Description
Buyer Junior (software license) vacancy for a globally operating Zurich based company in the financial sector.Your experience/skills:
- 2+ years of professional experience in a Procurement role as a buyer or Sourcing Manager in a fast paced, multi-task, international environment with the ability to work effectively cross border
- 1+ years of experience with Procuring Software licenses, including negotiating key terms, pricing, and negotiating renewals of license entitlements
- Proficiency in MS Excel and PowerPoint as well as the ability to easily learn other standard procurement and demand management tools
- Strong negotiation, analytical and relationship-management skills including influencing, problem resolution and collaboration skills with key internal stakeholders and external vendors
- Ability to analyze markets and gather intelligence on market conditions and supply/demand drivers as well as project management skills
- Languages: English, fluent in written and spoken, proficiency in German would be an advantage
Your tasks:
- Coordinating execution of procurement processes for software purchases while also ensuring continuity of sourcing value and process to respective initiatives throughout the lifecycle
- Managing requisitions and renewals for software contracts
- Building effective and cooperative alliances externally with key vendors and manage directly those vendor relationships from a commercial perspective
- Working collaboratively with internal business partners and key vendors to deliver increasingly high-quality and efficient sourcing services
- Supporting select third-party agreements during the fulfilment phase while also working on commercial-valued and risk-mitigated sourcing
Start: ASAP
Duration: 09MM+
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Ref.Nr.: BH 17319
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