Global Strategic Buyer (m/f/x) Indirect Procurement

AT, Dornbirn

The Zumtobel Group is an international lighting group and a leading supplier of innovative lighting solutions, lighting components and associated services. With its core brands, Zumtobel, Thorn and Tridonic, the Group offers its customers around the world a comprehensive portfolio of products and services.

Your job

In this exciting position you will be responsible for supporting the department in bundling group-wide purchasing volumes and generating cost savings through consolidation and negotiation.

• You collaborate with the Senior Director of Indirect Procurement to improve global market transparency and develop a robust purchasing strategy. Align with stakeholders within Purchasing and other functions to ensure the strategy is well-known and implemented.
• You routinely identify potential savings and consistently implement them. As a result, you continuously develop and sustainably optimize the procurement strategy.
• You monitor the sourcing network dynamics to identify strengths and weaknesses and take necessary actions to optimize the network.
• You act as the main central contact for local Indirect Procurement activities related to assigned responsibilities.
• You are responsible for improving data quality in Indirect Procurement systems (SAP, WPS etc.) through regular data maintenance activities with suppliers.
• We rely on your communication skills when it comes to conducting award and contract negotiations or, if necessary, in escalation handling in the event of delivery and quality problems.

Your profile

• You have successfully completed a business or technical education (Uni / FH / HTL / HAK) and have already gained at least 1-3 years of professional experience within procurement or a related area in an international environment.
• You are an analytical, strong and resilient personality with a strategic mindset and a high level of cost awareness and assertiveness.
• You have excellent language skills in German and English.
• Last but not least, you are a self-driven individual with great communication skills and a passion for strategic procurement and global sourcing.

The Zumtobel Group: a company with many benefits

• Successful, international group with family DNA.
• Varied field of activity with personal responsibility.
• Numerous opportunities for further development in an innovative and empowering company.
• Great team that will support you in any situation.
• Individual options to ensure a healthy work-life balance.
• Extensive benefits for our employees.

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Does this sound like an appealing task to you? Then we look forward to receiving your application!

Legally binding notice: Based on the minimum salary stipulated in the collective agreement of € 57.094,24 /p.a. (for a 38,50-hour working week), the actual salary for this position is based on professional qualifications and experience.

At the Zumtobel Group, we not only understand the power of the visible, but also the invisible. Like light itself, diversity cannot be grasped but it can be perceived. We appreciate the uniqueness of each individual and recognise it as a driver of innovation. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to e.g.: race, colour, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, or disability.