Strategic Buyer Steel – Lead Buyer Raw Materials
BITO-Lagertechnik Bittmann GmbH
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Meisenheim • 🇩🇪 Germany
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Senior
About the role
- Independently and continuously conduct procurement market analyses and identify potential suppliers
- Perform profitability and TCO analyses; develop and implement the global purchasing and supplier strategy for the steel commodity (raw material)
- Build and expand an international pool of steel suppliers
- Lead targeted, efficient and successful price negotiations covering volumes, prices, delivery dates, delivery terms, cost allocation and guarantees
- Prepare raw material reports and consolidate similar material requirements based on planning data to optimize purchasing conditions
- Drive standardization of materials and processes; develop and optimize processes within the commodity group
- Develop and extend the international steel procurement strategy in close cooperation with internal stakeholders
- Ensure contractual prerequisites and conclude purchasing contracts (framework agreements, etc.)
Requirements
- Completed technician qualification with solid commercial knowledge; a completed technical degree is desirable
- Many years of experience in strategic procurement, ideally in the steel sector or at a steel trader in purchasing or sales of steel (raw material)
- Established network within the steel industry across Europe and Asia
- Resilience, self-motivation and strong self-organization skills
- Strong negotiating skills; reliable, team-oriented and goal-driven
- Independent, conceptual and structured way of working
- Business-fluent English, both written and spoken; additional foreign language skills are a plus
Benefits
- Employee development
- Employee participation
- Job/site security
- Mobile working
- Health management
- Bonus
- Collective agreement benefits
- Canteen
- Attractive compensation
- Retirement provision
- Employee events
- Corporate benefits
- Bicycle leasing
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
procurement market analysisprofitability analysisTCO analysissupplier strategy developmentprice negotiationcontract managementprocess optimizationraw material reportingstrategic procurementsteel commodity knowledge
Soft skills
resilienceself-motivationself-organizationnegotiating skillsteam-orientedgoal-drivenindependent workingconceptual thinkingstructured working
Certifications
technician qualificationtechnical degree