Head of Purchasing
Confidential client
Head of Purchasing
You take on overall responsibility for direct purchasing, including Supplier Quality Assurance, and manage strategic as well as operational procurement processes. In doing so, you lead and develop the purchasing team and coordinate international supplier management.
Your responsibilities
- Overall responsibility for direct purchasing (strategic)
- Management of operational purchasing processes
- Execution of project-related procurements
- Responsibility for Supplier Quality Assurance (SQA)
- Leadership of the purchasing team
- Development of purchasing team employees
- Leadership and coordination of team leaders
- Selection of international suppliers
- Development of international suppliers
- Consolidation of suppliers
- Procurement planning for raw and auxiliary materials
- Procurement planning for purchased parts
- Coordination of price and terms negotiations for framework agreements
- Coordination of price and terms negotiations for individual orders
- Cost optimization initiatives
Your profile
- Ideally combined technical-economic education (e.g., industrial engineer)
- Several years of professional purchasing experience
- Several years of leadership experience in purchasing
- Experience in an international industrial environment (preferred)
- Persuasive management personality
- Confident demeanor
- Inspiring leadership personality
- Strong organizational skills
- Strategic acumen
- Cooperative leadership style
- Reliable leadership style
- Long-term focused leadership style
- Strong communication skills in interactions with management, suppliers, and employees
- Assertiveness in interactions with management, suppliers, and employees
- Negotiable German proficiency
Benefits
- Permanent position
- Annual gross salary starting at €110,000
- Salary dependent on professional qualification
- Salary dependent on professional experience
- Company car included
- Position with an international focus
- Leadership responsibility in purchasing
- Opportunity to implement cost optimization initiatives
- Opportunity to implement inventory optimization initiatives
- Area of responsibility includes trade fair presence and market observation
About the company
The advertising company operates in the personnel services sector and is looking to strengthen its team at the Salzburg location.
The client is treated confidentially in this process. You will learn the name during the application process.
Your contact person

Elisabeth Leitner
Senior Recruitment Consultant
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