Senior Purchasing Manager Projects

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.

Therefore, a successful candidate would be responsible for:

• Project Purchasing Leadership: Drive all procurement activities within assigned projects, ensuring alignment with technical and commodity strategies.
• Supplier Selection & Management: Identify, evaluate, and nominate suppliers for all project phases (A1/A2 samples, prototypes, pilot series, SOP).
• Contract Negotiation: Lead negotiations on commercial terms and conditions, ensuring cost targets and compliance.
• Scheduling & Delivery Assurance: Secure timely delivery of purchased parts, monitor milestones, and manage escalation if needed.
• Stakeholder Communication: Keep internal stakeholders updated on project purchasing status, risks, and decisions.
• Interface Management: Act as the primary link between project teams, commodity managers, and suppliers.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Engage with engineering, quality, logistics, and finance teams for technical alignment and risk mitigation.
• Strategic Inputs: Provide feedback on commodity strategies and participate in cross-divisional initiatives.

Therefore, a successful candidate would have:

Core Qualifications

• Degree in Business Administration, Engineering, or a related field.
• Professional Experience: Several years in technical procurement or project purchasing, ideally in an international environment.
• Language Skills: Fluent English (mandatory), German preferred; additional languages are a plus.
• IT Skills: Proficiency in SAP and MS365 tools (Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, Miro).
• Further: Legal knowledge, Manufacturing expertise.

Key Skills

• Negotiation Power: Ability to lead complex price and contract negotiations independently.
• Project Management: Strong organizational skills for managing multiple projects and deadlines.
• Analytical Thinking: Competence in cost analysis, investment planning, and risk management.
• Communication & Networking: Build and maintain relationships with internal stakeholders and supplier executives – able to work in a team
• Soft Skills: resilience, result orientated

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.