Description
Strategic Purchaser - Indirect Materials wanted for our Zurich based client in the Government sector.Your experience/skills:
- University degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain / Logistics Management, Engineering, Natural Sciences, or equivalent education
- 5+ years' working experience in strategic procurement or equivalent qualifications
- Sound knowledge with the material groups Marketing, Legal, Professional Services, Finance and Travel
- Ability to adapt quickly to new topics and stakeholders and work independently along with demonstrated entrepreneurial mindset
- Languages: fluent English and German both written and spoken
Your tasks:
- Acting as single point of contact for the functions Marketing, Legal, Professional Services, Finance and Travel
- Conducting and supporting sourcing processes including demand capturing, market screening, RfX drafting, supplier selection as well as negotiations and contracting
- Proposing sourcing strategy options in addition to analysing historical and forecast data to identify value-add opportunities
- Developing cost reduction opportunities along demand, specification and commercial levers and running cross-functional and divisional cost reduction projects in relevant categories
- Managing selected supplier relations and implementing improvement plans as well as leading cross-functional project teams
- Being responsible for the internal consulting spend approval process
Start:
Duration: 03MM+
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Ref.Nr.: BH13423
Does this sound like an interesting and challenging opportunity to you? Then take the next step by sending us your CV as a Word document and a contact telephone number.
Due to work permit restrictions we can unfortunately only consider applications from EU or Swiss citizens as well as current work-permit holders for Switzerland.
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- All administrative questions
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