Head of Purchasing and Inventory Management
Confidential client
Head of Purchasing and Inventory Management
In this position, you will take responsibility for procurement, inventory management, assembly, and the associated quality assurance. The focus is on managing procurement as well as developing processes, supplier relationships, and assembly processes.
Your responsibilities
- Take on operational purchasing responsibility
- Manage strategic purchasing
- Coordinate all purchasing activities
- Enhance supplier relationships
- Search for new qualified suppliers
- Address international sourcing topics systematically
- Implement international sourcing topics
- Negotiate important supplier contracts
- Provide the framework for the team on contract issues
- Lead the assigned areas and teams
- Identify improvement potential in all areas
- Implement cost reduction potential in all areas
- Continuously improve internal processes in assembly
- Structure and optimize assembly processes in internal pre-assembly
- Further develop the SOS theme with a focus on cleanliness, order, and safety
Your profile
- Completed technical education
- Education in mechanical engineering
- Education in mechatronics
- Education in electrical engineering
- Extensive purchasing experience
- Experience in machinery and plant engineering
- Ideally, experience in manufacturing or assembly
- Contract know-how
- Negotiation proficiency
- Confident interaction with suppliers
- Confident interaction with contract partners
- Strong team orientation
- Leadership strength
- Very good German
- Very good English
Benefits
- Responsibility in a leadership position
- Deployment in operational purchasing
- Deployment in strategic purchasing
- Responsibility for inventory management
- Responsibility for the assembly area
- Responsibility for quality assurance
- Comprehensive and broad range of tasks
- Focus with significant cost impact
- Supplier development as part of the role
- International sourcing topics as a field of activity
- Leadership responsibility for assigned areas and teams
- Contribute to improvement and cost reduction potentials
- Continuous development of internal processes
- Continuous development of assembly processes
- Dynamic growth environment
About the company
The advertising company operates in the personnel services sector and is seeking to expand its team at the Central Region of Upper Austria location, Upper Austria.
The client is treated confidentially in this process. You will learn the name during the application process.
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Sophie Moser
Research Consultant
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