API GmbH

Procurement & Category Specialist

API GmbH

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Baesweiler • Germany

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About the role

  • Operational purchasing and assortment management
  • Responsibility for assortment design: regular analysis, evaluation and optimization of the product portfolio
  • Operational purchasing: requirements assessment, supplier selection, negotiation of terms and conditions, and ensuring optimal product availability
  • Well-founded purchasing recommendations based on market, competitor and trend analyses
  • Support for strategic pricing and operational implementation of pricing strategies
  • Maintenance and optimization of product listings on relevant marketplaces and price comparison portals
  • Close collaboration with the development team to further develop and automate internal procurement tools
  • Identification of opportunities to increase efficiency and implementation of corresponding measures
  • Ensuring consistent and high-quality product data
  • Analysis of assortments and identification of suitable complementary products for targeted expansion

Requirements

  • Successfully completed commercial vocational training or a degree in a business-related field
  • 3–5 years of professional experience in purchasing, ideally in an IT or trading/retail company
  • Proficient in MS Office applications
  • Strong negotiation skills, analytical thinking and organizational talent
  • Independent, structured and results-oriented working style
  • Very good German and good English skills, both written and spoken
  • High affinity for digital processes and automation
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Hard Skills & Tools
operational purchasingassortment managementsupplier selectionnegotiationmarket analysistrend analysispricing strategiesproduct data managementefficiency optimizationproduct portfolio analysis
Soft Skills
negotiation skillsanalytical thinkingorganizational talentindependent workingstructured workingresults-orientedcollaborationcommunication skills
Certifications
commercial vocational trainingdegree in business-related field