Procurement Specialist – Freight Management
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full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Wien • 🇦🇹 Austria
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💰 €54,300 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- As a Specialist, you are responsible for supporting the planning, implementation, and optimisation of ALDI’s freight procurement
- Your tasks include performing research, preparing and managing tenders, and following up on contract negotiations
- You are involved in conducting market analyses to identify cost-saving and efficiency opportunities
- Collaborating with international suppliers and all ALDI SOUTH countries worldwide is part of your role
- You maintain and control records according to deadlines, ensuring that information in all systems is updated and accurate at all times
- You act as contact person for developing existing and building new supplier relationships
- Additionally, you investigate and document existing business processes and propose overarching strategies
- Drafting and editing contracts and presentation documents also belong to your responsibilities
Requirements
- You have several years of professional experience in procurement, ideally within freight, logistics, or supply chain management
- You have completed a university degree or commercial training
- You bring experience in tendering and contracting processes, including working with Transporeon, SAP Transportation Management, and SAP Ariba, as well as collaborating with external suppliers and consultants
- Understanding freight cost structures, logistics networks, and sustainability initiatives within supply chain management is part of your expertise
- You feel comfortable working independently and taking accountability for your results
- You are confident using MS Office
- Fluency in English is essential, and knowledge of German is particularly advantageous
- Attention to detail and a structured mindset is a matter of course for you
- An independent, co-operative and reliable working style sets you apart
Benefits
- 6 weeks of annual leave every year for all
- A range of subsidised childcare support options
- Options to work remotely - from home or anywhere within Austria (up to 13 days per month), and from abroad (up to 30 days per year, selected countries)
- Mobile devices provided to enable flexible working
- Relocation support (including visas/permits, home search and moving allowance)
- Free and subsidised healthy food and drinks provided at work
- Subsidised public transport
- Bike leasing programme to save up to 20% on bike costs to encourage sustainable transport and improve affordability
- Discounts on a wide range of shopping in the categories like fashion, travel, sports and many more
- All the training you need to excel in your role
- Extensive personal and professional development
- High level of responsibility in a diverse and international business environment
- Collaboration with teams across border
- Private health insurance discounts
- Comprehensive wellbeing & (mental) health support
- On-site & online sports with Wellpass Membership
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
procurementtenderingcontractingmarket analysisfreight cost structureslogistics networkssupply chain managementsustainability initiativesMS Officecommercial training
Soft skills
attention to detailstructured mindsetindependent workingco-operative workingreliable workingaccountabilitycollaborationcommunication