and tools for the continuous improvement of procurement processes
- Developing and establishing a binding assortment policy
- Focus on key suppliers and consolidation of demand
- During vacation absences, you support operational purchasing in order processing.
Your Profile
- Technical or commercial training and further education as a purchasing specialist or technical commercial specialist with a federal certificate
- Several years of experience in purchasing in a technical environment
- Experience in handling tenders in public procurement is an advantage; alternatively, willingness to further educate as a specialist in public procurement with a federal certificate
- You are an entrepreneurial-minded personality with high professional competence, aligning your results with quality, economy, and sustainability.
- You possess conceptual thinking as well as a high customer and service orientation and teamwork skills. Your negotiation skills and communication strength distinguish you.
- Very high IT affinity, good user knowledge of MS Office and SAP
What We Offer
- 5 weeks of vacation, an additional week from age 55
- Vacation purchase of up to two weeks with full-time employment
- Driver's license extension to category C (truck) and participation in external training
- 15 days paid paternity leave (100% salary)
- A team that is passionately committed daily to the lighting network. With us, you can take responsibility and benefit from regulated working hours.
Contact
Your questions about the position will be gladly answered from October 20, 2025, by Roland Hofer, Head of Purchasing, Logistics, and Real Estate, phone +41 52 267 60 94.Learn more? https://stadt.winterthur.ch/
We look forward to your online application.