Director of Procurement & SCM

• Overall responsibility for purchasing, supply chain, logistics, as well as demand and production planning.
• Strategic advancement of procurement processes.
• Design and adjustment of supplier structures.
• Optimizing inventory management
• Ensuring economical, timely, and sustainable supply to production.
• Optimization of material flow from supplier to customer delivery.
• Leadership and development of teams to enhance performance and collaboration.
• Development and implementation of purchasing strategies to reduce costs and improve quality and supply security.
• Management of central KPI systems and derivation of effective measures.
• Budget planning and responsibility for financial contributions and productivity goals.
• Coordination and close collaboration with management, production, sales, and international stakeholders.
• Initiation and implementation of standardization, digitalization, and optimization projects.
• Escalation management for critical purchasing, delivery, and logistics issues.

• Extensive leadership experience in a comparable management role.
• Experience in purchasing within a manufacturing industrial company.
• Experience in logistics or supply chain management in a manufacturing industrial company.
• Completed technical or commercial education
• Demonstrable success in developing procurement organizations
• Proven success in supplier management.
• Professional experience in operational logistics
• Strong communication skills and visionary leadership qualities.
• Ability to qualify, promote, and develop teams.
• Strong negotiation and assertiveness skills
• Entrepreneurial thinking
• Strong implementation skills and hands-on mentality.
• Organizational talent as well as a desire for design and optimization.
• Strong analytical skills and affinity for KPIs.
• Fluent in German and English.

• Key position with direct reporting line to management.
• High level of creative freedom
• Significant scope for implementation.
• Engage in an internationally successful industrial environment
• Responsibility for a significant organizational unit
• Direct influence on corporate success and value creation
• Collaboration with national stakeholders
• Collaboration with international stakeholders
• Crisis-proof job
• Various benefits
• Company car

The advertising company operates in the Other Manufacturing Industry and is seeking reinforcement at the Graz, Styria location.

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