You manage sourcing and procurement activities, ensuring strong supplier relationships and cost optimization while collaborating with various teams to enhance supply chain operations.
Anforderungen
- •Completed technical or commercial education
- •Professional experience in procurement, ideally technical
- •Confident in using MS Office and SAP R3/S4 Hana
- •Fluent English skills for negotiations
- •Strong communication and negotiation skills
Deine Aufgaben
- •Manage sourcing of drawing and standard parts.
- •Develop sourcing strategies and select suppliers.
- •Negotiate contracts for welded main components.
- •Lead procurement activities in development projects.
- •Focus on cost analysis and coordination with teams.
- •Oversee supplier relationships and conduct audits.
- •Support supplier development and manage RFQs.
- •Analyze supplier markets for cost-saving opportunities.
- •Implement strategies for material availability.
- •Align with R&D and production teams on requirements.
- •Support the Make-or-Buy process for supply chain.
Deine Vorteile
Flexible working hours
Further training opportunities
Corporate health management
Company restaurant with meal subsidy
Job ticket for travel
Employee discounts
Original Beschreibung
# Sourcing Group Lead Buyer (f/m/d)
Lengau, AT
For our production and assembly site in **Lengau**, we are looking for a **Sourcing Group Lead Buyer (m/f/d)** for the welded main components segment.
The Sourcing Group Welded Main Components is a strategically important and growing purchasing segment at PALFINGER. In your role as a Strategic Buyer, you will be responsible for the strategic procurement management in this area. Additionally, you will have a project management & target costing role in procurement for the development process.
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**YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES**
* Manage the sourcing of drawing and standard parts, develop sourcing strategies, select suppliers, and negotiate contracts on a global, regional, or local level for the welded main components segment.
* Lead procurement activities in development and MoB projects, focusing on cost analysis and close coordination with global teams and internal stakeholders.
* Oversee supplier relationships, conduct audits, support supplier development, and manage processes like RFQs, delivery strategies, and supplier phase-in/phase-out activities.
* Analyze supplier markets, identify cost-saving and optimization opportunities, and implement strategies to ensure material availability and process improvements.
* Align with R&D, production, and product line teams to bundle requirements, support the Make-or-Buy process, and ensure smooth supply chain operations.
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**YOUR QUALIFICATIONS**
* You have successfully completed a technical or commercial education (e.g., mechanical engineering apprenticeship/technical college/degree).
* You already have professional experience in procurement, ideally with a technical focus and in an international setting.
* You are confident in using MS Office applications and already have experience working with SAP R3/S4 Hana.
* You have fluent English skills for negotiations and are willing to travel internationally (approximately 25%).
* Your strong communication skills and negotiation talent make you a confident and assertive personality.
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**WHAT WE OFFER**
* Flexible working hours with no core time and possibility to work partly from home
* Further training and international career opportunities
* Corporate health management "PALfit"
* Company restaurant with freshly prepared meals and daily meal subsidy (at the Vienna site: Edenred card)
* Job ticket for travel to and from PALFINGER
* Numerous employee discounts through Corporate Benefits
The minimum gross wage according to the Austrian metal industry collective agreement is EUR 52.197,04 per year. According to experience and qualification, we offer a market-conform overpayment.