Head of Operational Procurement(m/w/x)

## Your responsibilities * **Leadership and Team Management:** Responsible for the professional and personnel management of operational procurement team (8 employees) including performance management, recruiting, talent management. * **Supplier Coordination:** Expanding and maintaining supplier relationships. Oversee timely placement and tracking of purchase orders to ensure reliable material availability. Collaborate with the strategic sourcing team on supplier performance, delivery reliability, and cost optimization. * **Inventory Management & Warehouse Optimization:** Monitor and improve inventory performance through KPIs. Optimizing the warehouse according to target specifications, including warehouse rotation, monitoring warehouse value, and conducting scrapping actions. * **Forecast Management & Demand Planning:** Responsible for forecast management, including planning materialization for production and spare parts, as well as the phase-in and phase-out of all components. * **Sales & Operations Planning:** Lead the full S&OP process, ensuring effective coordination between demand planning, supply planning, inventory management, and business objectives. Organize and facilitate cross-functional S&OP meetings with all stakeholders (Sales, Operations, Finance, and R&D), including demand reviews, supply reviews, and Executive S&OP. * **Indirect Spend:** Conducting annual supplier negotiations, supplier evaluation and consolidation, negotiating delivery and payment terms, monitoring price and quality requirements, contract management, and achieving savings. * **Process Optimization:** Optimizing, standardizing, and further developing operational procurement processes, workflows and data accuracy, including customs clearance, invoice control, transportation. ## Your skillset * **Preferred engineering background** in the mechanical, industrial, or electrical field * **Further education:** Management, leadership, and/or a technical study program * **Many years of experience:** Operational procurement or supply chain with leadership responsibility * **Language skills:** Fluent in written and spoken German and English * **IT skills:** Very good knowledge of SAP and MS Office (Excel) * **Key competencies:** Strong communication, organizational, and negotiation skills * **Personal attributes:** High degree of initiative, independence, and sense of responsibility; entrepreneurial and strategic thinking mindset * **Work style:** Hands-on mentality and team player ## What we offer * 40 hour week * Flexible working hours * Home Office * Easy access from railway station and highway * Free parking * Innovation, R&D and manufacturing at headquarter * At least 5 weeks holiday * Staff restaurant * Free coffee drinks from espresso to latte macchiato **Important information for all executive search companies, headhunters and HR consultants** The Franke Group does not accept unsolicited support from headhunters and personnel consultants for our career opportunities. Any CV/resume vitae submitted to Franke or its employees by external recruitment agencies without a valid written recruitment agreement related to the position in question shall be deemed the sole property of our company. In the event that a candidate presented by an agency is hired in our company and there is no prior agreement, no fee will be paid.