Aarau
Purchaser: Services & CAPEX
- 05 October 2026
- 80 – 100%
- Permanent position
- German (Fluent), English (Intermediate)
About the job
JURA Materials is the regional solution provider for sustainable construction. The company combines building material production with innovative approaches to the circular economy. With around 800 employees at over 30 locations, JURA Materials today covers the entire value chain – from raw material extraction through the production of cement, aggregates, concrete and surfacing to customised solutions for the recycling and disposal of excavation and construction waste as well as transport services. Since its foundation in 1882, the company has been one of the leading building material producers in Switzerland and has belonged to the international building materials group CRH since 2000.Purchaser: Services & CAPEX
Ready to go the "extra mile"?
There is plenty to do with us
Would you like to take responsibility, sustainably develop procurement processes and work closely as a business partner with our plants, locations and support functions? Then you are exactly right with us. As a Purchaser Services & CAPEX, you take on a key role in the procurement of services and accompany investment projects from tendering to successful implementation.
- You are responsible for defined non-cement procurement categories and companies.
- The planning and execution of tenders and award procedures via SAP Ariba are in your hands.
- You negotiate service, maintenance and framework contracts with suppliers and create sustainable procurement solutions.
- You independently and successfully conduct price and contract negotiations for spot-buy orders outside existing framework agreements.
- You support and accompany CAPEX projects up to CHF 150,000 and ensure professional procurement processing.
- Analysing and reducing maverick buying as well as strengthening purchasing compliance are part of your responsibilities.
- You implement defined savings targets and continuously identify optimisation potentials along the procurement processes.
- As a competent contact person, you advise and train internal stakeholders in procurement processes and purchasing guidelines.
This is how you get involved with us
- You have a commercial or technical basic education with further training in purchasing, for example as a purchasing specialist, CAS/DAS purchasing or comparable.
- You have gained several years of experience in strategic and operational purchasing, ideally in an industrial environment.
- You are very familiar with conducting tenders and award procedures, preferably with SAP Ariba.
- You have sound knowledge in negotiating service, maintenance and framework contracts.
- You bring experience in supporting investment or CAPEX projects.
- You are confident in using SAP, MS Office and digital procurement processes.
- Very good German skills are required. French and/or English skills are advantageous for collaboration.
- You think analytically, work in a structured and independent manner and have a strong affinity for numbers.
- With your service and customer orientation, negotiation skills as well as your communicative and team-oriented manner, you convince different stakeholders and successfully advance joint solutions.
Your benefits
Framework conditions
- At least 5 weeks holiday
- 9 paid public holidays
- Referral bonus
- Generous long-service gifts
- Free parking spaces
- Free drinks
Security, pension and social benefits
- Premiums for non-occupational accident and daily sickness benefits are covered by the company
- Own pension fund with supra-mandatory benefits
- Free work clothes and shoes, including laundry service
Discounts
- Attractive employee discounts
- REKA money
- Fuel (petrol, diesel)
- Building material products
- Good conditions with health insurance companies
- Part-time work possible, depending on function
- Possibility of unpaid leave
- Maternity leave (14 weeks) without salary reduction
- Paternity leave (10 days) without salary reduction
Development opportunities
- Support for further training
- Junior staff development programme
- Interns/expats
All clear?
Wonderful, then we look forward to your application! If you have any questions, Katia Cremer, HR Manager, is happy to assist you at +41 79 910 60 28.
For this position, we invite only candidates who apply directly to us. For this reason, we do not consider applications or enquiries from recruitment agencies. Thank you for your understanding.
JURA Management AG
Zurlindeninsel 1
5001 Aarau
www.juramaterials.ch
