Senior Purchasing Manager Plastics

Join Jungheinrich in a working environment where you can make a big difference! With your knowledge and drive, as a team player you will make an important contribution to ensure that we as a company continue to be among the global leaders in our industry. Working side by side with colleagues who enjoy bold ideas and in a family environment that offers you every opportunity to reconcile your professional and private goals.

Your main responsibilities:

• Analysis, assessment, audits and observation of suppliers, development of supplier's strategies on the basis of the group-wide demand analysis and choice of the suppliers incl. contract creation, contract negotiations and end within the drawing right;
• Sound knowledge of the plastic injection molding manufacturing process;
• Sound knowledge of materials (granulates);
• Purchasing of prototype components;
• Knowledge of component calculations, dealing with cost breakdowns;
• Definition and pursuit of measures for the supplier`s development and supplier`s  qualification as well as optimization of the supplier`s portfolio on the basis of the supplier`s judgement and supplier`s classification;
• Project management with cross-functional teams;
• Control of the conversion of defined measures;
• Perception of the duties relevant for purchase within the Controlling.

Therefore, a successful candidate would have:

• Concluded University study Uni/FH/TU/TH (economic engineering);
• Several years` work experience in Procurement departments with international adjustment;
• Knowledge about the international markets (BCC, LCC, ETC.), suppliers, technologies, production processes and cost structures, and in special Eastern Europe;
• Material knowledge;
• Foreign linguistic knowledge (English and German - nice to have);
• Several years` experience in the global Sourcing;
• Legal knowledge, esp. Civil Code, product liability HCB and law of contract;
• Knowledge of the producing and calculation procedures of the sopping area;
• Sound SAP knowledge (MM, FICO);
• Office MS knowledge.

Jungheinrich was founded in 1953 in Hamburg by Dr. Friedrich Jungheinrich as a family business. Today, we are one of the world's leading intralogistics companies with a unique product portfolio: from conventional industrial trucks to fully automated solutions intralogistics companies. Headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, Jungheinrich is represented by its own direct sales companies in 41 countries and by partner companies in around 80 other countries around the world, and employs more than 19,000 people internationally.

We look forward to receiving your online application.

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At Jungheinrich, we value inclusion and diversity and practice equity to create equal opportunities for all. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, ethnic background, color, religious affiliation, union affiliation, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, nationality, genetics and health or disability.