Einkäufer (m/w/d) in Kaiserslautern

Job summary
The buyer is located in the Fulfilment Centers (FC) and is the Procurement Representative to the FC. She/He is in charge of the relationship with Stakeholders/Internal Customers (Business Partners/Requesters) at the FC, ensuring site’s requirements are captured & formalized, and being in charge of the Procurement activity to satisfy those needs, either executing Sourcing & Tender processes or making the link with Category Managers teams in Luxembourg. She/He is also acting as a first escalation point for local supplier issues.
Responsibilities:

• Understand the business needs and ensure the requirements are justified, analyzing & making recommendations to the business
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• Build and manage effective local stakeholder (internal customers) relationships, partnering with them to positively influence spending decisions.
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• Work in full compliance with the company Spending & Transaction policy, educating and driving the correct behaviors of business stakeholders.
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• Execute the whole procurement activity, from Sourcing of new suppliers to contractualization
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• Launch and manager Tenders, offers analysis and negotiations with suppliers
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• Be the link between local stakeholders and Category Managers in Luxembourg, ensuring global category strategies are locally implemented and executed.
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• Support implementation and management of Catalogues
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• Look for and propose cost optimization initiatives, diving-deep into contracts, partnering with Category Managers, and working with stakeholders to deliver savings and cost optimizations.
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• Analyze spending patterns to identify savings opportunities and act accordingly
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• Set-up indicators and use them to provide reliable statistics to your team
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• Manage vendors to ensure a high service level in terms of lead time, quality & maintenance, following-up contracts & supplier performance.
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• Ensure Procurement processes & procedures are applied on site - working with the relevant individuals to make improvements where required
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• Be involved, execute and support national and EU-wide procurement projects and initiatives (tenders, cost optimization, sustainability, process improvement… initiatives).