Project Buyer (f/m/div.)

Your contribution to something big:

Team Leadership and People Development

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of seven buyers/category professionals in a global and matrix organization.

• Translate department objectives into clear team priorities, individual responsibilities, and measurable deliverables.

• Plan workload and resources, resolve priority conflicts, and ensure continuity during peaks, absences, or critical escalations.

• Conduct regular team meetings, one-to-ones, target discussions, and structured development conversations.

• Promote accountability, collaboration, respectful communication, and a high-performance culture across regions and functions.

• Ensure adherence to purchasing governance, processes, approval requirements, compliance standards, and RASIC responsibilities.

Operational Project Purchasing and NPI

• Act as Project Buyer for selected electronics development projects and represent commercial purchasing interests in the project team.

• Drive supplier involvement from early design phases through sourcing decision, qualification, industrialization, and series launch.

• Own project purchasing milestones, supplier deliverables, cost targets, and commercial readiness in line with project timing.

• Coordinate RFQs, quotations, sourcing recommendations, negotiation packages, and award decisions with relevant stakeholders.

• Identify and mitigate project risks related to capacity, lead time, tooling, lifecycle, localization, and supply continuity.

• Ensure transparent status reporting and timely escalation of deviations affecting cost, quality, delivery, or launch readiness.

Category, Supplier and Commercial Management

• Guide purchasing activities for the assigned component scope, including passive and active electronic components and distribution channels.

• Align supplier and category strategies across global and regional responsibilities, including tandem cooperation with APAC counterparts.

• Lead or support price, contract, capacity, payment-term, and claim negotiations in line with global targets.

• Drive cost transparency through benchmarking, cost breakdowns, design-to-cost, and value-engineering measures.

• Monitor supplier performance and coordinate corrective actions or escalations with quality, logistics, engineering, and plants.

• Support dual sourcing, localization, resilience, and lifecycle strategies for critical electronic components.

Cross-Functional and Global Coordination

• Act as the interface between Purchasing, R&D;, Quality, Logistics, Controlling, manufacturing plants, and suppliers.

• Coordinate with Global Category Managers, Regional Category Managers, and buyers to ensure clear ownership and consistent supplier communication.

• Prepare concise management updates, decision proposals, and escalation summaries with clear business impact and required actions.

• Contribute to continuous improvement of purchasing processes, standards, and cross-regional ways of working.

Function: Engineering
Experience Level: Associate