Category Lead Buyer Customer Solutions
AdCode:
15288
Város:
Budapest
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Létesítmény:
Festo AM ( Prod.Ges.)
As a Category Lead Buyer Customer Solutions, you will drive the global sourcing strategy for customer-specific components and suppliers. You will play a key role in securing supplier performance, optimizing costs, managing risks, and ensuring sustainable supply chain excellence in close collaboration with international stakeholders.
Your job:
- Build, manage, and continuously develop a global supplier portfolio within the Customer Solutions area while ensuring alignment with quality, cost, and delivery objectives
- Develop and implement commodity strategies for assigned categories to support business and procurement goals
- Identify, implement, and monitor sustainable cost reduction initiatives to achieve defined savings targets
- Secure long-term supplier and manufacturing capacities in alignment with business requirements and growth plans
- Drive continuous improvement of supplier quality performance in close collaboration with technical and quality experts
- Integrate supplier performance insights into sourcing decisions and commodity strategies
- Lead sourcing decisions and supplier selection processes for assigned commodity groups
- Manage and support cost optimization, transfer, insourcing, and outsourcing projects while ensuring effective knowledge transfer
- Drive and further develop supplier risk management and contract management processes
- Take full purchasing responsibility for assigned components, commodities, and suppliers
- Monitor global procurement markets, industry trends, and supplier developments to identify opportunities and mitigate risks
Your qualification:
- University degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Economics, Supply Chain Management, or a comparable field
- 3-5 years of professional experience in global purchasing, strategic sourcing, supplier management, project management, or supplier negotiations
- Strong knowledge of global procurement markets, supplier relationship management, industrial manufacturing environments, and production technologies
- Experience in developing and implementing commodity strategies and cost optimization initiatives
- Fluent English skills, both written and spoken, German language skills are an advantage
- Proficiency in ERP systems and Microsoft Office applications, knowledge of SAP S/4HANA is an advantage
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills
- Collaborative, proactive, assertive, and solution-oriented mindset with a strong ability to work in international environments
- Willingness to travel internationally up to approximately 20%
What We Offer:
- Competitive compensation and benefits package, including annual bonus, monthly cafeteria allowance, and long-service awards.
- Flexible working arrangements with up to 5 home office days per month.
- Continuous professional development and training opportunities.
- Language learning support.
- On-site fitness center and sports facilities.
- Company restaurant available on-site.
- Secure, covered parking facilities.
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